Licensing for Industrial Graphics Applications in a Web Browser

You need a valid Industrial Graphics Web Server license to login and view application graphics from a web browser. Licensing also extends to hosting application graphics on external websites. For detailed information on licensing, see AVEVA Enterprise Licensing.

Acquiring the license is a two-stage process. After the Web Server starts up, it will first authenticate the user and then determine the user’s authorization.

• Authentication

  The Industrial Graphics Server will verify that a Web Client user is part of a domain group associated with the "Industrial Graphics Users" Security Role. See Configure User Access for an Industrial Graphics Web Client.

  If you add a new user to the group, the new user must log off and log in again for the change to take effect.

• Authorization

  After a user is authenticated, the web server will attempt to acquire a license. If one is not available, then the web client will operate in a Single Session Mode.

If the Web Server has acquired a valid license but did not renew it, the Web Client will be in Grace Period mode. A notification message will be displayed in the notification page. The message will be logged every time Web Client unsuccessfully attempts to renew the license.

Note: If the Industrial Graphics Server is already running when a license becomes available, it will not be able to acquire the license until after you have restarted the AVEVA Industrial Graphics Service in the Windows Component Services console.

If the Industrial Graphics Server is shutdown, it will release all the licenses it has acquired regardless of the number of client sessions and the current state of the license. All web client sessions will also be terminated immediately.