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00 Solutions from Rockwell Software. This family of products has been developed to operate on Microsoft Windows. Supporting the Allen- Bradley. FTActivation replaces the old Floppy Disk activation (EVRSI.sys) which was inherited from ICOM after they were purchased in the mid-nineties. The FactoryTalk Activation Manager (formerly the FactoryTalk Activation Tool) which comes with Rockwell software that uses FTActivation has a wizard to help.
No notes for slide• • • • There are many customers today with thousands of floppy disks in their closet and have no idea what they have or what they are currently using. How To Install Solid Subframe Bushings S13 240sx. FactoryTalk Activation delivery does not require you to manage any floppy disks. The activation file on your machine is a digitally signed plain text file. Factory talk activation customer • 1. Copyright © 2008 Rockwell Automation, Inc. All rights reserved.
FactoryTalk Activation Danius Silgalis, Marketing Manager November 2008 • Copyright © 2008 Rockwell Automation, Inc. All rights reserved. Benefits of New FactoryTalk Activation 2.
What is FactoryTalk Activation? Commercial Literature & Tools 4. Advanced Topics • Copyright © 2008 Rockwell Automation, Inc. All rights reserved. 3 Benefits of FactoryTalk Activation • Software Based Activations • Improve Software Asset Utilization • Simplified Software Management • Centralized License Management Console • Better model for multiple workstation environments • Reduced software costs • Provides ability to view FactoryTalk Diagnostics via the Event Viewer • Grace Period Support • Web Based Rehost (VIDEO available) • End-user Options File (VIDEO available) • Copyright © 2008 Rockwell Automation, Inc.
All rights reserved. 4 Software Based Activations • FactoryTalk Activations are delivered electronically; therefore, no more lost disks.
– Remove dependence on physical media (3 ½ inch floppy) • Floppy drives are difficult to come by and now optional on laptops • All activations reside on an Activation Server, and all activations can and should be backed up. • Copyright © 2008 Rockwell Automation, Inc. All rights reserved. 5 Improve Software Asset Utilization • Multiple users can connect over a network to a centralized computer running the FactoryTalk Activation Server to allow a single software activation to be shared easily among many users. FactoryTalk Activation Client #1 FactoryTalk Activation Server FactoryTalk Activation Client #2 • Copyright © 2008 Rockwell Automation, Inc.
All rights reserved. 6 Improve Software Asset Utilization • Allows the ability to easily share licenses among various departments, thereby cutting costs by eliminating unused license purchases @DEPT_A @DEPT_B @DEPT_A @DEPT_B DEPT_A LIC_1 LIC_2 LIC_3 DEPT_A LIC_1 LIC_2 LIC_3 DEPT_B LIC_1 LIC_2 LIC_3 DEPT_B LIC_1 LIC_2 LIC_3 LIC_1 LIC_1 DEPARTMENT A DEPARTMENT BLIC_1 is not available on @DEPT_A • Copyright © 2008 Rockwell Automation, Inc. All rights reserved.
7 Simplified Software Management • Improves License Administration allowing one network administrator to manage all servers and licenses. FactoryTalk Activation Server FactoryTalk Activation Client #1 FactoryTalk Activation Client #1 • Copyright © 2008 Rockwell Automation, Inc. All rights reserved. 8 Centralized License Management Console • Provides the license administrator and all users a single console view for software asset management: License availability License usageActivation expiration dates Hosting serversBorrowed ActivationsAll FactoryTalk Activations visible from single console across the enterprise. • Copyright © 2008 Rockwell Automation, Inc. All rights reserved. 9 Easier Support of Multiple Workstations (Confidential – For Internal Use Only) Copyright © 2008 Rockwell Automation, Inc.
All rights reserved. 9 EVRSI (old) • A media disk was used to distribute activations to each computer. • In a distributed environment, a mapped drive had to be setup to share licenses FactoryTalk Activation (new) • With a Centralized License Console FactoryTalk Activation more easily supports distributed or multiple workstation environments • Copyright © 2008 Rockwell Automation, Inc.
All rights reserved. 10 FactoryTalk Diagnostics via Event Viewer • Ability to track FactoryTalk Activation diagnostics via the Event Viewer • Copyright © 2008 Rockwell Automation, Inc. All rights reserved. 11 Grace Period Support!!! • If an activation can’t be located, this period allows the software to run normally for up to 7 days. • Introduced (CPR9 products and later) – This benefit exclusive to FactoryTalk Activation – Not available with FactoryTalk Activation products prior to CPR9 • Activations are checked when the software is launched – IMPORTANT NOTE: If an activation isn’t found in 7 days, the application will continue to run until a power cycle or reboot is done to the computer and the software is relaunched.
• Copyright © 2008 Rockwell Automation, Inc. All rights reserved. 12 How Does Grace Period Work? • If an activation is not found, the 7-day grace period clock starts. • During this period, valid activations are rechecked every 4 hours, and the user receives notifications. • As soon as an activation is found, the 7- day grace period clock stops and is reset, 4 hour rechecking stops, and software starts and runs normally.
– Since the 7-day grace period clock resets, the grace period can be reused. • If grace period expires, products that support a demo mode may run in demo after 7 days. • Copyright © 2008 Rockwell Automation, Inc. All rights reserved. 13 RSLogix 5000 – Grace Period!!! • IMPORTANT: Be sure to enter the correct serial number during the install of RSLogix 5000. • Failure to enter valid serial number means RSLogix 5000 will be restricted to Service Edition functionality while running within a grace period.
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14 What is FactoryTalk Activation? • Technology purchased from Acresso Software – Formerly Macrovision - called FlexLM (now FlexNet Publisher) – Used by many companies (IBM / Rational, Adobe, Autodesk, etc.) • Software-based activation management system: – Based on digitally-signed plain text Activation file – Can’t be forged or changed Replacement for EVRSI Disk-Based Activation FactoryTalk Activation File Implementation Started in April 2004 • Copyright © 2008 Rockwell Automation, Inc.
All rights reserved. 15 FactoryTalk Activation Overview • All FactoryTalk branded products (and most RS branded products) now support FactoryTalk Activation (30+ products have adopted) – Low volume products supported it 4 years ago, high volume products added last year – Multi-million $ RA investment in product integration and business system infrastructure • EVRSI disks no longer delivered with products but products still support it – Existing customers (in support) continue to use it with the latest software – Customers migrating at about 1000 serial numbers / month • Copyright © 2008 Rockwell Automation, Inc. All rights reserved.
16 Activation File – What is it?