OpenLNS Server License Guide 078-0498-01A
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Table of Contents Table of Contents ............................................................................................ iii Preface ...................................................................................................iv Purpose ........................................................................................................... v Audience .......................................................................................................... v System Requirements ............
Preface The OpenLNS Server network operating system allows LONWORKS network tools to interoperate with one another and interact with the managed LONWORKS network. OpenLNS brings the power of client-server architecture and object-oriented component-based software into control networks. This enables OpenLNS tools to work together to install, maintain, monitor, and control LONWORKS networks.
Purpose This guide explains how to obtain and activate a license for the OpenLNS Server product. Audience This guide is intended for system designers and integrators using OpenLNS Server. System Requirements System requirements for running the OpenLNS Server are as follows: Microsoft Windows® 8 (64-bit and 32-bit), Windows 7 (64-bit and 32-bit), Windows Server 2008 SR2 64-bit, Windows Vista® with Service Pack (SP) 1, or Windows XP with SP3 (32-bit). 500 MHz processor or faster.
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1 Installing an OpenLNS Server This chapter provides the information to install your OpenLNS Server.
Downloading the OpenLNS Server Echelon’s OpenLNS Server is available from the downloads tab of the OpenLNS Web page at http://www.echelon.com/products/tools/integration/openlns-server. The OpenLNS Server is included with other products, including the OpenLNS Commissioning Tool. Once you download your OpenLNS Server product from the Echelon Web site you can install and activate them as described in the next section.
1. Open the Echelon License Wizard. Click Start, click Programs, point to Echelon License Wizard, and then click License Wizard. The Echelon License Wizard opens. Click Next. 2. The Step 1: What would you like to do? dialog opens. 3. To activate your OpenLNS software using the over the Internet or via e-mail, click Activate Product Licenses and then click Next.
4. If your computer is online, the Step 2: What is Your Account Information dialog opens. Complete the following steps to activate your software (if your computer is still offline, proceed to step 5): a. Enter your account information and/or your OpenLNS Server activation key, and then click Next. b. The Step 3: Which License Would You Like to Activate? dialog opens. c. Select Activate from the Action list for OpenLNS Server, and then click Next. d.
6. The Step 3: Where Would You Like to Save Your License Requests? dialog opens. 7. In the Request File Name property, enter a full path where a license request file (.elwrq extension) is to be saved, or click Browse, specify the directory where the license request file is to be saved, and then enter a name for the file.
9. Click Send Request to Echelon to e-mail the license request file to Echelon at activation@echelon.com. Echelon will send you an e-mail message with a license response (.elwrs extension) file. For faster activation, copy the license request file to an Internet-connected computer with the License Wizard installed on it and importing it into the License Wizard. The License Wizard creates the license response file, which you can then copy to the original computer. 10. Import the license response (.
c. The Import License Request or Response File dialog opens. In the File Name property, enter the full path of the license response file (.elwrs extension), or click Browse and then select the file. Click Next. d. The Check License Response File dialog opens. Confirm that the Echelon product licenses in the license response file are the ones you want to activate. Click Next. The License Server installs and activates the licenses in the license response file. e.
11. Click Exit to close the License Wizard.
2 Transferring the OpenLNS Server Licenses Your OpenLNS Server license can be moved from one computer to another. This chapter gives you the steps to transfer a license.
Transferring OpenLNS Server Licenses You can transfer your OpenLNS Server license (and, if you purchased OpenLNS CT, that license) from one computer to another using the Echelon License Wizard. Transferring your license lets you upgrade or switch your OpenLNS Server or OpenLNS CT computer without losing your license. You cannot use the License Wizard to install one license on multiple computers. To transfer your license, follow these steps: 1. On the source computer, return the OpenLNS license: a.
You can select the Remember Me on this Computer check box to preserve your login credentials. This check box is selected by default, which means that your credentials will automatically be entered the next time you start the License Wizard. If your computer does not have an Internet connection, click Work Offline, and then create a license request file (.elwrq extension) in the Step 4: Where Would You Like to Save Your License Requests dialog.
2. 18 Install OpenLNS Server (and, if included, OpenLNS CT) on the target computer following the steps described earlier in this document. In the Customer Information window, enter the activation key you returned in step 1.
3 Recovering an OpenLNS Server License This chapter provides the steps to recover your OpenLNS Server license.
Recovering OpenLNS Server Licenses You can recover a license that you lost because of hardware failure, hardware changes, or a BIOS change on your computer. WARNING: Do not use the same Activation Key to create a license on more than one PC. If you use the same key to activate the OpenLNS Server on multiple computers, the licenses will be deactivated on the old PC when the Echelon License Server detects the duplicate activations. To recover your license, follow these steps: 20 1.
3. The advanced tasks are now added to the dialog. 4. Click Recover Licenses Lost on an Inaccessible Computer, and then click Next. The Step 2: What is your account information? Wizard dialog appears.
5. 22 Enter your Echelon ID and Password, and then click Next. The Step 3: Which license would you like to recover? dialog now appears in the License Wizard.
6. Select Recover under Action for each of the licenses to be recovered. This option will only be available for licenses that you have previously activated.
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