License Manager
License Manager benefits and background
To date, new control functions or maximum extensions to controllers required new hardware. At OEMs or eventually at OEM customers this results in variants to inventories.
Functions that can be activated in the license model include OPC-UA, smartHMIapi, or additional Modbus interfaces. Additional functions are planned in the near term.
Data sheets on functionality or controllers detail which functions are available in a matrix of controller types (e.g. C600) / firmware (BSP).
Climatix IC supports two application types
The Climatix IC License Manager can generate license keys to activate controller functions. Climatix IC supports two application scenarios:
- Use of Climatix IC exclusively to generate license keys:
- You are granted access to tenant "Siemens Licenses".
- For operation, you receive a user with the administrator role "License Manager".
- Licenses created by this user cannot be viewed by other users nor can it be transferred in any form (not even by Siemens). As a consequence, use a login name that is a generic (i.e. impersonal) e-mail address associated with your company.
- The Climatix IC user interface is tailored to license generation.
- Online documentation, tailored to this use case is available at 'Footer > Support'.
- Use of the License Manager in addition to Climatix IC core functions:
- Your existing tenant can also create license keys.
- An existing Tenant Administrator is also granted the administrator role "License Manager".
- Licenses created by this user cannot be viewed by other users nor can it be transferred in any form (not even by Siemens).
- The familiar Climatix IC user interface is extended in the Administration menu by the "License Manager" function. The online documentation includes the new topic.
Acquire controller licenses / Start with License Manager
- Non-Climatix IC customers use the tenant "Siemens Licenses".
- The function can be enabled upon request for Climatix IC customers.
- Each license/license packet has its own order number.
- Please contact your local Siemens representative for the aforementioned scenarios.
The following procedure consists of three steps:
- Receipt of e-mail with an Activation ID.
- Creation of license with the License Manager in Climatix IC.
- Transfer the generated license to the controller.