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Product Release Letter

AVEVA Licensing System 1.0 (Win32)
Full Release 30363
Windows Server 2008, 2003; Windows 7, Vista, XP
This letter introduces and describes this release, which is supported on the indicated platform(s).

This Release Contains

A release of AVEVA Licensing System 1.0 that consists of the RMS license server, a new Flex
license server and supporting documents and tools. This version of AVEVA Licensing is designed
to replace the AVEVA Flexman5.2 license server so that there are minimal changes for clients
using AVEVA Everything3D™ alongside earlier AVEVA products.

The components installable from this release are as follows:

Version
Component Name
Number
lservnt.exe (RMS License Server) 8.5
Wlmadmin.exe (RMS Administration Tool) 8.5
RMS System Administration Guide 8.5
cadcentre.exe 6.0

Please do not attempt to run this product on the same server as AVEVA Flexman 5.2,
running an older cadcentre.exe daemon, or any earlier releases of AVEVA Licensing (RMS
License Server). Before installing it, stop and remove them – you can save any old license
files for emergency rollback recovery.

This version of AVEVA licensing WILL work alongside any other RMS servers for example
AVEVA laser modeller; it WILL also work alongside any other software FlexLM servers for
example TribonLS 4.1.

It is NOT POSSIBLE to combine another RMS product’s license keys with this RMS server.
It is NOT POSSIBLE to combine another Flex product’s license keys with this Flex server.

For further information please contact your local AVEVA support office, which can be found at
http://www.aveva.com/products/support/support.html

This document has been prepared and approved by the following:

Job Title Name
Foundations Manager Bridget Langridge,James Bidwell
VP product Support and Training. Martin Bain

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Prerequisite for this release - operating system:
Minimum Supported 32bit O/S Version Windows XP SP3 and SP2, Windows Server 2003
Windows Vista Enterprise and Business Editions
Maximum Supported 32bit O/S Version Windows Server 2008 SP2
Windows 7 Professional and Enterprise Editions
Maximum Supported 64bit O/S Version Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Windows 7 SP1 Professional and Enterprise Editions

Please note that recommended/supported hardware and software configurations are constantly subject to review, so
please consult the AVEVA support web pages for the latest recommendations.

To Install product release:

The Licensing System is simply installed using the setup.exe file. Once installed, full details of
configuration are given in the AVEVA Licensing System User Guide, which can be found using
Start > All Programs > AVEVA > Licensing System. The summary below may be helpful.

How To Obtain A License File (locking Criteria)

To ensure you have correct license server locking criteria, run the echoid application via the
AVEVA-locking.bat file found in the RMS\Tools folder installed with this release.

Alternatively, it can be downloaded from the AVEVA Support site: download the ServerInfo.zip file,
extract the program and .bat file from the .zip file, and run it on your server.

echoid will create a file (AVEVA-Server-computername-info.txt) with your machine’s locking data
for your license server. Please attach that file into the license request email.

The text below is an example output from an AVEVA-Server-info.txt file :-

Sentinel RMS Development Kit 8.5.3.0020 Host Locking Code Information Utility
Copyright (C) 2012 SafeNet, Inc.

IP address : 10.0.150.17
Disk ID : 0x884BA25A
Host name : UKCAMDxxxx
Ethernet address[1] : 18-A9-05-C2-37-21
Hard Disk Serial[1] : 9VMC5AEK
CPU Info String : GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3520 @ 2.67GHz 6 10 5
UUID : BD5E286E-30D0-11DF-BBDA-05C2372118A9

Locking Code 1 [1] : 381E-*17K YRQD S5MZ 78EC

---------------------------------------------------------------------

Ethernet address[1] : 18-A9-05-C2-37-21

Hard Disk Serial[2] : 9VMC5A07

Locking Code 1 [2] : 381E-*195 M6LA JKJG 7RDN

---------------------------------------------------------------------

By return you will be sent a license file configured for your system for your applications. Please
save this file in C:\AVEVA\download\myARMSlicense.xml

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DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE PRIOR TO INSTALLING.

How To Install A License File:

Run the AVEVA License System Console, this is found under :-

START>All Programs> AVEVA>Licensing System>
AVEVA License System Console

See screen shot:

Note – This Console will control both AVEVA RMS and AVEVA Flex license systems.

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To install your license file, on the Licenses tab, Browse to your saved license.xml file.

If the license locking criteria is OK and the license has installed correctly, you will get a notification
panel like this.

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Starting And Stopping The RMS License Server

To check server is running go back to Query/Configure tab and action [Query Servers] button.

If one part of the license system is not running, check inside the server log file for any reasons
why it has not started. If you want you can just start individually that part of the server by starting
the License services created by the install. See Services created in AVEVA License System
Overview, further down this document.

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To enable a client product to see the ARMS server:
Run the ALSClientConfigTool.exe and configure either the individual users or machines
To the license server , the default ALS servers port is 4545.

For your clients change this example of the

Hostname (ukcamd3903) to your license
server Host Name that was in the :-
AVEVA-Server-info.txt file.

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AVEVA License System Overview.
The AVEVA license System Console, stops and starts two License manager services, which have
been defined during the install. These can be manually stopped and restarted via Services.

Sentinel RMS License Manager _AVEVA

AVEVA DLS Flex Server

When you install a license .xml file, it is split out into three separate parts.
The two main parts are the RMS license server file :-
AVEVA\AVEVA Licensing System\RMS\lservrc
and the Flex license server file :-
AVEVA\AVEVA Licensing System\Flex\licenses.lic

The third part is a product mapping file.

Both license services must be up and running for ALL AVEVA products to work.

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AVEVA products secured via flexman.
When an older AVEVA product which is secured via Flexlm runs it talks to the Cadcentre.exe
daemon via the default TCP port no 744 (which can be changed via the SERVER line in the
licenses.lic file) The Cadcentre.exe daemon in turn asks the Flex lmgrd.exe if it has a license key
to run. As this is a dual license system, the lmgrd.exe then asks the RMS server via the default
UDP port No. 4545 if it also has the same key. Only if both systems have the same keys will it
return the OK to the product to run. The UDP 4545 port can be changed for RMS via the AVEVA
License System Console.

AVEVA products secured via AVEVA Licensing System (RMS)

AVEVA Everything3D™ 1.1 is one of the first AVEVA products to be secured via RMS.
When this runs it talks directly to the RMS server via the UDP port no 4545.
It does not rely on Flex at all.
So eventually as AVEVA’s old and new products are built with RMS, it will be possible to turn off
the flex part of the AVEVA Licensing.

For more information, please refer to the manuals installed with this release.

PRODUCT QUALITY STATEMENT

The development, maintenance and testing of AVEVA Solutions’ software products is carried out
in accordance with the company’s KEYSTONE lifecycle processes and this document includes a
summary of the testing carried out on this release and a list of significant defects known to exist at
the time of release.

Development Testing
Developers have carried out unit testing of each enhancement and/or fix in the development
environment to verify that any new functionality has been correctly implemented and identified
defects have been corrected.

Regression tests have been run in the development environment to verify that enhancements
and/or fixes have not adversely affected the integrity of the product.

System Testing
Independent system testing has been carried out on the product, as released, to verify that it
installs correctly in all supported configurations and that product functionality operates as
intended, subject to a known exceptions listed below.

Acceptance Testing
This document has been prepared before Acceptance Testing. This product release is subject to
completion of acceptance testing by AVEVA’s Group Solutions Centre.

Any exceptions found during Acceptance Testing or after release will be reported in the Product
Release Latest Update Note on AVEVA's support web site
http://downloads.aveva.com/30363/w30363.pdf.

Exceptions – Significant Defects And Recommended Workarounds

For the latest list of exceptions and other updates, please see the Product Release Latest Update
Note on AVEVA's support web site http://downloads.aveva.com/30363/w30363.pdf.

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