Hosting Siemens Licenses on a Remote Server (Automation License Manager)
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In this video, we show
In this video, we show you how to set up Siemens’s automation software licenses on a remote server with Automation License Manager. This allows you to manage and transfer floating licenses online for TIA Portal, STEP 7, etc., eliminating the need for a USB. We’re using an Amazon Web Services (AWS) r4.large EC2 instance to host our remote server, and we’ve connected that to our local PC network using OpenVPN.
Questions? Let us know in the comments!
Get in touch with our team of automation experts at https://www.outlierautomation.com/
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00:35 Installing ALM on the remote server
02:21 Configuring ALM on the remote server
03:09 Firewall Settings
05:04 Configuring ALM on the local PC
05:48 Checking network connection to remote server
06:18 Transferring the license to the remote server
07:13 Verify the Transfer
#siemens #automation #simatic #alm #automationlicensemanager #tiaportal #plc #programmablelogiccontroller
Installing ALM on the remote server
- The first thing we’ll do is install ALM on the remote server.
- I’ve already used Windows’ remote desktop to remote into my remote server and I’m just going to open Chrome and search “siemens automation license manager” to get to Siemens’ download.
- As I scroll down, I can find the “.exe” executable for version 6 which is the latest version at the time of this video
- After, signing in, the download will start and I’ll save it to my “Downloads” folder.
- By clicking here I can run the executable straight from Chrome
- I’ll hit next to start the installation and I’ll have the installer delete the extracted files once it finishes
- Hitting next again we’re just going to click through this whole process
Configuring ALM on the remote server
- So now that we have the license manager installed on the remote server, there are a few settings we need to make so that it can communicate with our local installation
- Go to File - Settings and under the “Connection” tab check “Allow remote connections”.
- The service needs to be restarted now so we’ll check this box and hit ok
- If we navigate back to settings we also want to make sure that this box is not checked
Firewall Settings
- I need to set some inbound firewall rules to allow my local instance to get through to the server. You might not need to do this if you’re not using a VPN, but if you’re having issues getting the two ALMs connected, you might want to try this out.
- From the start menu, I’m opening up Windows Firewall with Advanced Security and we’re going to be adding two inbound rules
- The first will be allowing the ALM program through so I browse to this file, select it, and allow it to communicate through all channels
- I’ll add the port that I know ALM is using. So if I go back to ALM settings we see it’s using port 4410 so I’ll enter that here and use the same settings as the last rule
- With this configuration done I’m going to restart my remote server just to make sure that all those settings can take effect
Configuring ALM on the local PC
- Now we’re going to go through the exact same configuration steps on our local PC as we did on the remote server
- Just want to verify again that we are allowing remote use of license keys
- Now we can restart this PC
Checking network connection to remote server
- I want to make sure that my local PC can reach the remote server over the network now so I’m going to open up command prompt and use the ping command to test the connection to the remote server’s IP address
- I can see here I’m getting a response
Transferring the license to the remote server
- By selecting my Local Disk C here I can see all the licenses I have stored on this computer
- I’m going to select them all by clicking and drawing a box, then choose “License Key” - “Transfer”
- Then I’ll choose “Network” and enter the IP address of my remote server.
- And we can see it has found the remote server. It wants to put the licenses on its C drive which works for me so I’ll hit OK and the transfer begins!
- Now we can see that the licenses are gone from my local C drive, and here they are on the remote server
Verify the Transfer
- If I just drill down into this folder structure I can right click on the license itself, click “Check”, and see that the license registers as OK
- Now I’m going to open up TIA Portal, then open a test project. Then I’ll just open any program block so that Portal will check with the manager to see if it’s licensed
- Now if I go back to the manager, right click and select “Check” we can see that the license is OK and in use
- To see even more detail, I can navigate to “View” - “Log” to see a record of all the actions taken on the manager
- On the left, I can filter by number of entries, time ranges, or by the action taken
- On the right, I can see all the details about the individual entries, including the product, the action taken, and the user who initiated the action
Questions? Let us know in the comments!
Get in touch with our team of automation experts at https://www.outlierautomation.com/
More videos from Siemens: siemens
00:35 Installing ALM on the remote server
02:21 Configuring ALM on the remote server
03:09 Firewall Settings
05:04 Configuring ALM on the local PC
05:48 Checking network connection to remote server
06:18 Transferring the license to the remote server
07:13 Verify the Transfer
#siemens #automation #simatic #alm #automationlicensemanager #tiaportal #plc #programmablelogiccontroller
Installing ALM on the remote server
- The first thing we’ll do is install ALM on the remote server.
- I’ve already used Windows’ remote desktop to remote into my remote server and I’m just going to open Chrome and search “siemens automation license manager” to get to Siemens’ download.
- As I scroll down, I can find the “.exe” executable for version 6 which is the latest version at the time of this video
- After, signing in, the download will start and I’ll save it to my “Downloads” folder.
- By clicking here I can run the executable straight from Chrome
- I’ll hit next to start the installation and I’ll have the installer delete the extracted files once it finishes
- Hitting next again we’re just going to click through this whole process
Configuring ALM on the remote server
- So now that we have the license manager installed on the remote server, there are a few settings we need to make so that it can communicate with our local installation
- Go to File - Settings and under the “Connection” tab check “Allow remote connections”.
- The service needs to be restarted now so we’ll check this box and hit ok
- If we navigate back to settings we also want to make sure that this box is not checked
Firewall Settings
- I need to set some inbound firewall rules to allow my local instance to get through to the server. You might not need to do this if you’re not using a VPN, but if you’re having issues getting the two ALMs connected, you might want to try this out.
- From the start menu, I’m opening up Windows Firewall with Advanced Security and we’re going to be adding two inbound rules
- The first will be allowing the ALM program through so I browse to this file, select it, and allow it to communicate through all channels
- I’ll add the port that I know ALM is using. So if I go back to ALM settings we see it’s using port 4410 so I’ll enter that here and use the same settings as the last rule
- With this configuration done I’m going to restart my remote server just to make sure that all those settings can take effect
Configuring ALM on the local PC
- Now we’re going to go through the exact same configuration steps on our local PC as we did on the remote server
- Just want to verify again that we are allowing remote use of license keys
- Now we can restart this PC
Checking network connection to remote server
- I want to make sure that my local PC can reach the remote server over the network now so I’m going to open up command prompt and use the ping command to test the connection to the remote server’s IP address
- I can see here I’m getting a response
Transferring the license to the remote server
- By selecting my Local Disk C here I can see all the licenses I have stored on this computer
- I’m going to select them all by clicking and drawing a box, then choose “License Key” - “Transfer”
- Then I’ll choose “Network” and enter the IP address of my remote server.
- And we can see it has found the remote server. It wants to put the licenses on its C drive which works for me so I’ll hit OK and the transfer begins!
- Now we can see that the licenses are gone from my local C drive, and here they are on the remote server
Verify the Transfer
- If I just drill down into this folder structure I can right click on the license itself, click “Check”, and see that the license registers as OK
- Now I’m going to open up TIA Portal, then open a test project. Then I’ll just open any program block so that Portal will check with the manager to see if it’s licensed
- Now if I go back to the manager, right click and select “Check” we can see that the license is OK and in use
- To see even more detail, I can navigate to “View” - “Log” to see a record of all the actions taken on the manager
- On the left, I can filter by number of entries, time ranges, or by the action taken
- On the right, I can see all the details about the individual entries, including the product, the action taken, and the user who initiated the action
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