Align License Requirement For A Hardware Unit - Siemens SINUMERIK 840Di sl Commissioning Manual

17.3.8

Align license requirement for a hardware unit

Background
If one or more options are active on a SINUMERIK control system, you must assign each
license to the hardware. Next, the updated license information including the License Key is
transferred to the hardware.
You can use the "Align requirement" function to perform the alignment automatically for all
required licenses based on the control system (online) or a control image (offline). The
following actions are performed:
● Determining the hardware serial number for the control system
● Determining the license requirement for the control system
● Taking the required licenses from the customer-specific licenses and assigning these to
● Transferring the updated license information including License Key to the control system
Requirements
The following requirements must be met for the license requirement alignment:
● The address data for the customer login (personalized login) is available:
● Control (online) or control image (offline)
Implementation
Perform the following actions for license requirement alignment with a control system (online)
or a control image (offline):
1. Open the corresponding control system file in the navigation area of the Automation
2. Select menu command "License Key" > "Align requirement".
3. Login via your customer login.
4. Execute the following steps in the Automation License Manager:
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the hardware
(online) or the control image (offline)
– User Name
– Password
An "online" control system file or an "offline" control system file with the relevant control
image (offline) is available.
How to create a control system image (offline) is described in Subsection "Creating a
control system image (offline)".
A description of how to assign parameters for TCP/IP communication with a control
system is given in Subsection "Parameterize TCP/IP communication with a control
system" (Page 577).
License Manager and select the control system (online) or the control image (offline).
"Align requirement", "Confirm requirement list" and "Transfer licenses".
Follow the instructions displayed on the screen.
17.3 Assigning via Automation License Manager
License management
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