How To Perform The Upgrade Of The System Expansion Card - Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 Service Manual

Ensuring Availability
3.5 Licenses and license keys
3.5.2.5

How to perform the upgrade of the System Expansion Card

Requirement
● You can access the automation system for which you want to perform the PO upgrade with
the engineering station via a PCS 7 project.
● The System Expansion Card for which you sent the PO-Activation-File to Siemens is
inserted in the automation system.
● You have obtained the PO-Release-File.
Perform upgrade with PO-Release-File
Note
During the upgrade of the process objects of a CPU 410-5H system expansion card (SEC),
only one instance of the Automation License Manager (ALM) may be active.
1. Transfer the PO-Release-Files you received to the following upgrade directory on the
engineering station:
Documents > Siemens > Automation > PCS 7 > Activations
2. Open the Automation License Manager.
3. Select the menu command Edit > Connect target system > Connect/disconnect AS 410... .
The "Connect target system" dialog box displays the list of automation systems that are
linked with the Automation License Manager.
4. Click "OK".
The connected automation systems are displayed in the list.
5. In the tree view, open the automation system for which you have received the PO-Release-
File.
6. Use drag-and-drop to transfer the PO-Release-File to the "Online" folder of the automation
system.
The upgrade is completed. The time needed for this depends on the load of the automation
system.
7. After a successful upgrade, the utilized files in the upgrade directory (PO-Release-File and
PO-Activation-File) are deleted.
The Automation License Manager displays the new PO volume for the updated System
Expansion Card.
Additional information
You can find information on the expert mode in the following documents:
● Section "Enabling expert mode (Page 61)"
● Automation License Manager
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