5.1 Workflow for Generating Workstation Licenses
Complete the following steps to generate a license file for a development computer:
1. Log in to the Wind River licensing Web site. If you do not yet have an account on the site, create your account.
2. Add the license number for this order to your account to activate this license. 3. Find out if any of your developers installed a Wind River product and
requested a temporary license (also known as temporaryactivation). If so, generate a permanent license for them.
4. Add information about, and generate licenses for, the development computers that will run node-locked licenses.
5. Using the license server license file, create Product Activation files for users who have not yet installed the product.
6. Using the product installer, generate a license file and response.xml file(s) for installations you will perform for your users.
These tasks are described in greater detail in the following sections.
5.2 Generating a Node-Locked License File
To generate a node-locked license, follow these steps:
Step 1: Log in to the Wind River licensing Web site.
1. Locate your License Administrator Essentials sheet, as in Figure 5-1. You will need information from it to complete this task.
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2. Go to http://www.windriver.com/licensing.
3. Check the list of products that can be activated from this site to be sure your product appears here. If it appears in the list, click Login.
4. Log in to the site:
Figure 5-1 Sample License Administrator Essentials Sheet
NOTE: Some older products cannot be activated from the licensing Web site; to activate those products, see the installation information that was included with the products. If you do not have access to installation instructions for an older product, contact Wind River Customer Support or e-mail to
■ If you already have a Wind River User ID and Password (for example because you previously logged in to this site or the Wind River support site), type them and click Login.
or
■ If you are not yet a registered user on any Wind River site, click Register for a User ID and Password. Type your user profile information,
including your license number from the License Administrator Essentials or the Developer Essentials sheet. Type a password, confirm it, then click Submit.
Step 2: Activate your license.
1. Click Activate your products to open the Add Licenses screen. Type in your License Number and License Administrator Token from the License
Administrator Essentials sheet.
If you expect to eventually manage several product licenses, also type in a label (for example, VxWorks GPP 3.4 or Alameda Campus) to make it easier to identify this particular license in the future.
2. Click Submit. On the Add Licenses Confirmation screen, check to be sure all the information you typed in is correct.
Your license has now been added to your account. If you order additional Wind River products in the future, click Manage Licenses and then click Add New License to add the new products to your account.
Step 3: Add your development computer as a new host.
Once your license has been activated, use the Manage Hosts screen to add information about the development computer. If you have any hosts already defined, they appear on this screen.
1. To add a host, click Add New Host.
2. On the Create Host screen, enter the host computer’s name, host ID, and other requested information.
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Step 4: Activate your products and generate a license file for the development computer.
1. After you have added the development computer to your account, click Manage Licenses to activate the products you have purchased.
2. From the drop-down list next to the license on the Manage Licenses screen, select Activate Products.
3. Select the product you want to allocate to this development computer (look for NL in the License Type column). Click Next.
4. From the Host Label drop-down list, select this development computer, then click Next.
5. Confirm that you selected the correct host, then click Next.
6. Click Download to download the license file immediately, or enter an e-mail address if you want the license file to be sent to the person responsible for this computer. If you entered an e-mail address, click Send.
7. If you chose to send licenses by e-mail, the E-mail Licenses Confirmation screen displays to whom they were sent.
Once you have the node-locked license file, see the chapter on installation for instructions on how to use it.
5.3 Generating a Floating or Unique User License File
Before generating a floating or unique user license, you should have completed these tasks:
1. Create an account on the Wind River licensing Web site and generate a license file for your license server computer, as described in 4. Generating Server License Files.
2. Install and configure the license server, as described in 8. Installing and
NOTE: You can both download the license file and receive it in e-mail. If you download the file, you must be sure to preserve the .lic ending on the license file or the file will not work properly.
Generating a floating or unique user license consists of two tasks: allocating the appropriate product seat(s) to a specific license server, and creating a license file for the development computer by extracting information from the server’s license file.
Step 1: Log in to the Wind River licensing Web site.
Go to http://www.windriver.com/licensing and log in as described in Step 1 under 5.2 Generating a Node-Locked License File, p.22.
Step 2: Assign floating or unique user seats to a license server
1. Click the Manage Licenses tab, and from the drop-down list next to the appropriate license, select Activate Products.
2. Select the product for which you want to generate a license (look for FL or UU in the License Type column), then click Next.
3. Type the number of seats you want to allocate, select the license server to which you want to allocate them, and click Next.
4. Verify the number and type of seats that are assigned to the listed license server, then click Next.
5. Click Download to download the new server license file immediately, or enter an e-mail address if you want the license file to be sent to the person
responsible for this computer. If you entered an e-mail address, click Send. 6. Replace the existing license server file with this new file, which contains the
newly allocated seat(s) along with any previously assigned seats.
Step 3: Create a Product Activation file from a server license file.
There are two types of Product Activation file: install.txt and WRSLicense.lic. Both are created by extracting information from the server license file, and both permanently activate products so that developers can begin using them. 1. In your server license file, near the bottom, you will see lines similar to the
following:
# Begin: client license ---
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