Types of activations

Rockwell Software products offer different activation options. Bound activations to a permanent device on a computer, such as a hard disk or Ethernet card, or to a removable device, such as a dongle.

Node-locked activations

An activation locked to a specific piece of computer hardware and used only on the computer to which it is locked. Examples of computer hardware used for node-locked activation include an Ethernet card, a hard disk, or a dongle. Not all product support node-locked activations. See your product documentation for information on what types of activation it supports.

Concurrent activations

Concurrent activations require a network connection for all computers running Rockwell Automation software. The software automatically connects to a designated activation server on the network and retrieves an activation. Upon shutdown, the software automatically returns the activation to the pool of available activations.

The activation server manages a set number of activations and serves these activations to any configured computer on the network.

Borrowed activations

Borrowed activations are concurrent activation that do not require a continuous network connection and expire after a specified amount of time (borrow term).

Check out a borrowed activation from a pool of activations managed by an activation server. Check out a borrowed activation to a dongle or a computer. Once checked out to the device, the device does not need to maintain connection to the network. When the time limit of the borrowed activation expires, the software is no longer activated on the device where the borrowed activation resides, and the activation automatically becomes available again from the server's activation pool. Borrowing also allows activations to be reserved from the activation pool to be used by a certain computer or group of computers.

See also

Supported dongle types

Configure the FactoryTalk Activation server

Borrow an activation

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