Global capacity licensing

This licensing model is available for some platforms, among them the JACE-8000 and JACE-9000. Global capacity licensing tracks specific resources in the station using global counters. This provides more flexibility in how resources are allocated.

The station keeps a global count of all networks, devices, proxy points, links, histories and schedules. When one of these resources goes over a licensed limit, the resource either goes into fatal fault or becomes inactive. The content of any particular global capacity license depends on the feature purchased for the controller. For example:

<feature name="globalCapacity" expiration="2016-04-01" 
point.limit="1250" device.limit="50" 
excludedDevices="ndio;nrio;niagaraDriver" 
excludedPoints="ndio;nrio;niagaraDriver"/>

The example above sets global limits on points (1250) and devices (50), but no limits on networks, links, histories, or schedules. The excludedDevices and excludedPoints attributes mean that there is no limit on the number of devices and points from these modules: ndio, nrio or niagaraDriver.

A more restrictive global capacity example feature could look like below.

<feature name="globalCapacity" expiration="never" network.limit="3"
device.limit="25" point.limit="500" link.limit="400" history.limit="125"
schedule.limit="10" excludedNetworks="nrio" excludedDevices="nrio"
excludedPoints="nrio"/>

The example indicates:

  • A limit of three networks of any kind

  • A limit of 25 devices of any kind,

  • A limit of 500 points of any kind

  • A limit of 400 links of any kind.

  • A limit of 124 histories and 10 schedules of any kind.

Attributes allow for excludedNetworks, excludedDevices, and excludedPoints, each as a comma-separated list of modules. This means that there is no limit for nrio networks, devices and ports. Any modules in these attributes are excluded from the respective global capacity limit. However all links, histories, and schedules from these modules are not excluded from any other global capacity counts. All stations include an AuditHistory and LogHistory, which are included in the history limit.