Install license

To automatically install or update licenses

At the License step (Figure 4), you install one or more license files in a new JACE. You typically select the option to get and install licenses from the licensing server.

At least one license file specific to any JACE is stored on the licensing server. Providing you have Internet connectivity, this is the recommended method to install or update a license. See License Server for more details.A minimum of one license file is always needed. Typically, other license files are not needed unless you are using third-party module(s). In this case, you can also install those license files during this same commissioning step, either automatically, or by selecting to install from files.

Figure 4. License dialog (select method)

Select “Get and Install the licenses for the host from the license server.”
Workbench silently searches the licensing server, locates the license(s), and the wizard advances to the next step. See Install Certificate.

If the “license server” option shown above does not appear, Workbench has not detected Internet connectivity, and so cannot contact the licensing server. In this case, you can either:

If you already have a license for this JACE in your “local license database,” select the last option shown in Figure 4, to install from your “workbench license database.” (This option will be missing if your local license database does not include a license for this JACE.) Workbench locates the license, and the wizard advances to the next step. See Install Certificate.
If you have the JACE license file(s), use the next procedure To install or update licenses from files. If necessary, you can also install license(s) later, either from your local license database or from license files.

To install or update licenses from files

At the License step, select “Install one or more licenses from files”.
Click the Next button.

The “Choose license files to install” step appears (Figure 5).
Click the Add button.

A “Select File” dialog appears (Figure 6). By default, the contents of your licenses subfolder is listed (showing your Workbench license). If you previously pointed Workbench to another location, license files in that location are listed instead.
- If you see the license you need, click it to highlight it. If other licenses are also needed, you can select multiples by holding down the Ctrl key while you click.
- If a license is not listed, navigate to its location using the left-pane folder tree controls, and click the license to highlight it.
The licensing tool prevents selection of a wrong license (different hostid) to install in the JACE.
Click the OK button.

The “Choose license files to install” dialog appears (Figure 7) with the selected license(s).
If necessary, click the Add button again (Step 3) to add additional license files.
When all needed licenses are listed in the “Choose license files” dialog, click the Next button to go to the last (review) dialog in the Commissioning Wizard.

Figure 5. License dialog (choose files)

Figure 6. Select Files dialog from Add in Licensing

Figure 7. License dialog with file selected

About the Licensing Server

For license files validated against the Tridium certificate, installation can be automated from Workbench. All such purchased licenses (including JACE, Supervisor, or Workstation-only) are stored and available to Workbench through the licensing server.

Providing that your PC currently has Internet connectivity while running a platform connection to any Niagara host, Workbench provides an install option (get and install the licenses for the host from the license server). When selected, Workbench silently searches the Tridium web portal for a license with a matching Host ID of the target platform. When found, it selects the license(s) and advances to the next wizard step. For more details, refer to the section “About the licensing server” in the Platform Guide.

Install Certificate

During the license install step, the wizard checks to see if a Tridium certificate is installed. This certificate is required by any NiagaraAX host, to verify the license file. Additional certificates may also be required.

Figure 8. License certificate dialog with file selected

Select to install the certificate(s) and click Next to advance the Set module content filter level step.