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

The licensing server is the final license authority—the most current version of any NiagaraAX host platform’s license is always stored there. In addition to accessing licenses via the licensing server when using the License Manager, operations in other Workbench views access the licensing server too. Examples include the Workbench License Manager tool of Workbench, or the Network License Summary view of the “Licenses” slot of the NiagaraNetwork’s ProvisioningExt.

Providing that your PC currently has Internet connectivity while running a platform connection to any Niagara host, the License Manager allows you to automatically retrieve and install any needed licenses.

Do this with the Import button, then selecting the license server option. See Import for details. As a side benefit, your “local license database” is also updated.

If sourcing from the license server while platform-connected to a host that has not yet been assigned a license by the server (or has a “pending” license), a license request form opens in your computer’s default browser, as shown in Figure 43.

This lets you submit a license request to the licensing server that includes the platform’s Niagara Host ID. In this dialog, be sure to enter your name, and email address (Figure 43).If you already have been sent a “License Key”, note that a pending “unbound” license already exists on the licensing server. In this case, you can enter the license key along with the part number to activate that license, and make it immediately available.Upon approval, the license file for this JACE will be emailed back to the entered address. This license will typically be a zipped “license archive” (have a “.lar” extension)—see license archive (.lar) files. At that point forward, it will also be available for automatic retrieval using the corresponding “licensing server” operations from various views, such as the License Manager, Workbench License Manager view, and so forth.