TN 020: Using an AVEVA Wonderware Archestra.lic License file with Dream Report
AVEVA issues Dream Report licenses in their Archestra.lic license files. If Dream Report is installed on a PC/server:
· Without any Wonderware software installed; or
· With System Platform 2017 or later (which uses the newer Wonderware activated licensing, and not the Archestra.lic files); or
· With only a legacy Wonderware software component installed; or
· With AVEVA Citect software installed,
then Wonderware’s ArchestrA License Manager is required for Dream Report to recognize the Dream Report feature lines in an Archestra.lic license file.
A copy of the ArchestrA License Manager is included (but not installed, by default) with the Dream Report installation. After installing Dream Report, open Windows Explorer and browse to the \ODS\Dream Report\Utilities\ folder, where you will find the file WW-LicenseServer.zip. Unzip and run the included setup file. Accept the defaults, and when prompted to load a license at the end of the installation, browse for the Archestra.lic file provided by your AVEVA distributor. The ArchestrA License Manager can be launched at any time to add/modify a Wonderware license from Start > All Programs > Wonderware > Common > ArchestrA License Manager.
To verify that Dream Report recognizes the license, open Dream Report Studio, and click Help > About Dream Report, where you should then see a dialog box indicating a Wonderware-issued license is being used:
Notes:
· If a license.dat file is present in the \ODS\Dream Report\license\ folder, that license will always take precedence over the Archestra.lic file. To ensure that the Archestra.lic license is being used, make sure to delete all files from the \ODS\Dream Report\license\ folder.
· Make sure that the feature line for Dream Report in the Archestra.lic file is for the version of Dream Report you are using (or later) and not an earlier version – you can verify that in the ArchestrA License Manager, or open the file in Notepad.