So if I go back to ALM settings we see it’s using port 4410 so I’ll enter that here and use the same settings as the last rule. Next, I’ll add the port that I know ALM is using. The first will be allowing the ALM program through so I browse to this file, select it, and allow it to communicate through all channels. You might not need to do this if you’re not using a VPN, but if you’re having issues getting the two ALMs connected, you might want to try this out.įrom the start menu, I’m opening up Windows Firewall with Advanced Security and we’re going to be adding two inbound rules. Now, based on my network architecture, I need to set some inbound firewall rules to allow my local instance to get through to the server. If we navigate back to settings we also want to make sure that this box is not checked. The service needs to be restarted now so we’ll check this box and hit ok. Go to File > Settings and under the “Connection” tab check “Allow remote connections”. So now that we have the license manager installed on the remote server, there are a few settings we need to make so that it can communicate with our local installation. Hitting next again we’re just going to click through this whole process. I’ll hit next to start the installation and I’ll have the installer delete the extracted files once it finishes. I’ve already used Windows’ remote desktop to remote into my remote server and I’m just going to open Chrome and search “siemens automation license manager” to get to Siemens’ download.Īs I scroll down here, I can find the “.exe” executable for version 6 which is the latest version at the time of this video.Īfter signing in, the download will start automatically and I’ll save it to my “Downloads” folder.īy clicking here I can run the executable straight from Chrome.
So, to get started, the first thing we’ll do is install ALM on the remote server. However, any PC can be used as the remote server as long as it is on the same network as the local PC. Once the licenses are on the remote server, each individual programming environment can connect to the server over the network to activate their products.Īt Outlier, we’re using an AWS r4.large EC2 instance to host our remote server and we’ve connected that to our local PC network using OpenVPN.
Hello and welcome to this video where we will be using Siemens’ Automation License Manager to transfer local software licenses to a remote server.