Licensing

Owned by Tucker Watson (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Apr 06, 2018 by Joseph Page (Unlicensed)
2 min read

nProtex is licensed by the number of connected stations. For one server (or web supervisor) and 10 JACE devices, a 10 station license is required. Following are steps for server licensing and station activation.  

Step 1. Install License (Automatic or Manual)

Automatic Installation

To automatically install or "fetch" your license:

  1. Navigate to Services/nProtexService/License within your Workbench station
  2. Right-click on License and select Action > Fetch License

At this point your license file will be downloaded from Activelogix servers, copied into the appropriate directory, and loaded.

You should now be able to access nProtex through a browser at http://IP_of_host/nprotex.

Manual Installation

To manually install the license, copy the license file into the following folder:

  • {STATION_HOME}/shared/alx
    • On a typical CPU, this will be: C:\ProgramData\Niagara-4.X\{brand}\station\{station_name}\shared\alx
  • The "alx" folder should be created if it does not already exist in your station shared folder.
     

Debug License

The "Debug License" action will generate some additional information about your license file into the Station Output. This can be a useful tool to identify license problems or assist tech support.

• Contact techsupport@activelogix.com for support questions


nProtex does not use normal Niagara licensing and does not require a certificate

Step 2. Tag Niagara Stations

Each subordinate station needs a simple "nprotex" tag to let nProtex know that it should be included in reports and licensed.  This tag can be of any type and the only requirement is that it is a property named "nprotex" underneath the Niagara Station.  The ProgramService can be used to batch add tags or it can be done manually by adding a slot.

Manual:

  1. Navigate to the Niagara Network

  2. View the Slot Sheet of the Station you'd like to license as one of the nProtex stations

  3. Right Click > Add

  4. Change the name to "nprotex" 

  5. Type can be set to anything such as a baja String

  6. Click OK.

This will add a new slot of the selected type to your Niagara Station.  Step 3 below will then activate this Station and all nProtex views will attempt to include it.

Step 3. Activate Subordinate Stations

The third step activates all connected JACEs which prevents having to install individual license files per station.  To activate JACEs:

  1. Navigate to Services/nProtexService/License within your Workbench station
  2. Right-click on License and select Action > Activate Stations

This will attempt to connect to all Stations that were tagged in (2) in the Niagara Network, look for Services/nProtexService and activate them.  Once activated, connected JACEs will be usable within nProtex as well as use the Firewall functionality.