Re: [foxboro] Counting licenses

  • From: "Boulay, Russ" <Russ.Boulay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 10:00:01 -0400

Dm.cfg just lets you give DM's a personality....
You could put dozens of DM's in there for a particular letterbug.

IIF.lum.....enforces the additional DM's you actually purchased....and limits 
you to that qty.
As we know...those are just "paper" licenses and in SysDef you can put in what 
you want.

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-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Gunter, Matt
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 6:55 AM
To: 'foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Counting licenses

Thanks Scott, I did not indicate the OS.  We are talking about Solaris 
(SunBlade 1500 boxes - both red and silver).

I have implemented your recommendation and it works.

This leads to what I suppose is a final question.  What is the correlation 
between the dmcfg and the IIF.lum?  The dmcfg file is relatively simple and I 
should be able to edit it to have a consistently generated configuration that 
supports the number of DM licenses.

Again, thanks to all.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Landry, Scott
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 5:45 AM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Counting licenses



   Matt,


    You did not indicate what OS,  XP or SOL8.  If XP the 2nd FV on the 
workstation must be floating.

    A quick workaround for this if you can't figure it out doing a compare 
between old and new dmcfg file is;
    use the old dmcfg file and manually copy the new WPxxxx.cfg file (am 
config) to where it needs to go.

    /usr/fox/customer/config/current_config.dir/WPxxxx/WPxxxx.cfg  (from box 
with AM-DMconfig)
    to /usr/fox/customer/alarms/cfg  (WPxxxx)






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From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Boulay, Russ [Russ.Boulay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 7:06 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Counting licenses

How many DM's are configured on that station.....and what does 
/usr/fox/sp/IIF.lum have for an entry for that workstation

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States   |   Support Engineering Manager
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-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Gunter, Matt
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 4:57 PM
To: 'foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Counting licenses

Philip,

Thanks for your quick response.  I've double checked to make sure all FV 
instances are accounted for in the configurator and the dmcfg file.  I've 
switched back and forth a couple of times for each station and the response is 
consistent.  Also, I've allowed the configurator to do all the file generation 
because I am prone to fat-fingering entries.

Thanks!
Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Pulas, Philip
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 5:49 PM
To: 'foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Counting licenses

Matt,

If you used the configurator to update the dmcfg file, you may no longer have 
multiple (or the total number) FV names for each letterbug anymore.  The dmcfg 
file needs to contain all the different FV letterbugs for each workstation to 
use.  One part of that configurator is where you assign display names to each 
workstation, or you can just manually edit the dmcfg file.

Thanks,
Philip Pulas
Lead Engineer, Process Systems
Tesoro Golden Eagle Refinery
Ph: (925) 372-3043
Email: philip.g.pulas@xxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Gunter, Matt
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 4:39 PM
To: 'foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [foxboro] Counting licenses

Esteemed "list",
I am making a minor change to our display/alarm manager - allowing access to a 
button which has been previously restricted - but when I make the changes using 
the Display and Alarm Manager configurator and distribute the dmcfg and 
WPXXXX.cfg files, things go wrong.  A reboot of the two WPs I have thus 
modified results in the loss of availability of an FV license on each.  The 
FoxView Usage Summary shows the DNAME but it is not selectable.  The reason 
listed is "No License," which is inaccurate.  Rolling those two files back to 
the previous versions frees the FV back up for use, but the button is again 
restricted.

Maybe I haven't used the configurator in long enough that I don't remember some 
setting.  A search through B0193RV rev E uncovers plenty of discussion about 
licenses w.r.t. "you can't create more DMs or AMs than you have licenses," but 
nothing about "if you do this wrong you will restrict the use of # licenses."  
Elbowing around the configurator's interface hasn't provided any clues either.

We are running IA 7.1.5/FV 9.0.4

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt



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