Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Installation Guide - Manual (Page 70)

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What happens if FactoryTalk View is not activated?
If the FactoryTalk View components you have installed cannot be activated, for example,
because the activation server is unavailable or because borrowed activations have expired,
the software will continue to run for up to seven days.
The seven-day grace period allows time to correct the problem with acquiring activations
without disrupting critical applications. If activation is restored within seven days, normal
operations will resume.
If activation is not restored, the grace period will expire. After the grace period expires, if
you restart FactoryTalk View SE and activation remains unavailable, the software will run
for two hours in demo mode.
With a FactoryTalk View SE network distributed application, running in demo mode, you
can:
 Create or load up to five HMI servers locally in FactoryTalk View Studio.
 Create or load up to five graphic displays per HMI server.
 Run a local station FactoryTalk View application for up to two hours. In demo mode,
remote clients cannot connect to a FactoryTalk View server.
 In Symbol Factory, import only the first graphic in each category.
Set up client computers to obtain floating activations
Floating concurrent activations are assigned automatically to clients that need them, and
returned automatically to the activation server pool when FactoryTalk View SE stops
running on the client, or when the client computer shuts down.
Client computers must be set up to obtain floating activations from the activation server.
If you prefer to use borrowed activations for clients, skip to “Borrow activations for
development computers” on page 57.
After you set up the activation server (or servers), you can specify which server each
client computer will obtain activations from.
Once a client is connected to a server, all you have to do is to run the FactoryTalk View
software (for example, the FactoryTalk View SE Client), and the server will issue
available activations automatically.
A continuous network connection is required for an activation client to use floating
activations. After a client obtains a floating activation, when the activation server detects
that the client has been disconnected, the activation is returned to the server pool.
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