Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Installation Guide - Manual (Page 73)

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Sharing keys among multiple software components
Multiple FactoryTalk View SE software components can function using one activation
key in the following cases:
 Multiple instances of FactoryTalk View Studio or the FactoryTalk View SE Client
running on the same computer can use a single key (RSV.STUDIO or RSVSECLI), as
long as the components are not running in a Terminal Services session.
 In the network application of FactoryTalk View SE versions earlier than 6.10, for
development and testing purposes, one FactoryTalk View Studio key activates a
FactoryTalk View SE Client and SE Server on the same computer. Remote clients and
servers require component-specific activations.
Note: In version 6.10 or higher, one FactoryTalk Studio key can no longer activate the
local server or client to run in test run mode.
 Local applications use a single key (RSVSE.*) to activate both the FactoryTalk View
SE Client and the FactoryTalk View SE Server at run time. These components running
together are also known as FactoryTalk View SE Station.
Read-write versus view-only activations
In a network application, FactoryTalk View SE Clients can use two types of activation:
 Read-write keys ( RSVSECLI.RW) allow full read-write privileges.
 View-only keys ( RSVSECLI.RO) allow view-only privileges.
Whether a FactoryTalk View SE Client runs in read-write or in view-only mode depends
on the type of activation key available for the client to use, and whether the client itself is
set up as read-write or view-only:
 If the activation server can only provide view-only licenses, and a read-write client
obtains one of these licenses, then the activation overrides the client’s configuration,
and the client runs in view-only mode.
 If the activation server can only provide read-write licenses, and a view-only client
obtains one of these licenses, then the client’s configuration overrides the activation,
and the client runs in view-only mode.
 Do not rely on available activation keys to determine whether the FactoryTalk View
SE Client runs in read-write or view-only mode. Instead, to ensure that a client always
FactoryTalk View SE Server activations—known as capacity activations because they are based
on the number of displays in an application—cannot be shared.
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