WinCC OA Licensing

overview of the licensing model used by WinCC OA

To operate WinCC OA licenses are required. The licenses can be handled by the customer. The WinCC OA licensing provides:

  • Dynamic and easily expandable licenses
  • You can manage licenses autonomously - you can order feature licenses individually (price lists are available)
  • Licenses are easily migrated (no hardware code necessary)
  • For the WinCC OA licensing options, see chapter WinCC OA Licensing Options
  • For more information, get in contact with your sales consultant.

For more information, see chapters Activation for how to activate a license, Overview for the description of the License Information panel used to activate, deactivate, update or re-host a license and Check License Information for checking license information via the CodeMeter WebAdmin web page.

License Information Panel

  • Use the License Information panel to activate, deactivate, update or re-host a license. For more information, see chapter Overview.
    Note: You can activate multiple licenses simultaneously.
  • View license information such as available licenses, license options, containers etc.

CodeMeter Control Center and WebAdmin

WinCC OA Licensing uses the CodeMeter Control Center.

The licenses can also be managed via the CodeMeter WebAdmin page. On the WebAdmin page you can:

  • View license information such as available licenses etc.
  • Configure a license server.

For more information, see chapter Runtime Settings - CodeMeter Control Center and Check License Information.

License Containers

In WinCC OA Licensing containers that hold licenses are being used. Several containers can exist.

The software containers can be divided into:

  • software containers (CmActLicense): for which no specific hardware is required
    • developer edition
    • production edition
  • hardware containers (dongles)

For more information on containers, see chapter WinCC OA Licensing, Further Information.