Under the 'Manage Activations' tab, select 'Rehost Activations' (SS1 –rehost).If the licenses you want to have on the USB dongle have already been activated, you must “rehost” them.We can use the free license management utility, Factorytalk Activation Manager, to generate these activations, or to return activations back to Rockwell (called “rehosting”), so that you can download them to a different computer or USB Dongle. Activation generates a license file that is tied to a piece of hardware in the host PC, generally the hard disk drive, or a USB dongle. Rockwell software uses a process called “Activation” to authenticate licenses. By installing the activations on the USB Dongle, you can have your application software on multiple computers, and the one that has the dongle inserted will run it. Occasionally, however, there are times when you might not have access to the computer with the activated license or need to share the license with a colleague.Īn easy way to do this is by using a Rockwell Automation USB Software Activation Dongle, part number 9509-USB-DONG2.

Most Rockwell Automation software licenses are single seat, which means they can only be used by one person at a time. Working with our industrial automation customers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, at times we see customers struggling with managing their software licenses between users.

How to share a Rockwell Automation software license between two or more computers with a USB Software Dongle

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