Installation

Introduction

Normally, the Prinect Production License Manager software is installed together with a Prinect product. If you use only one or two Prinect products, you can use one of the application computers as the License Server PC at the same time. In a complex system environment with a number of Prinect products, it may be advisable to install a separate License Server PC. In this case, the licensing software is installed separately.

This chapter describes the separate installation of the Prinect Production License Manager software. If you use an application PC also as the License Server PC, the License Server software is installed together with the application software. This installation is described in the respective application documentation.

Prerequisite: For many Prinect products, the license can be enabled either via a dongle or via online licensing. If you want to enable the license via a dongle, please note that a Prinect License Server supports only one dongle per license. Accordingly, only one dongle may be plugged into the License Server PC. Other dongles may not be plugged in. Some products can be activated only with online licensing.

Prerequisite: The licensing software is supported on the following operating systems:

​•​Windows^© Server 2012 / Windows^© 8/8.1 (64 bit)

​•​Windows^© Server 2016 / Windows^© 10 (64 bit)

​•​Windows^© Server 2019

Prerequisite: The License Server and License Manager must have permission to access other computers in the network. If online licensing is used, a permanent Internet connection to the Heidelberg Software Center must be available (short-term failures are not problematic). Consequently, the Firewall of the License Server PC is configured to allow this (enabling of the required ports). This Firewall setup is done automatically during installation of the licensing software.

Note: The License Server must be available through a fixed computer name or an unvarying IP address so that it can be accessed at any time in the network by Prinect applications.

The "Domain Name System (DNS)" service must be set up in your network environment if you want to use the computer name for addressing.

It is essential that you assign a static IP address to the License Server PC and not an IP address assigned by DHCP if you wish to make the License Server PC known on the application PC through an IP address. If you are not sure, ask your network administrator for assistance.