Emptying Your Legacy License Inventory

Video Information

Length

5:03

Language

English

Transcript

Welcome to our new video on the WinCC OA License Portal.

This tutorial will guide you through checking and emptying your legacy license inventory completely.

In our previous Use Case #1 video, we verified that our license containers were empty. Now let's examine the licenses themselves.

As you can see, we have several available licenses filtered here in our legacy license inventory. Our goal is to place these licenses on a container, move them to the appropriate project, and then activate them on a real container.

Let's begin. I'm currently in the legacy license inventory section. My ultimate objective is to completely empty the legacy license inventory of all available licenses and license containers.

Having already removed the license containers, we now need to relocate the license options.

Enable Project Changes: First, I need to enable changes since I'm working in a project. This prevents others from taking control or inadvertently affecting my licenses during this process. I'll enable the changes now. The project is now editable.

Let's proceed to the licenses section. Notice that the system indicates the project is locked by me. This means anyone attempting to access it will immediately see I'm currently working on this project.

Assign Licenses to a Virtual Container: Let's navigate to the licenses section. We'll select all licenses and place them in a virtual container. You can use the checkbox at the top to select all licenses or select specific license options individually. In my case, I want to include all licenses and assign them to a virtual container.

Let's assign them to a container. No container is found in this project because I'm working from my office PC where there's no WinCC OA installation. In this situation, we need to create a virtual container.

This is what happens when I click OK. The system license portal immediately recognizes there's no available container and prompts us to add a virtual container.

I'll give this virtual container a name. I'll call it "Virtual Container" and specify it's for the water projects subgroup, with "Server 2" as the description. This naming helps me remember where to move it later. That's done.

After clicking OK, the system asks me to confirm if these are the correct licenses. It's checking if I might be missing anything. In my case, I've selected all available licenses. So everything looks correct.

The container is now being created in the background. At this point, I could switch to real containers or create additional virtual containers. But currently, I only have this one virtual container.

With the virtual container selected, I'll click OK. Now all the licenses are no longer shown as available because they've been assigned. If I remove the availablefilter, you can see that all remaining licenses in this project are now assigned to my virtual container. Looking at the license containers section, there's my virtual container with all the licenses.

Move the Virtual Container to a New Project: I could release the changes now but wait. Remember, my goal is to completely empty the legacy license inventory. Therefore, I first need to move my virtual container to its proper destination.

Let's leave this as is and navigate to my broader projects. I'll go to Company A, which we set up in the previous video. I'll click on the company and create a new project where I'll place my virtual container. I'll click "Add"and name it "Server 2," specifying it's a single system WinCC OA. Let's use the same naming convention as Server 1. My new project is now created. You can see it on the left side.

Transfer the Container and Clean Up: Now I'll return to my legacy license inventory. This project is currently being maintained by me. I'll go to license containers, select my container, and choose to move it. In my case, the correct destination is Server 2, as Server 1 already has a container. I'll move it to Server 2. Now that it's moved, it's no longer visible here.

I can now release the changes in this project, completing the first task of emptying my legacy license inventory. Let's verify: license containers empty, licenses empty. Checking for available licenses – also empty.

Delete the Empty Project : Now I can delete this project. Since it's empty, I no longer need it. I'll navigate to the upper group, go to projects, select the legacy license inventory, and delete it. The system asks if I really want to delete it. Yes. The project is now deleted.

I've established a transparent view of all my containers. Let's double-check that my virtual container is properly located – and yes, there it is.

I've completed everything I needed to do. Now I can release the changes here as well. The project is successfully published. Perfect!

You can see we've created a well-organized project tree on the left side, clearly showing all your projects.