A PC Harddrive (internal or external) identified by it's unique SERIAL NUMBER.Ī Rockwell USB Dongle (now also includes flash memory, PN# 9509-USBDONG2, $137) identified by it's unique ID Note: I did not list a USB Flash Drive. They can't be used as a “Host ID” since they don't have unique serial numbers like hard drives. A PC Ethernet card (internal or removable) identified by it's unique MAC ADDRESS.
With FTActivation the three types of hardware you can activate to are. The big difference being Microsoft doesn't tell you which hardware it's activating to, while FactoryTalk activation actually makes you chose a unique piece of computer hardware (referred to as a “Host ID”) to activate the software to. I often compare FactoryTalk Activation to Microsoft's activation for Office or Windows. Simply put, it's copy protection for Rockwell Automation's modern software packages. FTActivation replaces the old Floppy Disk activation (EVRSI.sys) which was inherited from ICOM after they were purchased in the mid-nineties.
So what is FactoryTalk Activation? Enter FactoryTalk Activation (FTActivation) from Rockwell Automation. And while I've run into my own “copy protection” frustrations over the years, I've also witnessed piracy dozens (if not hundreds) of times in the industrial automation world. However, it's widely accepted that without copy protection, software piracy would run wild. It's the old, “I paid for this software but the copy protection is preventing me from using it!” mantra. I like this better as it is far easier to manage when you have several hundred licesnses for various products like I do.Ĭopy Protection (aka Activation) is one of those topics that always seems to elicit a visceral response. If you get it from tech support it will be for a single product and will not indicate that it was a bundle at it's original purchase. Rockwell now breaks out a seperate product key for each product in the bundle now and have begun to go back and do this to licenses that were sold previously to this policy. In the past many bundled products shared a product key so it may be attached to other software if you had the paper certificate with the software. This is something you will want to keep up with. This is something you may want to put on your network drive or other storage medium for quick access. Rockwell tech support can email this to you in the form of a pdf document.
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