Historian Licenses
Historian Product License Management
Advantage Licensing is the software system for activating and managing product licenses. Using the tools in Licensing and our Customer Center web site you can view, activate, and manage licenses at your site.
- View current licenses for the products residing on a computer
- Choose a licensing method (Internet, local intranet, or file-based)
- Change licenses (Activate, Return, Refresh)
If you did not receive an activation code, follow the instructions about M4 keys at http://digitalsupport.ge.com.
If this is not done, an error may indicate that no licenses were found and the error may display a message similar to
"This version of licensing is out of date or invalid. Please install the latest version."-
- If you are using Windows Server 2012 R2, you must install the update described in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2919355.
Also you must have KB2919442 and then KB2919355 installed before installing KB2999226. This update must be installed before you install the License Client.
- If you are using Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, you must have SP1 installed before you can install KB2999226.
- If you are using Windows 8.1, you must install KB2999226.
- Activating licenses from the GE Cloud Server onto Windows XP SP3 or Windows Server 2003 SP2 computers is no longer supported.
If you need to activate a license directly onto a Windows XP SP3 or Windows Server 2003 SP2 computer, you can use the Offline Activation method. This entails using another computer, with Windows 7 or newer OS, to communicate with the GE Cloud Server. All other license formats and Common Licensing methods are still supported.
Historian License Editions
Historian is available in three license types: Essentials, Standard, and Enterprise. The Essentials edition is included as the on-board Historian with the purchase of some iFIX and CIMPLICITY licenses, and cannot be licensed or sold outside of those packages. Essentials edition customers who require options available in the Standard or Enterprise editions or require more than a 1000 tags must purchase either a Standard or Enterprise License with the appropriate tag count.
You can install all components using the single install media, but the use of specific components and functionality are controlled by the GE license you purchase and install.
The Historian components and functionality supported by each license type are shown in the table below:
| Component | Essentials | Standard | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allow Data Modification | Y | Y | Y |
| Calculation Collector | - | Optional | Y |
| Cluster Support | - | Y | Y |
| Collector Redundancy | Optional | Y | Y |
| Collector Toolkit SDK | - | Y | Y |
| Cygnet Data Collector w/Cloud Option | - | Y | Y |
| Data Mirroring - up to 3 (Primary +2) | - | - | Y |
| Data Stores | 5 | 10 | 20 |
| Digital / Enumerated / Array Tags | Y | Y | Y |
| Electronic Signatures | - | Optional | Optional |
| Excel Add-in | Y | Y | Y |
| Expression Support | - | - | Y |
| Fault Tolerant Computer Support | Y | Y | Y |
| File Collector | - | Y | Y |
| GE Data Collector for ODBC w/Cloud Option | - | Y | Y |
| GE Data Collector for OPC HDA w/Cloud Option | - | Y | Y |
| GE Data Collector for OPC UA (DA) w/Cloud Option | - | Y | Y |
| GE Data Collector for OSI PI w/Cloud Option | - | Y | Y |
| GE Data Collector for Wonderware w/Cloud Option | - | Y | Y |
| Historian Client Access Licenses (CALs) | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| iFIX Collector | Y | Y | Y |
| Historian Server | Y | Y | Y |
| Max Historical Tags | 1,000 | 50,000 | 20,000,000 |
| Maximum Data Stores (200) | - | - | Optional |
| ME View Data Collector | Y | Y | Y |
| Microsecond Support | - | Y | Y |
| MQTT | - | Y | Y |
| Multiple Data Stores | - | Y | Y |
| OLE DB Provider | Y | Y | Y |
| OPC Alarms | - | Optional | Y |
| OPC DA Collector w/Cloud Option | Y | Y | Y |
| OPC HDA Server | Y | Y | Y |
| OSI PI Distributor | - | Y | Y |
| SCADA Buffer (10000 tags, 200 days) | Y* | Y | Y |
| Server to Server Collector w/Cloud Option | - | Optional | Y |
| Server-to-Server Distributor | Y | Y | Y |
| Simulation Collector | Y | Y | Y |
| User Defined Multi-Field Tags | - | Y | Y |
| Web Admin Console | - | Y | Y |
| Web Trend Client | - | Y | Y |
| Windows Admin Console | Y | Y | Y |
| Windows Performance Collector | - | Y | Y |
A component that is used only by the Historian HD license is installed with your Historian installation: the Historian Archive Ingestion Service. This service is reserved for use only with the Historian HD big data analytics platform and is listed as Manual under Startup Type. Stopping this service does not impact Historian functionality. Unless you are licensed to use Historian HD, do not attempt to start or monitor this service, as it may impact the ability to run the Historian Data Archiver service.