Overview

About Activating Licensing

License activation determines which modules and products will be available in APM. You require license activation for each module or feature that you want to use (that is, you cannot use a module or a feature until the associated license is activated).

Within individual modules, availability of the following items is controlled by the license activation:
  • Entity and relationship families
  • Rules Library projects
  • URLs
  • Options on the Applications menu

Other types of content, such as Catalog items, may be available even if the license for the associated module is not activated. However, this content will not be functional because it requires specific families that must be activated.

To activate APM licenses, you must supply a license file that will be provided to you with your APM distribution package. In this documentation, we provide instructions for activating licenses. This documentation assumes that you have already obtained your license file, which is required to complete the activation process.

Note that each license file:
  • Has a customer-specific PIN associated with it. When you activate licenses, you must provide the PIN that is associated with the selected license file. If the PIN that you specify does not match the PIN in the file, an error message will be displayed, and the licenses will not be activated.
  • Is valid only for a certain length of time. You must activate modules within a timely manner before your license file expires. If you attempt to activate licenses using an expired file, an error message will be displayed, indicating that the file has expired, and the activation will not occur.
  • Is version-specific. If you attempt to activate licenses using a file whose version information differs from the version of the product in which you are performing the activation, an error message will be displayed, and the activation will not occur.
Note: Under any of the error conditions described in the preceding list, any modules or products that were active before you attempted to load the license file will continue to be active after the error message is displayed. In other words, these errors will not affect your current activation state. They will simply prevent you from making changes to that state.

For production versions of APM, after you have activated your licenses, you should be able to continue using the associated modules and products until you upgrade to a new version of APM. After you upgrade, the licenses will no longer be valid. Any modules that were previously available will no longer be accessible in the APM application. You will need a new license file in order to reactivate the licenses on the new version.

If you use temporary licenses for demo or trial purposes, your licenses will expire after a certain period of time, as determined by your trial agreement. After the licenses have expired, you will no longer be able to log in to the APM system. However, if you are a Super User, you will receive a prompt on the log in page that will allow you to load a new license file.

Note: For most modules, license activation results in the content for that module being available immediately. For the SAP Interfaces product, however, the changes will not be immediate; it may take up to one hour for the module and its content to be available. If you want to apply the changes immediately, you can restart IIS on the APM Server.

APM Licenses

The following table lists the licenses that can be activated via Operations Manager and the modules/features that are activated with each license.

This license:...Activates this module/feature:
APM Connect BasicAPM Connect
APM Connect PlusAPM Connect
APM Connect StudioAPM Connect
APM EssentialsActivates all standard APM product features and modules except the following features and modules:
  • Advanced Search
  • Datasets
  • Hyperlink Utility
  • Maps
  • R Scripts
  • Reports
  • Scripts
  • Teams
Note: The APM Essentials license is activated along with the following licenses to activate all the features available in Essentials:
  • Metrics Manager
  • Meridium Core
  • Family Policy
  • Policy Designer
Asset Answers
Note: The product features related to this license have been deferred, or no action is required to activate this license.
Asset HealthAsset Health Manager (AHM)
Asset Strategy ManagementAsset Strategy Management
Asset Strategy OptimizationAsset Strategy Optimization (ASO)
CalibrationCalibration Management
Criticality CalculatorCriticality Calculator
DevelopersConfiguration Manager

-and-

Manage Translations

eLogeLog
Family PolicyFamily Policy
GAA WindGeneration Availability Analysis Wind (GAA Wind)
Generation Availability Analysis (GAA)Generation Availability Analysis (GAA)
Hazards AnalysisHazards Analysis

-and-

Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA)

ISO RiskCustom
Incident ManagementCustom
InspectionInspection Management

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Inspection Field Data Collection

Integrity MobileIntegrity Mobile
Language-<Supported Language>Translations for the Licensed Language
Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCC)Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCC)
Lubrication ManagementRounds
MOCManagement of Change (MOC)
Maximo InterfacesAPM Connect Maximo Adapters
Mechanical Integrity 2D VisualizationMechanical Integrity 2D Visualization
Meridium APM Web Framework
Note: The product features related to this license have been deferred, or no action is required to activate this license.
Meridium CoreAPM Core Functionality and all of the following modules/features:
  • Asset Criticality Analysis (ACA)
  • Core Analysis
  • Recommendation Management
  • Risk Assessment
Metrics ManagerMetrics and Scorecards
NR13Inspection Management
APM OT ConnectOT Connect
OSI PI Interfaces
Note: The product features related to this license have been deferred, or no action is required to activate this license.
Operator RoundsRounds
Oracle eAM Interfaces
Note: The product features related to this license have been deferred, or no action is required to activate this license.
PROACTRoot Cause Analysis
Pipeline Management Risk Based Inspection
Policy DesignerPolicy Designer
Production Loss AccountingProduction Loss Analysis (PLA)
RBI 581RBI 581
RCMFailure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

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Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)

Reliability ManagerReliability Analytics
Risk Based InspectionRisk Based Inspection (RBI)
SAP Content for ASIAsset Strategy Implementation (ASI)
SAP Criticality Assessment
Note: The product features related to this license have been deferred, or no action is required to activate this license.
SAP Integration InterfacesAPM Connect SAP Adapters
SAP Process IntegrationSAP PI Adapters
SAP Technical CharacteristicsAPM Connect SAP Adapters
SAP Work ManagementAPM Connect SAP Adapters
SIS ManagementSIS Management

-and-

Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA)

Thickness MonitoringThickness Monitoring (TM)