Siemens / TIA

TIA Portal v19 license floating away mid-download

Priya Shah · Integrator

Network license. Download starts, automation license manager loses the seat, Portal parks on 'waiting for license.' USB dongle on a colleague still works. Is this a VLAN, a firewall to the license server, or v19 being picky about the clock?

Marcus Hale · Controls engineer · body shop
Clock skew of more than a couple minutes will drop a floating seat. NTP the engineering box to the same source as the license server. Also whitelist ALM ports both ways — a 'download' is a long borrow. We moved ALM off Wi-Fi. Guest VLAN DHCP renew was killing the lease every 30 minutes.

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