Licensing

Licenses for logiccloud products can be obtained from our shop or the sales department.

In the licensing dashboard you can see your available and used licenses for logiccloud 365, logiccloud control, portal users, and HMI users.

Note

Related licensing topics:

• View and annotate a license key
• Set and update the maintenance period
• Licensing reports and dashboards (superadmin)
• License status on the edge device
• License logiccloud on a PLCnext device

logiccloud Control

In order to license a runtime on a device, you need to purchase a license key and install the correct Activation Service on your device.

Important

By default, the runtime starts on demo mode with 2 hours of runtime. Until an activation service is installed, it stays in demo mode.

On the edge device itself, the license state is surfaced live — Demo (with a countdown), Activating, or Activated — and activation events are written to the device activity log. See License status on the edge device for details.

Caution

When a runtime is in demo mode and the demo countdown reaches zero, the runtime stops automatically. Plan activation before the demo ends to avoid an unplanned production stop.

Activation Service

Please install the correct activation service for your device type. We’re rolling out activation services for different device types. If your device type is not listed here, you can still activate a license as you did before.

Device-specific activation guides:

• Activation Service for Raspberry Pi
• Activation Service for WAGO
• Activation Service for Windows
• License logiccloud on a PLCnext device

License Key

You receive one license key per runtime for logiccloud Control. You choose it from the License dropdown when creating or editing a device. Without a license key the runtime runs in demo mode for 2 hours at a time.

Choosing a license for a device

The dropdown offers:

• Demo license — always available, and the default.
• Every license key generated for your organization that is not already assigned to another device. A key in use elsewhere is not offered, so the same key cannot be assigned twice.

Each entry shows the product, the included features, the tag count and the maintenance status, so you can tell the keys apart without looking them up.

Caution

Once a device has been saved with a license other than the demo license, the field is locked and the license cannot be changed. Choose carefully — correcting it afterwards is not possible from this dialog.

Seeing where a license is used

The license table in the organization settings shows, for every key:

• Device — the device the key is currently assigned to, empty when the key is unassigned.
• Activation Status — Activated, Activating, Not activated, or — when the device has not reported a status. The column is empty for an unassigned key, since there is no device to report one.

Together these answer which keys are free to assign, where a key went, and whether the device it went to has actually activated it.

After successfully saving, the new license information is displayed.

The logiccloud Runtime must be restarted for the license to take effect.

If you have subscribed to logiccloud Control Online Services, the functions are automatically available to you in the logiccloud IDE.

logiccloud 365

logiccloud 365 consists of 3 components that can be combined with each other as required:

• logiccloud Hub
• logiccloud CloudPLC
• logiccloud CloudHMI

In the logiccloud IDE under Licensing you can see an overview of your available and used licenses, users and consumed hub traffic.

logiccloud Hub and CloudPLC

Your licenses for logiccloud Hub and logiccloud CloudPLC are automatically available to you.

logiccloud HMI

For a user to have access to logiccloud HMI, the View HMI role must be assigned.