- [Instructor] Now that we've completed
our SOLIDWORKS PDM Database and Archive Server installation,
including the SQL server,
let's go ahead and initiate
the SOLIDWORKS Network License Server.
So we can find that by going down to our Start menu,
scrolling down to SOLIDWORKS Tools,
and you see here I've got
SOLIDWORKS Network License Manager Server for 2017.
I'm going to go ahead and turn that on.
It says here that this network license
doesn't exist yet for the serial number
because we have to activate it.
So I'm going to go ahead and activate it now.
This is all done over the internet.
You can also load a file,
but typically now everybody does this through the internet.
So you just say go ahead and click Next.
Again, we're not going to do it through email,
we're going to do it automatically through internet,
so we keep that option checked,
similar to all the other activations and deactivations
we do with SOLIDWORKS products.
We have to put in our contact info, as always,
in case there's any issues.
So you can see it's reaching out to the servers
and activating it, and you can see
that I have Contributor, CAD Editor
and Viewer seats available for this PDM install.
Let's go ahead and click Finish.
Now this is what the SOLIDWORKS SolidNetWork License Manager
will look like when you open it from now on.
You can go in here and check your license usage.
So right now you can see nobody's using PDM.
So I have no list here.
All of my licenses are open and free.
I have my server listed.
By default, you're always going to see 25734@
and then the server location.
You can do License Borrowing here,
and you can also check the License Order,
so this dictates what kind of SOLIDWORKS PDM license
you're going to pull first.
Because I'm dealing with mostly CAD users,
I'm going to move up the CAD Editor and keep the Contributor,
which is our Manager Level license, down below it.
Now if we go back to the beginning
we can also see that the License Server has been started.
You can click on View Log
to find information about when the license was started,
different porting information,
and if you have any issues with your License Server,
you're going to need this file
to send in to your local reseller or an AE,
so they can troubleshoot and diagnose what's goin' on.
Let's go ahead and click OK.
I'm going to go back into my Start menu.
And now we can see we've got Archive Server,
Database Server and the Network License all installed.