INSTALLATION PROCEDURE OPCENTER RDL V2204

DEMO

OVERLAY

Date of publishing: 15th Sep , 2022

1. Download and install Opcenter RDL V2204 Demo VM

1.1. Scope
This procedure explains how to
- download the Base VM and the Opcenter RDL V2204 Demo Overlay for Siemens PL employees and for
partners
- apply the Opcenter RDL V2204 Demo Overlay on the local Base VM
- install the Opcenter RDL V2204 license key
Remark: It is not compliant to provide a copy of a Siemens PL Demo “internal” VM to any non Siemens PL
employee.
This demo environment supports Demo Kit “SLT_023.001_GBL_Formulated Product Design_CPR” and
“SLT_022.001_Laboratory Managment_CPR”.

1.2. List of Software

For the “Siemens PLM” and “Third Party” software that is available as part of the Base VM, please look at the
corresponding Server Setup document that you will download together with the Base VM.

The list below identifies the additional software available as part of the Opcenter RDL V2204 Demo Overlay.

Siemens PLM Third Party

Opcenter RDL 2204 n/a

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1.3. Download base VM and Overlay

How to get it? Internal Siemens Employees and Partners: Use your authorized webkey to connect.
The Virtual Machine Catalog on Demo Center is developed to support our Pre-Sales community
who wishes to have a Virtual Machine to do a customer demonstration.

Partners Please Note: Once you download Virtual Machine, you will need to update it with your own
Microsoft Licenses, as well as Siemens software licenses.

Notice that the Catalog item for the “Base VM” is named like “ I1_Siemensdc_MMMYYYY”.
To find the Catalog item for the Opcenter RDL V2204 Demo, you can type in the Demo kit name (see §1.1)
in the “Search” field.

1.4. Installation Base VM

Extract Image by double-clicking Base_I1_Siemensdc_MmmYYYY[_External].part01.exe from download
directory
- Accept End User Agreement
- Identify extraction directory (No spaces in directory path name)
Make necessary changes in VMware Workstation Player to support Network Adaptor NAT settings. You
have to use the files from the NAT folder in the base package
Update Hosts file by entering 127.0.0.1 siemensdc siemensdc.net.plm.eds.com
Start VMware Workstation Player (version 12.5 or higher)
Open VM file Base_I1_Siemensdc_MmmYYYY[_External].vmx from extraction directory
- Edit Memory Setting to 8 GB
- Make sure the Network Adaptor is set to NAT (default value)
- Start VM (Power On) and select “I moved it” option in case it is asked whether you moved or copied the
VM
- Login: administrator/pass@word1 (@ = <shift + 2> on non-US Keyboard)
More detailed information about the base VM can be found in the following document which is also part of
the download (ignore any information related to the overlay as this is explained in the next paragraph):

Remark: Partners need to install the required licenses in the base VM.

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1.5. Installation Overlay

Enable Shared Folders in the “Virtual Machine Settings” of your VM, to have access from within the VM to
the location where you have downloaded the Overlay package (see §1.3).
Navigate from the Network “Shared Folders” or any drive-mapping that you have configured for it inside the
VM to the Overlay package download directory. The installation of the overlay is done in 3 steps (as a reboot
is required between the steps).
Remarks:
• In case you are re-using a VM where a previous version of the R&D Suite or Opcenter RDL
Overlay was already deployed, you will need to remove the old Overlay first by double-
clicking the Remove_Old_RnDSuite_OpcenterRDL_Overlays.bat and confirm to run it.
• After each reboot, a screen similar to the one below, may appear, telling the there is no
Overlay installed (yet). Please ignore this during execution of the Overlay installation steps.
You can simply close these windows.

Double-click on 1_InstallOpcenterRDL_Prerequisites.bat and confirm to run it.

- During the first few minutes of this installation step, the .NET Framework setup may popup some
confirmation dialogues that require your interaction.
Accept by marking the checkbox for the End User Agreement and click the Install button;
The setup may also ask to automatically close some programs for updating files. Click the
Yes button.
Click the Finish button at the end of the .Net Framework installation;
- Afterwards, the installation continues without interaction until reboot when finished by pressing any key.

Double-click on 2_InstallOpcenterRDL_Standard.bat and confirm to run it.

- Installation runs without interaction until Reboot at the end by pressing any key.

Double-click on 3_InstallOpcenterRDL_DemoCustomization.bat and confirm to run it.

- Installation runs without interaction until Reboot at the end by pressing any key.
Together with the “reboot” message, the script will also notify that appropriate Opcenter RDL
licenses need to be installed on this VM. (see § 1.6)

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1.6. Get Opcenter RDL V2204 licenses

1.6.1. Siemens PL employees
Generate a licence for Opcenter RD&L via : https://license.net.plm.eds.com/lws/#licensegenerator:main

Fill in the details like hostname (SIEMENSDC) and host ID. Host ID can be found via “ipconfig /all” on the
VM.

Select “SIMITIC IT R&D Suite” in the products list.

1.6.2. Partners
Contact your Channel Manager in order to get your Opcenter RDL licenses.

1.7. Install the Opcenter RDL V2204 licenses

Login in the VM as Administrator.
Start Windows Explorer.
Go to folder C:\Apps\PLM\License_Servers\Tc and right click on the file splm9.lic and select Edit with
Notepad++ from the menu.
Select all content of the license file obtained in §1.6 and copy/paste it as only content of file splm9.lic file on
the Demo VM.
Save the updated file splm9.lic and close Notepad++.
From the overlay package folder, double-click on Siemens PLM Licensing.exe.

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Complete the license installation.

Start an “elevated” (Run as Administrator) Microsoft Windows command prompt (cmd), enter iisreset
followed by the <Return> key.

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You can start a new Opcenter RDL browser session now.

Use the Chrome shortcut “Welcome - Opcenter RDL” on the VM Desktop
Or
Browse with the Chrome browser to the URL https://siemensdc/OpcenterRDnL

At first connection to the Opcenter RDL application, you will need to authenticate with valid user. (E.g. user
“siemens” with password “pass@word1”)

Subsequently, the Opcenter RDL webpage will appear, and Chrome will probably propose to save the
password for the user “siemens”. It is advised at this stage to click the [Never] button, because it will make
switching between different users during the Demo scenario, more difficult.

Tip
Chrome allows to define multiple “Profiles” by using the “Manage people” option behind the small
button at the top right corner of the Chrome browser (see below screenshot). You could
for example add additional persons (profiles) for each of the users that play a role in the Demo
scenario. In that case you can save the password for each of the users siemens, siemens2, etc. in their
own Chrome profile environment. Once you have configured multiple Chrome profiles, you can
switch to a different user using that same icon at the top right corner.

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Clicking the [Home] button will display the full Homepage, and a second dialogue for providing user
credentials will popup, because the Reporting shortcuts displayed in the Launchpad have a separate
connection that needs authentication. Also here, you can to authenticate with any valid user. (Usually the
same as in the previous logon. E.g. user “siemens” with password “pass@word1”)

1.8. Known issues

1.8.1. Planned Effective Date (PED) maintainer
During the execution of the Overlay scripts, a Windows Scheduled Task will be setup to run the R&D Suite
“Planned Effective Date (PED) maintainer” at 2:00 AM every day.
Because the first execution may have been triggered while there was no Opcenter RDL license installed yet,
and because later on, the demo machine may not be running at the time this “PED Maintainer” task is
scheduled, the Planned Effecive Dates may not have been updated as required. To address these potential
issues, we recommend to execute the following manual step.
Go to https://siemensdc/DemoDashboard and click the Trigger PED button

1.8.2. Java script error message

During execution of the demo scenarios, it may happen that you encounter a Java script error (log4javascript
popup). This was also observed during validation testing of previous demo Overlay versions. Unfortunately,
the circumstances for this error are not clear and could not be reproduced. Nevertheless, we did not discover
any functional impact, and we expect that it should not prevent you from continuing the demo scenario.

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1.8.3. “No server license is available!” message

After startup of the Demo VM, it may happen that you get the error message “No server license is available!”
when accessing the application with the browser, while you did correctly install the required licenses. The
reason for this may be that the IIS Web application components were activated before the License Server was
able to get and make the licenses available.
In such case, start an “elevated” (Run as Administrator) Microsoft Windows command prompt (cmd), enter
iisreset followed by the <Return> key.
After this and refresh of your browser session, the error message should disappear, and you should get access
to the application.

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