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This video provides a look at how to use the FactoryTalk Optix runtime sizing tool in FactoryTalk Hub.
The FactoryTalk Optix Runtime Sizing Tool helps users determine the appropriate runtime license for their application. This tool recommends the right runtime size, preventing over- or under-provisioning of system resources.
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https://home.cloud.rockwellautomation.com/
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https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-id/docs/factorytalk-hub/current/factorytalk_hub-ditamap/ftcs_getting_started.html
Transcript
(00:03) when you’re trying to figure out what size runtime license to purchase for Factor talk Optics there are a few bundled U options you know based on the number of feature tokens so at first you know you could just look up the catalog number and determine how many feature tokens you need for your application so for Factor talk Optics you know to actually deploy the runtime you would need the factor talk Optics runtime license and again it’s so sold in bundles by the number of tokens so uh I’m inside of proposal works right now
(00:36) and just looking at those options for fer talk Optics runtime um they they kind of call them Light extra small light small standard medium standard large Pro XL as well as a pro unlimited which would give you um unlimited you know tokens essentially but they kind of are U sold in tiers you know going from five tokens up to 21 tokens and then the unlimited um but how do you know how many tokens um you’re going to need also want to show you if you if you’re not in proposal works you can also see the um the the factor talk Optics runtime uh
(01:18) license options inside of the Rockwell Automation software portal if you go into the software portal we can see F talk Optics runtime extra small with five feature tokens either a Perpetual or subscription option available um the small which gives you eight tokens medium for 11 large for 15 and extra large with 21 but again we don’t maybe we don’t know how many tokens we need um before you develop your application so there is a way to estimate that and if you go into Factor talk Hub um which basically uh you can log in
(01:58) with your standard Rockwell um log in you don’t have to have any special entitlements or licenses to to log into the Hub other than just having an account and then if you go into the Optics section and again you don’t have to have an entitlement to come to this point of factory talk Optics the only time you would have to have an entitlement would be is if you wanted to open the studio editor inside of your browser here in the cloud that would require the factory talk Optics Studio Studio Pro subscription to be able to
(02:33) access this in the in the cloud but you can come into this part of Optics with no entitlements and you can download Optics Studio to your desktop and run it on your desktop all all all from here um but if you wanted to get an idea of what you know how many tokens you might need for your application you’re going to come up here to runtime sizing um to start to work through a little a little bit of a a wizard so to speak that can help guide you into how many tokens you’re going to need beforehand so uh First Step will be the
(03:10) the presentation engine how are you going to um present is it going to be the native HMI client which would take one token to uh to do or are you going to uh have some web HMI clients and then based on the number of sessions concurrent sessions you might actually need for those web HMI clients you would choose either 1 3 5 10 20 or unlimited and notice that as I kind of check these uh a little running total starts to uh show up here at the top so right now I’ve checked you know native HMI client and a single web HMI client session so
(03:51) that is going to take two tokens at the moment and it’s recommending you’re in the extra small because that would be a five token package but we’re going to keep on going probably going to have some more tokens obviously to add uh if we hit the next we will get to our features these are the various features that uh we can turn on or use inside of Optics so some of the features that will you know take a token to unlock things like alarming recipes uh active directory authentication basic reporting uh audit signature capture
(04:30) capure runtime retentivity event logger Data Logger um store and forward capabilities and then we have some options for database so we have the kind of a a standard uh embedded database inside of Optics basically a sqlite uh database um or we can choose to have connections to obbc uh databases and basically by the number of of connections we might need our tokens will will kind of tiar up so we have um one three or five connections or again we have an option for unlimited here um if we want to use the unlimited runtime
(05:15) license and uh we also have a the new you know came about in uh in one of the last releases of Optics is the influx DB so we have the ability to enable an embedded influx DB database for one token or we can choose the same like number of remote connections be it 1 35 or even unlimited uh each costing a few tokens more all right so as we continue to check things we see now we’re at four tokens we’re still under you know in our um in our Light extra small sizing um but if I were to turn on things like Data Logger and alarming you’ll see that
(05:53) we now have bumped up into six and that brings us up to the small uh runtime light license go ahead and uh choose next now we’re going to choose our connect our connections or our PLC communication drivers that we might need to um use so uh if we’re doing Rockwell Communications then if we’re going to talk to just a single controller that does take one token if we’re going to use multiple connections for multiple controllers then that will take two tokens notice that there is a token buyback basically if we are running Optics on a piece of
(06:33) Rockwell Hardware so if you’re running an Optics panel or if you’re running it on a on one of Rockwell’s awesome industrial PCS um or the embedded compute module or even the the new Optics Edge device then we will actually get one token back um uh as a credit for using Rockell Hardware other options we have available is Beck off you know know single multiple and even a token to do runtime uh tag uploads uh Cod assists single or multiple connections mishishi melc um uh both the uh the the 3u and the 5 U uh both give us either single or
(07:20) multiple connection options here we have options for the Omron ethernet IP driver um single or multiple connections the Armon fins driver single or multiple Seaman S7 TCP single or multiple or the S7 Tia pry net driver which gives us single multiple and the runtime tag upload capability notice that those options for the other uh thirdparty controllers that don’t have the um runtime tag upload then those controllers would be an offline tag import required and then we do have uh modbus driver either single or multiple
(08:02) connections that’ be for modbus TCP or lastly a Serial driver uh either multiple a single or multiple for such as like a modbus um rtu connection right so we got our uh we can pick what we need to connect to and how many connections we need to make we choose next and then this brings us to our uh interoperability section which is all about opcua and mqtt clients um and servers for opcua so uh basically if you’re going to be an opcua client then we will choose either single or multiple um servers if we’re going to be an opcua
(08:49) server then we can choose you know how many clients are we going to have be it 1 3 5 10 20 or the possibility of unlimited again using the unlimited license uh if we’re going to do mqtt connections then we have uh we have the client uh so basically if we’re going to be a subscriber it’s going to take one token for each client connection if you’re going to be a publisher it’s going to take one token for each client connection and also it came about in version 1.
(09:28) 5 is the embedded mqtt broker so if we want to be a broker that will take one token so the broker shows 1 to 25 clients that’s basically the limit right now is 25 uh clients Max for the broker so that takes one token and the other option here is none so it’s just basically not enabled so as we go through these uh all these um options here you choose the features that you’re going to need for your application and then you’re going to choose next here at the end and it kind of summarizes your selections and it gives you the the um the recommendation for the package it said
(10:06) that based on what I selected um I need seven tokens and that is a small runtime license and it even gives you the catalog numbers based on if you’re going to be doing um self assist support Monday Monday through Friday 8 to5 or 24/7 support you get your three catalog numbers for that now um you can also see how many tokens you’re going to need when you’re inside of optic Studio as well so as if you’re developing your application and you don’t really know ahead of time some of these things as you develop your
(10:47) application inside of faor talk Optics Studio which is the development tool it will tell you how many tokens that you would need to to run that application so that’s a quick summary of the um of the runtime sizing tool again to get to that you have to go to factor talk Hub and then once you’re at HUB you go to Optics and then once you get to the Optics page you come here to runtime sizing
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