Tekla Structures 2020 Manage Tekla Structures March 2020 ©2020 Trimble Solutions Corporation Contents 1 Get started as a Tekla Structures administrator.......................9 1.1 Information sources for administrators ....................................................... 9 2 Tekla Structures installation for administrators.................... 11 2.1 Installation requirements..............................................................................11 2.2 Installing Tekla Structures.............................................................................12 2.3 Folder structure...............................................................................................13 2.4 Tekla Structures settings in the Windows registry.....................................14 2.5 Centralized installation of Tekla Structures................................................14 2.6 Installation in a virtual environment........................................................... 15 2.7 Installing the license server...........................................................................15 2.8 Installing .tsep packages................................................................................ 15 2.9 Collaborative modeling.................................................................................. 18 2.10 Upgrading Tekla Structures........................................................................... 18 2.11 Create start-up shortcuts with customized initializations........................ 19 Create a start-up shortcut with customized initialization.................................................19 Available parameters in shortcuts.......................................................................................21 Example of an initialization file............................................................................................ 22 2.12 Using Tekla Structures with application and desktop virtualization.......23 Prerequisites for using Tekla Structures in a virtual environment..................................24 Set up the virtual environment for Tekla Structures........................................................25 3 Manage licenses ..........................................................................27 3.1 Tekla Structures licensing system................................................................ 28 Checklist of Trimble deliverables needed in Tekla licensing............................................ 32 Checklist of IT resources needed in Tekla Structures licensing....................................... 33 Checklist for the Tekla license server administrator......................................................... 34 Rights needed for performing administrator's tasks in Tekla Structures licensing...... 35 Distributing and managing Tekla licenses..........................................................................35 Examples of different Tekla Structures licensing system setups.................................... 37 3.2 Installing Tekla license server....................................................................... 42 Which license server version to use .................................................................................. 43 Install Tekla license server - automatic installation...........................................................44 Install Tekla license server - manual installation............................................................... 45 Modify the license file tekla.lic manually............................................................................ 48 Configure Tekla license server manually............................................................................ 50 3.3 Allowing Tekla license server to operate through Windows Firewall...... 51 Allow exceptions in firewall for lmgrd.exe and tekla.exe: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and Windows Server 2012...............................................................................................52 Allow traffic in fixed TCP/IP ports: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and Windows Server 2012... 53 2 3.4 Activate Tekla licenses................................................................................... 62 How license activation works............................................................................................... 62 Activate Tekla licenses using automatic server notification.............................................63 Activate Tekla licenses using manual server notification................................................. 64 3.5 Preconfigure license server settings for users............................................ 66 3.6 Deactivate Tekla licenses...............................................................................67 Deactivate licenses................................................................................................................ 67 3.7 Maintain Tekla licenses ................................................................................. 69 Monitor Tekla license use..................................................................................................... 70 Modify Tekla license access rights (tekla.opt).................................................................... 71 Configuration codes and keywords used in access right definitions.........................72 Move licenses between license servers.............................................................................. 75 Repair a license...................................................................................................................... 76 Troubleshoot Tekla licensing ..............................................................................................78 View and diagnose errors in Tekla Structures license activation, deactivation and ................................................................................................................................................ 78 Problems in Tekla license server installation and connecting to the license server ............................................................................................................................................. 79 Problems in FlexNet.........................................................................................................81 Problems in Tekla license activation.............................................................................. 82 Problems in Tekla license deactivation..........................................................................86 Problems in Tekla license borrowing.............................................................................86 Problems in Tekla license trusted storage.................................................................... 87 Problems using LMTOOLS in Tekla licensing................................................................ 88 Problems in starting Tekla Structures............................................................................90 Problems with options file tekla.opt.............................................................................. 92 Problems in Tekla licensing: Error codes and their descriptions............................... 93 3.8 Set up license borrowing for offline use.....................................................100 Provide offline users with a customized product ID file.................................................101 Set up Tekla License Borrow Tool for Tekla Structures offline use...............................102 Borrow a license from Tekla license server......................................................................104 Return a borrowed Tekla license.......................................................................................105 4 Create and distribute customized configurations ................107 4.1 Implementation guide for administrators.................................................107 Customizing Tekla Structures............................................................................................ 108 Overview of environments, roles and licenses................................................................ 109 Folder structure................................................................................................................... 110 Project and firm folders......................................................................................................111 Folder search order.............................................................................................................112 Initialization files..................................................................................................................112 Setting advanced options in .ini files.................................................................................115 Creating shortcuts............................................................................................................... 116 Bypassing the login screen.................................................................................................117 User-defined attributes...................................................................................................... 118 4.2 Environment, company, and project settings for administrators.......... 119 Environment settings.......................................................................................................... 119 Company settings................................................................................................................120 Project settings...................................................................................................................