

In some cases, a products activation requires a specific dongle type. There is speculation that the trial period info may be stored on the hard drive boot sector. FactoryTalk Activation supports Rockwell Automations Universal Serial Bus (USB) dongles. You do have the option to activate using a usb dongle but haven't seen an emulator yet. You can emulate the mac in VMware or Virtual box (at least I have). This is reported to the os from the manufacture info on the drive and can't be changed. I don't know of a way to emulate the hard drive serial ( intercept it in the code maybe?). Select Move Files To install Dongle drivers, please follow this steps: Download and extract. If you are moving the activation from a computer without a connection to the Internet, you must use another Internet-connected computer to connect to the Rockwell Automation Licensing website, to complete the process. You can buy concurrent software and activations can be issued to other machines as needed depending on the license count. For this Part, have a removable storage device ready (for example, a USB) to move the Activation file. The activation can be moved to another machine but again Rockwell has to generate a new license ( number of moves is limited a year) unless it is activated to a network card and the card is moved with the license. The activation license has to be generated for the user by Rockwell ether on-line or by email after the software is installed. On the FactoryTalk Activation Manager Home page, click Get New Activations. I know that it uses the mac address of a Ethernet card or the actual manufacture serial # of the hard drive depending on the activation type.
