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Friday, October 11, 2013

Installing NX 9 - Changes and Prerequisites

Earlier this month, NX 9 was released.  It is available for download at https://download.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com/download.php.  You will need your WebKey and password to access the Siemens FTP site.

Prerequisites:

1.      You will need at least SPLM License Server version 6.1.1.  This version is provided in the download/media of the NX 9 installation.  The download of the NX 9 installation would be the zip file from Siemens FTP site.  Media would be the installation DVD.  You can also download the latest version of SPLM License Server, version 6.3.0 from the Siemens ftp site at the link:  https://download.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com/siemens_plm_licensing/Installs/

2.      The SPLM License server install requires that Java 1.5+ is installed on the system.

3.      NX 9 License file.  You can verify the version of the license file by editing the license file in notepad or an editor.  The header will contain “version:  9”

4.      64 bit Operating System.

Minimum Certified Operating Systems


Windows XP and Vista

Windows XP support from Microsoft is ending and Vista was rarely deployed so these two versions of Windows are not supported by NX 9.  Siemens PLM Software has not performed testing on these versions and cannot resolve any issues related to NX 9 running on these operating systems.  If NX 9 is deployed on these versions of Windows, any issues will have to be replicated on Windows 7 before filing an incident report.

Changes involving the client (where the NX product is installed) machine’s environment variables.
With the NX 9.0 version you are able to run all versions from NX 5.0 to NX 9.0.  For clients with NX 8.5 down to NX 5.0 you will still use the old environment variable.

UGS_LICENSE_SERVER = 28000@<HostName>

Starting with NX 9, there is a new environment variable used on the client to point to the license server. 

SPLM_LICENSE_SERVER = 28000@<HostName>



As stated earlier, older versions will run by using the old environment variable (UGS_LICENSE_SERVER) and NX 9 and versions moving forward will use the new variable (SPLM_LICENSE_SERVER).  Both of these environment variables can exist on one client if you are running multiple versions.


Brandon Carter
Applications Engineer
Ally PLM Solutions Inc


3 comments:

  1. I have been trying to install NX 9.0 several times but it doesn't work. Just error "The desired vendor daemon is down [-97]". Please help me!!

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  2. For NX 9 , you may have to add a new variable for the old license variable (though not supposed to be that way) variable name UGS_LICENSE_SERVER and value of 28000@servername

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