Maxsurf V8i Release 20.04 Notes

The following section describes the changes in Maxsurf 20.04 V8i suite of software. This is a patch to known issues in 20.03 V8i.

• 32-bit versions will run on Windows XP/Vista/7, and

• 64-bit versions will run on Windows 7 64-bit.

The following fixes and changes that have been made to fix known problems with release 20.03 V8i. It is highly recommended that you install the updated version of the software.

This is the first version of Maxsurf to support Trust Licensing. This is the same licensing system used by all other Bentley applications. It removes the need for the IEG License library and licenses are no longer checked out and checked in as the program is run. Instead trust licensing provides more flexibility by not restricting local license usage and instead recording license use and periodically sending those usage logs to SELECTserver. For detailed information on these license changes and how you can manage license usage, see the appendix to this file.

• 7819: An error where the heel arm criterion “Freeboard at equilibrium with heel arm” always passed has been fixed.

• A problem with the reporting under Windows 8 has been fixed. When sending the report to the internal Report window in Stability under the Windows 8 environment, graphics were not correctly inserted into the Report; this has now been fixed by inserting the graphics as bitmaps rather than vector-based drawings. Whilst this solution works, it is recommended to send the Report directly to MS Word if installed on the system.

• Immersion to underside of keel (USK) at user-defined draft marks are now reported at 90deg heel.

• 7772: A new "Range of Stability" criterion has been added. With this new criterion, the required range of stability depends on a fixed value plus a fraction of the equilibrium angle: RoS >= A + B φequilibrium

• 7745: Users can now input additional damping and stiffness to the Panel Method motions solver via 6x6 damping and stiffness matrix. These are input in the dialogs from the “Analysis | Mooring Stiffness…”and “Analysis | Viscous Damping” commands. The optional additional added mass, damping and stiffness data are not currently stored in the .skd or .skr files. Users are advised to store this data separately in a spreadsheet or text file and to use copy/paste between the spreadsheet and Motions. In the next Major version (21 v8i) these data will be saved in the .skd or .skr files.

In this release of MAXSURF, we have made a number of enhancements relating to the way SELECTserver licensing works. The major change is the adoption of Trust Licensing – the same licensing used by all other Bentley products. Trust licensing ensures uninterrupted access to run your Bentley software, regardless of the availability of licenses. To help you avoid project disruptions, SELECTserver enables Trust Licensing, which eliminates time wasted waiting to run software when licenses are not immediately accessible. In previous versions of MAXSURF, the IEG licensing service was used to check out a license when the application started up and check it back in when the program exited. This restricted the use of software once all the current licenses were in use. MAXSURF now uses the trust licensing approach that is a benefit of your Bentley SELECT subscription.

 

Trust licensing allows any member of your engineering team to run MAXSURF at any time and eliminates the need to have an uninterrupted connection to SELECTserver and consequently this provides greater flexibility and greater reliability in operation. Instead of requiring the connection to SELECTserver, MAXSURF simply records usage of the application and allows you to access reports to see how licenses are being used in your team. License usage is aggregated and reported back to SELECTserver on a regular basis, at least once every thirty days. This is the same usage reporting that has been occurring with your licensing up until now.

You can review your team’s usage of MAXSURF via a web-based interface through a wide range of reports. These reports are available at http://selectserver.bentley.com and let you see who used what software and when. This information will be valuable to you in ensuring that you are getting best value from your software. The designated account contact for your organization will have permission to login to this server and to review these reports. This SELECTserver web portal also includes tools for managing licenses including managing check-outs, forcing check-ins of licenses, if required, and controlling access to applications.

 

If your recorded usage shows a peak usage that is greater than the number of licenses that you own, your Bentley account manager will contact you to discuss the usage. They will review with you whether your current license portfolio matches your license needs and can recommend a range of options to true-up to ensure you have the licenses you need.

Peak usage is the maximum number of licenses that are used within any 1-hour period.

 

If you would like more information on SELECTserver , you can visit:

http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/SELECT+Server/

 

For more information on the benefits of trust licensing and the true-up process, you can visit:

http://www.bentley.com/trust

 

For full technical details on SELECTserver licensing, start with the Introduction section of the following user manual:

https://selectserver.bentley.com/BSS/Admin/Help/en/index.html

 

• Use the License Management Tool installed with your applications to view what licenses you have available on a particular machine.

• Ensure that your designated contact person and/or system administrator is able to sign in to selectserver.bentley.com (or to your company’s deployed SELECTserver) and view reports on usage

• Configure SELECTserver to send overusage messages to a designated administrator weekly

• Use the Scheduled Reports function in SELECTserver to send usage reports to a designated administrator weekly

• Use these email and web reports to better understand how your team uses MAXSURF licenses. In particular, the Peak Usage reports will indicate if your license usage matches your ownership.

• If you wish to control which licenses can be used on which machines, use the Client Access Restrictions command in the Site Configuration menu of selectserver.bentley.com to apply these controls.

• Communicate with your Bentley Account Manager about your license usage, particularly if you expect your peak usage to increase above the number of licenses you own. You may wish to review the True-Up document to best understand your options.

• Use license check-out only when you need to work off site without an internet connection for more than 30 days. There is no need to check out licenses when working in a connected environment and doing so will record that license as being continuously in use. This may add to your peak usage level.

Which versions of MAXSURF use trust licensing?

• • All MAXSURF products with a version number of v20.0.0.0 or later use trust licensing.

Can I use non-trust licensed and trust Licensed versions of MAXSURF on the same network?

• • Yes, you can mix and match trust and non-trust licensed versions of MAXSURF on the same network and even on the same project. Note that non-trust licensed versions will effectively be checking out the product license for the entire run time of the product or if offline it will continue to run until checked back in. To check out a license for offline use with trust licensing refer to the License Management Instruction at http://communities.bentley.com/products/licensing/w/licensing__wiki/license-management-tool.aspx

If I use more licenses than I own, will I automatically get a bill from Bentley?

• • If your license usage reports show that your peak usage is higher than the number of licenses that you own, your Bentley Account Manager will contact you and discuss options with you. These options may include adding more licenses, changing the mix of licenses that you own, short term leasing of licenses or changing how you use licenses.

Do I need an internet connection to use Trust Licensing?

• • For day to day use, a continuous internet connection is not required. You need an internet connection only when initially activating your license and at least once every month in order to record usage on the SELECTserver. It is also possible to manually submit usage logs if your security requirements mean that an internet connection is not possible.

Do multiple sessions of MAXSURF on one machine record multiple uses?

• • No, usage is recorded per machine. Multiple instances of an application running on the same machine records 1 use, it does not record multiple uses.

Our SELECT licensing agreement mentions peak usage within an interval. What is that interval and how is peak usage calculated?

• • An interval for a SELECT subscription is 1 hour on the clock e.g. from 11am to 12 noon. SELECTserver counts the number of licenses used from the license pool during each interval. The daily peak usage is the highest number of licenses used during any 1 hour interval of that day. See http://communities.bentley.com/products/licensing/b/licensing_blog/archive/2010/05/27/what-is-usage-and-how-is-it-calculated.aspx

Do I need to check out licenses to use MAXSURF?

• • There is no need to check out a license to your machine unless you are going to be working offline for 30 days or more. In fact, checking out a license will record the license as being in continuous use so this could potentially increase the calculation of your firm’s peak license usage.

Is the license usage logging secure and private?

• • Trust licensing uses the same usage logging mechanism you are using now with non-trust licensing. It transmits usage data using standard internet protocols and obscures user and machine names using a SHA-1 hash so that they cannot be read outside your company.

Where can I get training on how to understand and monitor license usage?

• • SELECT subscribers are able to access SELECT server training via the Bentley LEARN server.

We greatly appreciate any bug reports or suggestions you may have. Please report any bugs or anomalies you find through www.bentley.com/serviceticketmanager