How to Install PSCAD 4.5.3_withcoverpage_v[2]

PSCAD 4.5.3

INSTALLATION GUIDE

Prepared By:

M.A. Mohammed Manaz

Temporary Lecturer (2013/2014)

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Faculty of Engineering

University of Peradeniya

PSCAD 4.5.3 INSTALLATION GUIDE 1

This document would give a step by step guide to install PSCAD 4.5.3 and to configure it to run

using the PSCAD network license, owned by the Department of Electrical and Electronic

Engineering (DEEE), University of Peradeniya. Please refrain from using this guide if you are

not authorized by the respective authority to access the license server.

In order to install the PSCAD 5.4.3 on your computer, you have to first connect to the license

server by creating a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection. (A step by step guide to create a

VPN connection in attached below). Then launch the setup.exe from PSCAD installation CD and

follow the installation wizard.

A. How to create a VPN connection to license server at DEEE

Following is a step by step guide to create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) from a client to the

VPN server at license.ee.pdn.ac.lk. Note that the required login details are given in the email.

Step 1: Open Network and Sharing Centre

(Following guide to connect your computer to the VPN of

license server may apply only for Windows 7. For other

versions of windows find Microsoft support on How to

connect to a VPN)


Step 2: Press Setup a new connection on network from the following window

Step 3: From the following dialog box select Connect to a workplace and press Next


Step 4: Select No, create a new connection and press Next from the following window

Step 5: Select Use my Internet connection (VPN)


Step 6: Enter the following information on the respective fields and press Next

Internet address: license.ee.pdn.ac.lk

Destination name: DEEE_License_VPN (or any preferred name of your choice)

Step 7: Enter the login information that you got from the license server administrator

Step 8: Make sure that your computer is connected to the internet and press Create

DEEE_License_VPN

Staff


Step 9: Once the connection is created press Connect Now and wait till you get the following

window

Step 10: Once the VPN connection is established, go to Network sharing center and click on the

VPN connection.

Step 11: Then go to properties.

Step 12: In the new dialog box go to Networking Tab and from the list double click on

Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)


Step 13: From the properties window, click on Advance button, and from the Advance TCP/IP

setting window, uncheck Use default gateway on remote network


Note: you may disconnect from the VPN using the following pop up window.


B. How to install PSCAD 4.5.3

Step 1: Insert the PSCAD 4.5.3 installation CD and launch setup.exe

Step 2: From the installation wizard press install (during the installation you may be requested to

accept the EULA)

Step 3: select appropriate folder to install the PSCAD and click next

Step 4: Now you would be asked to select the list of products that you wish to install. From the

list, you may have to select PSCAD and other optional software. But avoid installing License

Manager. Then press next.


Step 5: Then you would be asked to select the PSCAD license manager options. Select PSCAD

will use a license manager on another machine on your network and enter the machine IP

address as 192.168.19.1 and press OK. Then continue with the installation wizard.


If you have correctly configured the VPN connection, then connection to the license server

would be confirmed in the following window.


Step 6: Click Next and wait till the installation finishes. During the installation you may get the

following dialog box.

Step 7: Just press OK and wait for the installation to finish installing sentinel drivers.

Step 8: Once the installation is finished press Finish to exit the installation wizard.

Step 9: Before launching PSCAD make sure that you are connected to the license server through

VPN.

Step 10: In order to launch PSCAD 4.5.3, Go to start menu> All Programs> PSCAD>PSCAD

X4 and select PSCAD v45

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