MES Model & Refactor^® (MES MoRe) - Installation instructions

System Requirements

The following system requirements must be in place to use MES MoRe:

• Windows (XP, Vista, Windows 7+8+10 - 32 and 64-bit versions)
• MATLAB® R2012b ... R2021a
• Simulink

Update from an older version

• If you added a call to init_MoRe to your startup.m and used a folder with version postfix (e.g. x:\project\matlab\MES_MoRe_2_10), then please update the call to the folder of the new installation (e.g. run('C:\Program Files\MES_MoRe_2_11\MoRe\init_MoRe');
• If you installed the old version to a folder with version postfix (e.g. x:\project\matlab\MES_MoRe_2_10), you can keep that directory as a backup.
• If you installed without version postfix, you could rename the old installation directory to one with version postfix as a backup.
• Then proceed according to the "Installation" section below. You can skip the "License configuration" part if a floating license in the old version is already installed.
• After installation, you can import all configuration files of the old version via "Import Previous Preferences" from the "Preferences" submenu of MoRe. This requires the old version to be 2.9 or newer. This import is only necessary if you have made changes to any of the configuration files from the "Preferences" submenu in the old version.

Installation

• Extract the MES MoRe zip file (e.g. MES_MoRe_2_11.zip) into a target folder with write access. Suggestions:
  • C:\Program Files\MES_MoRe
  • %MATLAB_ROOT%\toolbox\MES_MoRe_2_11
  • %MATLAB_ROOT%\toolbox\MES_MoRe
  • x:\project\matlab\MES_MoRe_2_11
  Please keep all the subdirectories.
• If you extracted the zip file to the MATLAB toolbox folder (%MATLAB_ROOT%\toolbox), then call rehash toolboxcache once in the MATLAB command line.
• For permanent installation (recommended):
  • Add a call to the MoRe\init_MoRe.m script from the target folder to your MATLAB startup.m file. Example call: run('C:\Program Files\MES_MoRe\MoRe\init_MoRe');
    Please make sure that there is no call to init_MoRe of an old installation left!
    If you are not sure whether you have any startup.m file yet, type which startup.m in MATLAB command line.
    If result is not empty, add the call from above to this file.
    If result is empty, create a new startup.m file in your userpath. Type userpath in MATLAB command line to get your userpath. Add the call from above to the newly created file (type also doc startup in MATLAB command line for help).
  • Restart MATLAB. There should be an MES MoRe menu entry in Simulink now.
• For temporary usage (not recommended):
  • Call init_MoRe from the MoRe subfolder of the target folder in the MATLAB command line. This might throw warnings like "Objects of XXX class exist - not clearing java", if other tools are holding locked references to java objects. In that case, please follow the instructions for permanent installation above.
• (optional) Some actions from the "Analyze" submenu require Graphviz to be installed:
  • Download and install Graphviz from http://www.graphviz.org/
  • Add the folder containing the dot.exe of Graphviz to the PATH environment variable of Windows (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Graphviz 2.28\bin).

License configuration

Evaluation version

Node-locked license

Floating license

Installation (Server)

Activation (Client)

• Ask for the host address (IP or domain name) of the license server and optionally the port to use.
• If not already open, open Matlab. Please check if you correctly installed MES MoRe as described above.
• Use the installFloatingLicense_MoRe() Matlab function and give the port and host as string parameter ('port@host'), e.g.:
  • installFloatingLicense_MoRe('3421@192.168.1.107') (port and IP)
  • installFloatingLicense_MoRe('3421@myserver.comp.com') (port and domain name)
  • installFloatingLicense_MoRe('3421@myserver') (port and intranet host name)
  • installFloatingLicense_MoRe('192.168.1.107') (only IP)
  • installFloatingLicense_MoRe('myserver.comp.com') (only domain name)

  The function copies the lismo.config file to the tool's AppData directory and creates the port@host entry. In case you are interested, you can get the directory with the created lismo.config file by launching path_MoRe() and mes.more.ToolAppData.ToolAppDataDir.

• Now you can use MES MoRe as long as the FlexNet server is available at this address.
  

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