Monday, July 14, 2008

ArcGIS 9.3 License Manager...Where are my licenses!


Don't know if anyone has had this problem. I just updated our license manager to 9.3 and now it doesn't want to dish out licenses. This drove me a little batty for a while because I would run through these trouble shooting steps and it would work and than later in the day it would stop working again. Well I finally noticed that when I would log out of the machine, the ARCGIS.EXE would stop running. That's when it hit me, the windows service isn't running. So I took a peek at windows services and what do I find? No ArcGIS License Manager Service! For some reason the install didn't create it. Well luckly I have this sweet little tool that I've been using since my VB6 days that can create a windows service from any .exe. Once I ran the tool and created the service everything was at one with the universe.

Update 08-29-08:
Use this exe "C:\Program Files\ESRI\License\arcgis9x\lmgrd.exe" to create the service and name the service "ArcGIS License Manager".

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Does this service work in Vista as well?
What exe do you need to start with the service (Arcgis.exe or lmgrid.exe)

Thanks.

Donny said...

I haven't tested it on Vista.

Use this exe "C:\Program Files\ESRI\License\arcgis9x\lmgrd.exe" to start the service and name the service "ArcGIS License Manager".

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