[UW-GIS-L] Re: SDE.GIS.WASHINGTON.EDU offline

[Jeff Hepinstall]

It appears that my license server, zeus, is unhappy with my adding the 
ArcGIS 9.0 license to it yesturday. Attempting to correct. In  the 
meantime, try using the other server, ? - I've forgotten which one it 
is, but the gis.washington.edu webpage should tell.

Sarah Rodda wrote:

>I appear to be having the same issue.
>Thanks,
>Sarah Rodda
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Elizabeth J. Cassel" <ecassel at u.washington.edu>
>To: <lwrogers at u.washington.edu>; "UW - GIS Discussion & Support"
><uw-gis-l at u.washington.edu>
>Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 9:37 AM
>Subject: RE: [UW-GIS-L] Re: SDE.GIS.WASHINGTON.EDU offline
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>>Hello all!
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>>So I've changed the license server using the Desktop Administrator and
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>neither the ESRI_LICENSE_FILE or LM_LICENSE_FILE are environment variables
>on my machine, but I'm still getting this License error message when I try
>to run any Arc 8.3 apps:
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>>Cannot read data from license server
>>The license server process appears to be running, but is not responding.
>>
>>Does anyone know how to fix this?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>Elizabeth
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>>
>>__________________________________________________________
>>Elizabeth J. Cassel
>>GIS Analyst | NearPRISM | Marine Geology & Geophysics
>>Box 357940 | University of Washington | Seattle WA 98195
>>206.616.9407 | ecassel at u.washington.edu
>>
>>On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Luke Rogers wrote:
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>>>Glad it worked Nathan!
>>>
>>>The default behavior of the licensing mechanism is that it looks for the
>>>ESRI_LICENSE_FILE or LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable first. If it
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>finds
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>>>that then it will use it. So either make sure you have the environment
>>>variable set correctly or just delete it entirely and use the Desktop
>>>Administrator.
>>>
>>>-Luke
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: uw-gis-l-bounces at mailman.u.washington.edu
>>>[mailto:uw-gis-l-bounces at mailman.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Nathan
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>A.
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>>>Cosgray
>>>Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 4:09 PM
>>>To: UW - GIS Discussion & Support
>>>Subject: Re: [UW-GIS-L] Re: SDE.GIS.WASHINGTON.EDU offline
>>>
>>>Luke Rogers very helpfully suggested that I remove the ESRI_LICENSE_FILE
>>>environment variable from my systems -- worked like a charm.
>>>
>>>So, if anyone else has weird problems setting the license server name,
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>just
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>>>make sure that environment variable is not present...
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>>>thanks!
>>>-n.
>>>
>>>Nathan A. Cosgray wrote:
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>>>>Thanks for sending out the announcement about this issue.
>>>>
>>>>Meanwhile, what should my users do if they want to use the Arc
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>software?
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>>>>I've removed sde.gis from the ESRI_LICENSE_FILE environment variable,
>>>>leaving the other three license servers, but this does not seem to
>>>>work; we still get license errors.
>>>>
>>>>I've also tried using Desktop Administrator to remove sde.gis but when
>>>>I replace its entry with another of the license servers, I get an
>>>>"invalid server" error message.
>>>>
>>>>I'm new to the ESRI software management way, so if there are any
>>>>tricks or tips that someone could offer, I'd really appreciate it.
>>>>
>>>>thanks!
>>>>-n.
>>>>
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>>>--
>>>Nathan A. Cosgray
>>>Windows System Administrator
>>>CSDE Computer Core
>>>ncosgray at u.washington.edu
>>>206-543-2668
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Jeffrey A. Hepinstall
Faculty Research Associate
Box 352100
Urban Ecology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-2100
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