[UW-GIS-L] slow response from ESRI license servers

[Phil Hurvitz]

Several users have recently had very slow responses from the UW ESRI 
license servers (i.e., waiting several minutes for ArcGIS to start after 
clicking the shortcut to one of the executables). If this has been 
happening to you, note a few issues:

1. using the ARCGIS_LICENSE_FILE environment variable has apparently 
caused long wait times. You should remove this environment variable if 
it is set.

2. the Desktop Administrator at ArcGIS 9.3 allows you to enter multiple 
license servers, but only if all these servers are up at the time you 
enter the list of multiple servers. You should change this value to Not_set.

Please see

http://gis/esri/arcgis_install/campus_client.html#license_server

which gives instructions for how to specify license servers using the 
Windows Registry.

-P.

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   Phil Hurvitz, MFR | PhD Student, Urban Planning | Gould 317
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  University of Washington, Seattle, Washington  98195-5740, USA
  phurvitz at u.washington.edu | http://gis.washington.edu/phurvitz
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