CONDITIONS:
The user is intermittently unable to open ArcGIS (local installation) and connect to license server. The following error is presented:
The License server manager (lmgrd) has not been started yet, the wrong port@host or license file is being used, or the port or hostname in the license file has been changed.
Feature: Viewer
FLEXnet Licensing error: -15,570
CAUSE:
The cause seems to be that the default timeout setting for the FLEXLM license manager is 2-seconds. Which is more than ample on a LAN, but less than ideal on slower VPN’s, or DSL connections.
SOLUTION:
Solution can be found from this source http://blog.openlm.com/?p=321(referred to on several occasions). However, I would HIGHLY recommend that if this is indeed the patch, that we create a script for our clients to run rather than follow these steps.
- Right click My Computer and choose properties.
- On system property dialogue box choose advanced tab.
- Click on the environment Variables
- On environment variable dialogue box choose system variables field and hit the new button
- A new system variable dialogue box with two fields appears; put “FLEXLM_TIMEOUT” in variable name and put 1000000 in variable value field
- Click OK on all three dialogue boxes to close them