When I initially installed the 10.1 license manager on my Windows Server 2008 (64-bit, R2, Enterprise, on a VM) it worked like a charm - the install created an exception for TCP ports 27000-27009, and the License Manager handed out licenses to users like a dream.
I came to a point were it was necessary to manally stop the License Manager service from the Services control panel. After I started it back up, desktop users weren't able to contact the license manger and run AcGIS.
It's defintely the firewall because:
- I was able to run ArcCatalog on the license manager server (i.e. it contacted the license manager running on the local compuer)
- Turning Windows Firewall off solved the access problem for local computers.
For now Ive got Windows Firewall turned off on te server. But I'd eally like to fiure out what actually happened and how to fix it.
Why should Windows suddenly forget this exception (and not others like the built-in RDP exception)?
Event Viewer shows dropped packet events for these failures, but the bizzare part is that it's an Inbound connection from the license server's IP address to the desktop's IP address!
I came to a point were it was necessary to manally stop the License Manager service from the Services control panel. After I started it back up, desktop users weren't able to contact the license manger and run AcGIS.
It's defintely the firewall because:
- I was able to run ArcCatalog on the license manager server (i.e. it contacted the license manager running on the local compuer)
- Turning Windows Firewall off solved the access problem for local computers.
For now Ive got Windows Firewall turned off on te server. But I'd eally like to fiure out what actually happened and how to fix it.
Why should Windows suddenly forget this exception (and not others like the built-in RDP exception)?
Event Viewer shows dropped packet events for these failures, but the bizzare part is that it's an Inbound connection from the license server's IP address to the desktop's IP address!