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If you have other products licensed using Sentinel technology on the machine where you have installed your Team-GIS product you may find that you need to configure some environment variables in order for the products to co-exist.
The Team-GIS License Manager adds licenses to a Sentinel license file, the location of which is specified by the system environment variable LSERVRC. Note than on installation Team-GIS will not change the value of LSERVRC if it is already set, but if no pre-existing Sentinel license file is found then the LSERVRC environment variable is set as follows:
Note that LSERVRC will affect all products licensed using Sentinel on the same machine (including non-Exprodat products), and in order for all Sentinel licensed products to co-exist all Sentinel application licenses should be combined in the single Sentinel license file specified by LSERVRC. To do this open each product's Sentinel license file in a text editor and copy the data to the file specified by LSERVRC ensuring that there is only one license per line of the file. You should restart the license service to implement any such edits. |
With LSHOST you can tell the client to look at multiple license servers. If the required license is not found on the first license server then the next defined license server will be checked. If none of the specified license servers are found, then a broadcast is done in an attempt to get a license from any available license server.
Note that Team-GIS licensing is not affected by the LSHOST environment variable. However, LSHOST is required when other vendor applications employing Sentinel licensing need to coexist with Team-GIS products.
LSHOST has the following behaviour:
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The LSFORCEHOST environment variable selects a single license server. This forces all Sentinel protected applications (including Team-GIS applications) to look for the specified license server on the network, which eliminates time delays in finding the correct license server when compared with using LSHOST. However, with LSFORCEHOST no network broadcast is ever performed, so if the license server specified in LSFORCEHOST is not found, then the search stops and an error is returned.
A pre-existing LSFORCEHOST environment variable will most likely stop all Team-GIS products from being able to find the licenses they require, and in turn produce the error 'E0002 -- Could not get a license/Unable to contact any servers', examples of which are shown in the licensing FAQ's.
In general terms the best way to resolve such issues is to remove the LSFORCEHOST environment variable altogether (see the section below), although there may be instances when this is not an appropriate solution. If in doubt please contact Exprodat support.
Note that during installation of Team-GIS products (version 200 and above) a check is performed to see whether the LSFORCEHOST environment variable is present, and if it is you are presented with the option to change it to LSHOST, as this will not prevent Team-GIS products from being licensed and will additionally be benign in terms of any third party Sentinel protected applications. |
In order to remove the LSFORCEHOST environment variable please follow the process below:
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Changing LSFORCEHOST to LSHOST
In order to change the LSFORCEHOST to LSHOST such that the pre-existing third party applications and any Team-GIS applications can co-exist please follow the process below:
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