error when testing LicenseManager extension for Monitor 10.7.1

Question

I have installed the License extension and am trying to configure it in ArcGIS Monitor 10.7.1 on Windows 2016.

I have 2 other extensions installed, so in ArcGIS Monitor Administrator, I can create a new Ext counter and add the name, Type: License; port 27003; host name of the machine running the license manager. I've set Sample Interval to 5 minutes the default. I'm using a copy of lmutil.exe from our license server which is running LicenseManager version 2019.0.

When I click Test, I get:

Error: Unexpected error occurred while running machine.

I've confirmed connectivity between the monitor server and the license server machines on the port documented above.

I see my Tests of the LicenseManager extension in a log that is created by the support.bat, but no additional details about the error.

Has anyone else seen this error with another extension or with the Licensemanager extension?

Thanks,

Allan

AllanAxon1 · Answer

Michael,

I assume you are logging in to the ArcGIS Monitor server with the same Domain Account that is running the collector service and not some other user (ex. your personal account)

The collector service (called the Monitoring Service in much of the documentation) is running as Local System (by default). I am getting ready to switch the Monitoring Service to a service account so that we can use the FileReadWrite Extension and test reading and especially writing to a share (we have up to 6 10.5.1 machines in one of our clusters). I am running the lmutil lmstat command that I reported on as an admin user account.

I will aim to run the collector/Monitoring Service as a service account and also test the lmutil exe by running it as that same account. I will post here with my results.

Thanks,

Anonymous User · Answer

All I can say is if you can successfully run the following command from the command prompt and get all the expected license data in the output, then it should also work in ArcGIS Monitor if you use the same license server name and port number.  I assume you are logging in to the ArcGIS Monitor server with the same Domain Account that is running the collector service and not some other user (ex. your personal account).

lmutil.exe lmstat -s 27000@myserver.esri.com -a -c @myserver.esri.com

"Note: There may be only one instance of License Manager type per collector" below the Host field in the License Manager configuration page in ArcGIS Monitor Administrator.

Yes - the above statement means that in the ArGIS Monitor Administrator tree on the left hand side, when you look under your collector, that one collector can only be configured with one License Manager extension.

AllanAxon1 · Answer

Michael, Thanks for the steps and instructions. I was able to confirm that the lmutil.exe is not corrupt and can connect from the ArcGIS Monitor server to the license server machine. I was able to use "lmutil.exe lmstat" using several different flags and received the information I would expect. I did notice that even though I specify the 27003 port for 27003@, I also receive information from our FME license server running on 27005 (27005@). I had noticed a "Note: There may be only one instance of License Manager type per collector" below the Host field in the License Manager configuration page in ArcGIS Monitor Administrator. I had ignored this because FME is not listening on 270003, but when running lmutil lmstat, I'm also receiving FME license information. I neglected to mention the presence of the FME license server on this machine. Is that a problem?