The desired vendor daemon is down

Problem

After authorizing licenses, the Geocom License Manager terminates with the following message: The desired vendor daemon is down. Afterwards, the program can no longer be started.

Cause

The license file was created or modified in the wrong format.

Solution 1

Ensure that the first line consists of three parts:

• the keyword SERVER

• the keyword this_host

• the specification of a specific port number or ANY

Example: SERVER this_host 27001

Incorrect entries would be, for example, SERVER localhost this_host ANY or SERVER this_host ANY 99999

Solution 2

• Open a console with admin rights

• Display the PID that uses the GEOCOM port

• Open Task Manager and identify the program by PID

• Stop and disable the FlexNet service

• Stop the Geocom License Server service

• Close all ArcGIS, GEONIS, etc. windows

• The PID must be gone; otherwise, forcibly terminate it

• Start the FlexNet service and wait

• Start the Geocom License Server service