License Administration

eCognition License Manager eCogLM

The eCognition License Server 10.1 provides a license administration tool called eCogLM to manage your licenses.

It can be found in C:\Users\[User]\AppData\Local\Trimble\eCognition License Server 10.1\bin\eCogLM.exe.

This tool is using port 8888 to validate licenses. Make sure your firewall does not block port 8888 through the internet. eCogLM allows you to:

eCognition License Manager - Activated licenses

License Return - Hardware or Operating System updates

Important - When a machine is to be replaced or re-formatted or before you reinstall or update the Operating System, you have to return your license(s) to Trimbles web-based eCognition license pool using the eCognition License Manager eCogLM . If you do not return the license(s) they can be unrecoverable on the machine.

To activate the license again on another machine or re-activate after formatting of a machine, please install the eCognition license server and follow the steps mentioned in the chapter above.

eCognition License Borrowing eCogLB

The eCognition License Borrowing tool (eCogLB.exe) allows you to check out and return licenses from the network for local usage up to one month. It is included in the installation of the eCognition client software packages.

eCogLB allows you to:

Installation of eCogLB

In order to make use of the eCognition License Borrowing tools you must:

During the installation of the client software, the user will be prompted to select the components to install. The installation comprises four components: eCognition Developer, SDK, NVIDIA GPU-accelerated TensorFlow Library and License Borrowing. By default the License Borrowing component will be installed.

If the License Borrowing tool was not selected during the installation, please run the installation of the client software again with the License Borrowing component activated.

eCognition client software installation with default components selected for installation.

Once the installation of the client software is complete on the user machine(s), the selected components will be available from the Windows Start Menu. The eCognition License Borrowing tool is available e.g. here within the Trimble > Developer folder.

 

eCognition License Borrowing within Windows Start Menu.

How to Borrow a License

To borrow an eCognition License both the License Server host machine and the user machine that needs to borrow the license must be in the same network.

eCognition License Borrowing dialog

eCognition License selected and expiration date defined

Borrowed license listed in the ‘Borrowed’ window

Now the license is ready for use on the new machine.

How to Return a Borrowed License

To return a borrowed license before the defined borrowing period expires take the following steps:

 

Returning the borrowed license early.

 

License Server Administration lmAdmin

lmadmin is a graphical user interface for your license server administration. Open http://localhost:8090 with a web-browser. It is splitted in a Dashboard and an Administration panel.

Dashboard panel

The Dashboard panel provides a license overview and shows license server alerts.


Dashboard - Activatable and Critical selected

The Concurrent mode gives information on which licenses are in use or available and when the respective licenses will expire.


Dashoard - Concurrent and Important selected

In the Concurrent mode you can select Host to get an overview on the users and display names of licenses in use.


Host - License Overview, User Names and Export functionality

Administration panel

The Administration panel of lmAdmin provides system information and allows you to configure lmAdmin users. You obtain information on license server alerts and the vendor daemon. The Administration panel login information is per default:

The most important settings for the server port can be found in the Server configuration tab. The default port for the license server manager port is 27000. If necessary you can change the port here.


Administration Server Configuration Tab

 

Change License Server Port

To change the license server TCP port please open http://localhost:8090 with a web-browser on the license server machine and log in to the administration area (the default user/password is admin/admin):

Select Administration Tab

 

Open the Server Configuration tab and click on License Server Configuration. Choose a port number between 27000-27009 and confirm with 'save'.

Select Sever Configuration - License Server Configuration

 

 

 

You will need to restart the eCognition License Server service under the Windows services to finish your changes:

Restart eCognition License Service