Update Enterprise Geodatabase License (Data Management)

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Summary

Updates the ArcGIS Server license in an enterprise geodatabase.

If your organization licenses ArcGIS Server for a set time period, your geodatabase administrator can run the Update Enterprise Geodatabase License tool with a new ArcGIS Server authorization file to update license information in the geodatabase before the existing license expires. This allows clients to continue working with the geodatabase without interruptions caused by expired licenses.

Usage

  • The input workspace must be an enterprise geodatabase. This tool does not work with file or mobile geodatabases.

  • You must connect to the enterprise geodatabase as the geodatabase administrator to run this tool.

Parameters

LabelExplanationData Type
Input Database Connection

Provide a database connection (.sde file) to the enterprise geodatabase you want to authorize with a new ArcGIS Server enterprise authorization file.

You must connect to the database as the geodatabase administrator.

Workspace
Authorization File

Provide the path and file name of the keycodes file generated when you authorized ArcGIS Server enterprise. If necessary, copy the file from the ArcGIS Server machine to a directory that the tool can access.

ArcGIS Server creates the keycodes file in the following location: \\Program Files\ESRI\License<release#>\sysgen (Microsoft Windows servers) or /arcgis/server/framework/runtime/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/ESRI/License<release#>/sysgen (Linux servers).

File

Derived Output

LabelExplanationData Type
Output Workspace

The updated enterprise geodatabase.

Workspace

Environments

Licensing information

  • Basic: No
  • Standard: Yes
  • Advanced: Yes

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