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Last updated: October 14, 2008

CSU system-wide license for ESRI products

Since 1969, ESRI has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, ESRI software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. ESRI applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world’s mapping and spatial analysis. ESRI provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit ESRI at www.esri.com.

Site licenses for software products from Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI, Redlands, California) are a major benefit included in the subscription. Included are: unlimited licenses for ArcGIS (Desktop and ArcINFO) and extensions (3D Analyst, Geostatistical Analyst, Network Analyst, Spatial Analyst, ArcPress, TIN, COGO, GRID, Arcscan, Arcstorm) on Windows and UNIX platforms; ArcView 3.x and 8.2 and Avenue on all platforms (UNIX, PC/Windows, Macintosh); PC ArcINFO (DOS and Windows); and 20 ArcCAD licenses per campus. For a complete list of the current products, please see the current Site License product list. Each campus has a site license administrator.

Definitions:

ArcView 9 (standalone) refers to ArcView 9. The current version is 9.1. It consists of the following modules: ArcCatalog, ArcMap and a limited ArcToolbox. It utilizes a single–use license software key registration number similar to the one used for ArcView 3.x. Once registered at ESRI’s Web site, you receive a license file.

ArcEditor 9 (standalone) refers to the recent release of a standalone version of the second level of ArcGIS 9. The current version is 9.1. It consists of the following modules: ArcCatalog, ArcMap and a more powerful ArcToolbox than standalone ArcView 9.1. It utilizes a single–use license software key similar to the one used for ArcView 3.x. As above, this is a registration number. No hardware key is required.

ArcGIS 9 refers to the package consisting of ArcView (ArcCatalog, ArcMap and a limited ArcToolbox), along with ArcEditor (ArcCatalog, ArcMap and a more powerful ArcToolbox), and ArcINFO Desktop (including the most powerful ArcToolbox). In addition, one can also install concurrently ArcINFO Workstation. These utilize a concurrent use license file that requires a hardware or sentinel key (dongle) or UNIX machine serial number.

Software key refers to the registration code or number found that used to be sent as stickers in the product box from ESRI. These are now sent via a letter to the site license primary contact for each campus. These are for the single-use licensed products like ArcView 9 (standalone) or ArcEditor 9 (standalone) with separate software keys for the available extensions. In addition, ArcIMS and ArcSDE also require a registration number.

Hardware or Sentinel key refers to either a reddish/orange or grey serial port dongle that is attached to the parallel port of a Windows computer or server running ArcGIS, or to the purple USB dongle for use in USB ports. The number on the dongle is used to generate a license file for ArcGIS (concurrent use).

For a UNIX machine, no dongle is required. Instead, the serial number of the UNIX computer or server is used to generate the license file for that machine.

Licenses:

Single-use software

The single-use licensed copies of ArcView 9 (standalone) or ArcEditor 9 (standalone) run on a single machine not server. They require the use of the software key number beginning with UNK that were sent via a letter by ESRI to the primary site license coordinator at each campus. (Note: We are authorized to install them on as many CSU-owned machines on campus as we want.) These registration numbers are used to generate a .esu license file which does not need to be renewed each year.

The extensions for ArcView 9 (standalone) or ArcEditor 9 (standalone) are the same and are found on the cd, but the necessary software key numbers for each extension were sent via a letter by ESRI to the primary site license coordinator at each campus (ex. Spatial Analyst, 3D Analyst). You include these numbers when registering the software to obtain one license file. The extensions developed for standalone versions are to be used with those versions and not the concurrent versions.

Concurrent use software

The concurrent use ArcGIS including all levels [ArcView, ArcEditor and Desktop ArcINFO] requires a hardware or sentinel key for use on Windows machines. As stated above, for UNIX machines the key used to generate a license file is based upon the serial number of that machine. For each hardware key or serial number, a license file must be generated at the appropriate ESRI website: http://www.myesri.com/sitelogin.htm

The technical representative or board member at each campus has a login and password for this ESRI website where they may generate an unlimited number of licenses for ArcGIS as well as for the extensions that are part of our site license.