To make the network online or offline activation follow the steps bellow:


1. ABBYY FineReader Engine Activation - Network license


1. Boot your servers for OptimiDoc and allow port "3022" for the licenseservice.exe executable for communication between servers.


2. Choose one of your servers as a license server for sharing your license.


3. Activate the license at that server with Online or Offline method.


4. Check the version of your license (NETWORK) by licencemanager.exe (<OptimiDoc installation folder>\OptimiDoc Server\OCR\Bin64\LicenseManager.exe)


5. Download .XML files for ABBYY network activation from here - DOWNLOAD -

Extract the downloaded file 'ABBYY Network.zip' to your preferred location.


6. On your license server, put the LicensingSettings.xml file (extracted from License Server subfolder) with the information about the server communication (TCP/IP) into folder <OptimiDoc installation folder>\OptimiDoc Server\OCR\Licensing. On your License Server, i.e. the server where you have activated the ABBYY and OptimiDoc, restart ABBYY license service with Task Manager.


7. Client server: You will need to put the file LicensingSettings.xml (extracted from License Client subfolder) with the information about the server communication (TCP/IP) and IP address of your Licensing Server into two folders <OptimiDoc installation folder>\OptimiDoc Server\OCR\Licensing and <OptimiDoc installation folder>\OptimiDoc Server\OCR\Bin64\. At the server where you want activate ABBYY and OptimiDoc, restart ABBYY license service with Task Manager.


8. At your client server reinstall license service:
Run the command prompt (CMD.exe) as administrator and switch to the folder Licensing of your OptimiDoc installation, e.g.
CD C:\OptimiDoc\OptimiDoc Server\OCR\Licensing
Use LicensingService.exe executable with parameters \uninstall and \install to reinstall license service
i.e.
LicensingService.exe /uninstall
LicensingService.exe /install

 

9 .Copy OptimiDoc license file from License Server to Client Server into <OptimiDoc installation folder>\OptimiDoc Server\WebApp\App_Data\License\


10. Restart OptimiDoc web application in IIS with iisreset command in the command prompt.

A tip - To check the state of network ports use the following command in the command prompt:

netstat -ab