Connecting with the Dynamic License Server The dynamic license server for Vector NTI will function with either version 10.x or version 11. This license is restricted to faculty/staff/students of UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, and East Carolina University. You must request a license through the Center for Bioinformatics by contacting Tom Randall (tarandal@email.unc.edu). You must use your University email address, we will not give the necessary information for obtaining a license to any gmail, hotmail, or any other non-academic email addresses. Once you have obtained the dynamic license URL you need to type or paste this into the Vector NTI License Manager. If you are familiar with the older dynamic license we had, this will be the same process but a new URL. Go to Start > All Programs > Invitrogen > Vector NTI Advance 10 (or 11) > License Manager. You need to maintain an internet connection for the dynamic license to function. Go the License Manager tab entitled “Applications”
For a new application of the dynamic license, all the above boxes should say “Demo mode”, change them via the drop down menu to the above settings. Click on the “Dynamic” button and the next page will show up.
Type or paste the URL you received from us into the box entitled “URL of DLS”. Test the Connection, you should get a message saying the connection is “OK”. Select Apply to close this window then close the next window. The next time you open up either Vector NTI or the Explorer Database, you should see a blinking green check mark in the lower right hand corner. This signifies that you are connected to our license server. The dynamic license differs from the static license in that you must maintain an internet connection to have access to Vector NTI. If you do not have internet access the software will go back into Demo mode (you will see a red X in the lower right hand corner) until a connection is re-established. This will not affect your data in the database, being in Demo mode will simply deny access to your molecules. If you are having problems connecting to this license, make sure your local Firewall on your computer is not too restrictive. Go to Control Panel > Windows Firewall and you will see the following page. Make sure the box “Don’t Allow Exceptions” is un-checked.
Connecting to the Vector NTI License Server "off-campus". The connection to our new License Server has been updated to require a campus IP address, therefore if you try to connect at home you will find yourself in Demo mode. The way around this is to install the VPN Client on your machine with Vector NTI installed. If you connect to the internet with the VPN Client when you are not on campus you will have access to the License Server. The current setup of the VPN Client at North Carolina State does not allow a connection to our license server so NCSU users are not currently able to use the Vector NTI dynamic license off-campus. If this changes we will let users know. The VPN Client is available for all three campuses (UNC-CH, NCSU and ECU) at the following websites: UNC Chapel Hill East Carolina University Please see local installation guidelines for VPN Client installation, we do not help with this. Problems connecting to the Dynamic License Server As our License server has been restricted to users at the UNC-CH, NCSU and ECU campuses, this has occasionally caused a problem if users have a local network domain registration problem. Our server is set up to recognize only registered network domains that have been appropriately set up by local IT. If you have set up the License Manager with the correct URL (http://bioinformatics.unc.edu/software/nti/dynamicLicenseServer.htm ) and still cannot connect, this may be the cause of the problem. To determine if this is the issue, you need to check if your IP Address is being recognized by our license server. Alternatively, we can do this for you if you email your IP address to Tom Randall at tarandal@email.unc.edu. Instructions for determining your IP Address on either a PC or a Mac. Go to http://www.whatismyip.com/ while on the computer with the problematic dynamic license connection. This will automatically display your IP Address. Go to the link "Host Name Lookup" and click the Host Lookup button in the middle of the page (see Figures below). If a specific location, such as "p152019115097.med.unc.edu" appears below the IP Address, then your network connection is not the problem. If you see "unknown" then your IP address is not properly registered with your DNS server. You may need to get assistance from your local IT administrator to get this registration done.
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