KBI 311096 Argent Advanced Technology License Might Be Disabled With Incorrect Proxy Settings
Version
Argent Advanced Technology all versions
Date
Wednesday, 5 Nov 2014
Summary
Argent Advanced Technology Main Engine or Daughter Engine may be disabled due to licensing issue in some proxy environment
Customer sees following lines in service log:
The service is running in disabled mode and does no monitoring
The issue is caused by proxy setting in the machine
Technical Background
Argent Advanced Technology uses Win32 API ‘UrlDownload‘ to communicate with www.argent.com to check license status
Incorrect proxy setting can cause the API to return erroneous result, and Argent Advanced Technology mistakenly treats the license as disabled
Resolution
Customer can correct the issue by uncheck the proxy setting in ‘Internet Option‘ (Control Panel)