Procedure
The steps provided require that you briefly stop the license manager. During this time, connections to the license manager may be lost.
- Click Start > Programs > ArcGIS > License Manager > License Server Administrator.
- Select Start/Stop License Server in the table of contents and click Stop.
- Open Windows Explorer and navigate to your license manager installation location (C:Program FilesArcGISLicense10.0in by default), in which you will see a service.txt file.
- The file should look similar to this:
SERVER this_host ANY VENDOR ARCGIS FEATURE ACT ARCGIS 1 permanent 1 7ED49106D630

At the end of line one, you can choose to specify a port number immediately after ANY.
On the VENDOR line, add PORT=####, where #### is a specific port number designated by you, to lock the vendor daemon to that specific port, for example, 1234. After making he changes, your service.txt file should look something like this:SERVER this_host ANY 27000 VENDOR ARCGIS PORT=1234 FEATURE ACT ARCGIS 1 permanent 1 7ED49106D630
- Save the .txt file.
- From the License Server Administrator, click Start.
- The vendor daemon is now static, locked to the port specified.
- These ports can now be saved as exceptions in the firewall to allow communication between the license server and the client.