Additional NI Software Idea Exchange

With VLM 3.1, a number of default reports are available (License Activity, Client Activity, ...).

Some of the default reports (License Activity, Seat utilization and Seat Utilization (Concurrent)) have a License field that the user need to complete.

The issue I have is that we are using different licenses (Dev Suite, Dev Suite with Data Management, Dev Suite with FPGA, ...) and that I cannot generate a report that includes all licenses together.

My request is to have the possibility to select "All licenses" in the License field.

I am more than willing to validate this feature in an alpha/beta release.

I had to manually enter the properties of 25 frames and their signals (at an average of ~5 signals per frame). That's not fun, especially since many of them were similar.

The process would be a lot faster if I can clone the frames/signals and just edit the fields that differ.

Here at the University I work at we use a large number of license management software (mainly flexlm).  This past semester I installed a new license management service that would be used to serve licenses to multiple labs in multiple buildings across campus.  Unfortunately after installing it and deploying it to a large number of machines I realized that my Labview license manager had stopped working because both processes were trying to use the default port of 27000.  At this point in time my only option was to change the port on the Labview license manager to a new port (in this case 27006).  Unfortunately due to the current nature of Labview I now have to visit 100+ machines in my building and elsewhere and point them to <SERVER_NAME>:27006.  

A peer here had a similar issue with the Autodesk software Autocad, which runs on a similar license manager.  However, Autocad checks a range of ports automatically if their license server isn’t available on the default port.  It would be nice if Labview would do the same.  That is, check port 27000 for a license server, if not found, check 27001…up to 27009 then store the port in the software.  Because of this, we do not have to tell Autocad which port the license server is on and if it changes, nothing needs to be done.

What I am suggesting is that users not be required to point to a given port if the default is not used.  Instead, the Labview client look at 27000 on a given server, if not found, it looks to 27001, this continues up to a maximum of say 27009.   

Another potential fix for such issues would be to have a registry key that can be updated through group policy.  This existed in Windows XP but in Windows 7 this key was removed an instead an .ini files used.

Thank You,

Garret Coffman