Additional NI Software Idea Exchange

For security reasons, many customers using Volume License Manager to administer licenses to client machines do not authorize users to download and install anything from the web. Therefore, if a critical patch is released, the client machines are unable to download this unless it is distributed by the administrator. It would be useful for the VLM administrator to be able to configure the Update Service such that all Users can run the Update Service but the service has been configured to point to an internal network share rather than an internet location outside the firewall. This way, the administrator could make critical updates and patches available for the client machines and the clients can be notified and install them.

In Veristand you can add a alarm with one low and one high limit. Often it is helpfully not only have alarm limits but also warning limits. In some automation systems (e.g. Morphe from D2T) we can define three limits.

For example:

Warning: The oil pressure of a engine fall below the warning limit we could log that, show a dialog and stop smoothly the engine.

Alarm: But if we fall below the alarm limit its very important to stop as fast as possible.

Currently licenses use the sort key word within a server's license file to specify the priorotized check out of similar software products ( a preference to check out DIAdem professional over DIAdem Advanced for example when a user has permissions for both).  With concurrent licenses, right clicking on a software product from a client's License Manager application and selecting the Do not Allow License Request from the context menu as shown below will also bring about this functionality.

Without a set preference, sometimes two licenses are checked out, and this is a known issue:

DIAdem is double-checked out from VLA when several versions are licensed

http://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-Applications-Engineers/DIAdem-is-double-checked-out-from-VLA-when-several-versions-are/td-p/2139600

Do Not Allow License Request for Concurrent License

Sort Keyword Within a Server's License File

My suggestion is that we create a way within VLM to modify the server's *.lic file (by changing sort key word's value) to reflect software check out priority.  Currently this change can be made by manually modifying the sort value in the server's *.lic file.  This works since the server's license doesn't need to be resigned after said modification.  However, it would be nice if this change could be made through the VLM user interface and the *.lic file would be modified behind the scenes.

Feel free to comment or Kudo!

Cheers!

Shawn S.

As I understand it now, with VLM, groups were introduced.

I could create a group of Developers that has two members and I could create a group of New Hires with 8 members.  Then I could issue permissions to the ten licenses of LabVIEW that I purchased to each group. 

When I add the LabVIEW licenses to the Developers Group I notice that only 2 of the 10 licenses are used for the members of the Developer group.  Then I add the remaining licenses to the New Hires group.

The problem that I see with groups now is connected to what happens when more people are hired at the company.

If two more people are hired at the company, and all of the new hires are using LabVIEW licenses, then the Developers will see a message that all of the LabVIEW Licenses are checked out.

Could R&D make a way to lock the number of concurrent licenses in a group? For example, if we could lock the 2 concurrent licenses issued to the Developer group, then in the previous scenario when all ten of the new hires attempted to open and use LabVIEW, two of the licenses would be reserved for the Developers and the last two New Hire members to attempt to open LabVIEW would get a message that all licenses had been checked out.

I think this could be a very useful addition to the current functionality of VLM and that it could benefit many companies who utilize it!  Feel free to post, comment, or kudo.  Thanks!

I have a system definition of over a thousand signals. I see that VeriStand 2011 has some search functionality built in. Is there a way to search not just ni the channel names but for the use of particular variables within calculated channels? For example, if I have UserVar1, I'd like to be able to find all occurrences of where UserVar1 is used. It could be an argument in a Calculated Channel, a mapping destination, an alias, etc. Is there a search tool that can accomplish this? Thanks.