How to set up ETS

[waldemar.hersacher]

I agree with you it is not very transparent.

Your license agreement for LabVIEW (April 2003 is the newest I found) enumerates in 12.B a lot of SOFTWARE for which you must have a 'written distribution authorization from NI and (if required by NI) pay to NI a per copy distribution/development fee for each Authorized Application distributed'.

The really problem is to find out for which SOFTWARE you have to pay a fee, aka deployment license or short deployment. The way over the hardware branch of the online catalog is more reliable and consistent with the printed catalog than the software branch. Even then they do not use the same text for the same part.

[A.S.]

Hello,
LabVIEW RT (and LabVIEW PDA) is actually sold in two parts. One is the LabVIEW Real-Time Module which is the development environment. This, as the name indicates, lets you create LV RT applications for as many targets as you wish. The second part is the actual deployment license. This basically allows you to download that application to certain real-time targets. The reason LV RT is divided into these two parts is because the licensing is done on a per machine basis.
This allows a developer to have a single development license and multiple deployment licenses. So based on number of targets the application will be running on, the developer can purchase that many licenses. This structure is quite common among development environments.
However, because this may not be obvious to all, we ALWAYS recommend that you contact our sales force when you are purchasing our products and you are not very familiar with them. It is their duty to make sure you have the right products ordered for your application and will explain the nuances to you. If you look at the LabVIEW RT product page, you will notice that there is a link on the left for Development Environment and another link for Deployment Licenses. This is where you can explicitly look at all the ADEs and deployment licenses required.
When you purchase LabVIEW RT, you generally should also pick the platform you will be deploying to. This allows you to pick several different platforms, instead of paying for platforms you wouldn't be using. So if you purchased the ETS for Desktop deployment license, you will have received the proper floppy disks needed to boot a desktop into RTOS.

I hope this clarifies these concerns a bit more. We apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused.

A Saha
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

[bjorn1985]

To complicate this further,

I have installed Labview Realtime on a Dell Optiplex GX620 with onboard network. Now, RT states there are no valid Ethernet adapters. Also, it sometimes halts due to a general error.

I used the PXI Format Disk to install RT. We have a Labview Professional package. However, there were no floppy disks supplied with the package. We do have Labview Real-Time Module for RTX which, according to this document: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/BEC9D1C9A0CDA46186256EC10051B86F?OpenDocument comes with a license. So I'm puzzled.

[Sima]

I'd make sure a compatible NIC chipset is installed to eliminate that problem. Check out
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/cb3434da94466dd286256e9e006bb775

Not sure if the 8.0.1 update has expanded that list.

Message Edited by Sima on 03-22-2006 06:41 AM

[jcolton]

Hi.  I'm trying to set up a desktop PC as an ETS target, but am having the same difficulties that people seem to be mentioning here.  First, I reformatted the drive to the FAT32 file system (from NTFS).  I created a "Desktop PC Format Hard Drive" disk using MAX.  I booted the machine from this floppy, got the warnings about clearing the drive, then it appeared that files were being copied from the diskette to the hard drive as expected.  I got a sucessful message, but when I rebooted, this is what I saw:

Searching hard drive for boot program...not found.
Using safe mode program.
Unable to configure the primary network device.
Will reboot in 10 sec.

It does this several times, then finall says:

Error bringing up basic services.  Cannot start system.
System halted.

So then I created a regular "boot" disk in MAX & tried booting the computer from this...same thing.

What is wrong???

[Prashanth]

Hi There,

Have you taken a look at these pages to see if your desktop computer conforms to the requirements to make it a RT target?

Using a Desktop Computer as a LabVIEW Real-Time for ETS Target
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/2b20d544723c8f2d86256e8c0071c201

Requirements for a Desktop PC as a LabVIEW Real-Time Target
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/cb3434da94466dd286256e9e006bb775

Regards,
Prashanth

[jcolton]

My processor is a Pentium 4, which is supported, & my hard drive is IDE (reformatted to FAT32).  I am checking on the ethernet chipset, but I haven't even started using the network connection, so this should not be causing a problem yet. 

[jcolton]

Yes, the problem was my NIC card--aparently the RTOS won't boot without the correct one installed.

[Nicolas PRIVAT]

Hello, I've got the same problem with the installation of Labview Real Time on a desktop PC.

I've checked, it is not caused by the configuration of my PC.

Jcolton, can you explain what must be installed to allow the boot ?

[jcolton]

Hi Nicolas,

You mentioned that the problem is not caused by the configuration of your PC.  By that, do you mean that you've checked the hardware you're using & it's all supported?  I can say that the 2 problems I had were that my hard drive was not formatted in FAT32 & that I was using an unsupported network card (the link that Prashanth provided gives a list of supported cards).  Once I corrected those problems, installation went very smoothly.   Are both PCs connected to the same network?

Jessie