I cannot find shared variable monitor in labview 8.6

[mariocinves]

Hello I have a problem I use to work with dsc module, and in labview 8.5 i did not have any trouble but I just bought Labview 8.6 and dscmodule 8.6 and when I go to the Tools menu and I choose dsc module menu the shared variable monitor does not appear. Furthermore the server is not deployed. When I run a vi built with shared variables this works but when I stop the vi the shared variables stop changing until I run the VI again so it is no really working as a periodic-io server. I dont know what to do maybe somebody has the same problem or is my module which is failed. Can you help me?

[Hillman]

Hi mariocinves,

Thanks for the post and I hope your well - welcome to the NI Forums!

Good question. In LabVIEW 8.6 the NI Shared Variable Manager was replaced with the NI Distributed System Manage. The DSC Module extends the System Manager with additional functionality for monitoring, configuring, and acknowledging alarms, and monitoring and acknowledging events. In LabVIEW, select Tools»Distributed System Manager to launch the System Manager.

For a System Manager Overview please follow this link to the LabVIEW 8.6 help file. It explains how to create variables, I/O Servers etc.

http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/372572A-01/sysman/sysman_overview/

Regarding your issue with the variables not updating, do you have other code writing to the variable? If you could please re-word your issue then I'll be happy to help.

Hope this helps,