LabVIEW 2015 continous Network Traffic to Amazon AWS?

[rrawer]

Does anybody know why there is allways netwrok traffic from the LabVIEW development  system to various servers on the Interne (e.g. 104.16.190.245, 199.60.103.29) including multiple Amazon AWS servers?

thanks,

Rainer

[wiebe@CARYA]

How did you come to this conclusion?

Anything in this data traffic?

Anything installed in LabVIEW that could be doing this?

[rrawer]

Hi,

The Windows resource monitor says so (see screenshots attached).

Yes, addons is certainly always a possibility. I installed quite a few but more commonly used ones and all within the VIPM repository – nothing addressing AWS or other cloud tools though. I also tried some time ago –to uninstall all addons -  did not change anything, but UI did not for a clean install of LV on a clean computer.

I originally came past the observation when I tried to find out why opening VIT files was so slow all of a sudden – and also opeing the block diagram of those – I have to click three times, wait about 60 seconds in between and then I can sort of work with the editor – only saving takes about 30 seconds then again… But I work with large Vis with lots of functionality – so it slower and slower a - but also with newer LV version – LV 2012 was much faster when opening and saving (an no, using the optimization when to run a full compile does not change anything in performance) – I originally had the idea that it was running in timeouts on network access but instead the only thing I found ion the network was the AWS communication…

I just had a quick look in the packages using Wireshark.

One http/tcp stream to AWS seems to be JKI (the following is the start and then there seems to be a lots of data transmitted):

“…GET /jki-vi-package-network/packages/jkisoft.ogpd HTTP/1.1
Host: s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com
User-Agent: National Instruments LabVIEW
Accept: */*”

Another one is:

[Full request URI: http://download.ni.com/evaluation/labview/lvtn/vipm/index.vipr]:

GET /evaluation/labview/lvtn/vipm/index.vipr HTTP/1.1

Host: download.ni.com

User-Agent: National Instruments LabVIEW

Accept: */*

[wiebe@CARYA]

So that seems to be related to package manager.

Perhaps the vit has some VIs that are in a package, or are missing or something? I don't know why that would trigger a search for packages.

The connections themselves seem legit, (almost) honest and (mostly) harmless. Why they are triggered in the background, I don't know.

[rrawer]

OK, the only addon that seemed to fit was the JKI Design Palette.

So I unintalled it using VIPM and teh traffic was gone, I reinstalled it and traffic is back again...

However, the traffic is quite frequenct and quite a lot of data seems to be transmitted - can't really see why that should be really necessary (at least not in that extent, expecially when the JKI Design Pallette is not even active)...

[wiebe@CARYA]

Unless someone from JKI ships in, we might not we'll get closer to an answer.