List connections from VI Server

[craige]

Hi LabVIEW Developer,

Is there a property under the VI Server "Application" object that will let me see the IP address or Machine name of any other computer connected to my machine via VI Server?

Craig

[mikeporter]

No. What is it that you are trying to accomplish?

Mike...

[craige]

I'm teaching the LabVIEW Connectivity course and a student was wondering if there was a way to see the active connections to his machine through VI server since I think we can all agree that VI Server TCP/IP once enabled leaves our computers pretty open. The best answer I had was to restrict Machine Access through the VI Server Options but I didn't have a good answer to discuss # of connection or even which IPs were connected to the machine. It appears that the short answer is "No" but perhaps through a third party driver we could report network traffic on port 3363. 

Craig

[mikeporter]

You could also use a dynamically assigned nonstandard port. The best solution though is to not depend on LabVIEW for the security. There are a bunch of companies that securing computers is what they do -- I've always held that it is always good to let everybody do what they are good at.

Mike...