NI VLM license request trigger

[Franzin]

We are running a NI VLM 2.0 and network installers made using it work fine.

If for any reason during a station installation there is no communication with the server but the install is finished what would be the best procedure to make the license request from the station to server occur again? We found that if we run the installer again with the communication reestablished it would happen but we would like to do it without a re-install or a manual computer addiction.

[andrepereira]

Hi Franzin,

If I got it right, you are talking about the license validation between the clients and the server. If so, below is a link to a procedure you can do in order to make it happen automatically.

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/CFA9DEA6E394C34E862571180076AD3C?OpenDocument

If you need any other information, or if the answer here does not meet exactly what you are looking for, please give us a better explanation of what the problem really is so we can better help you.

Thanks

Andre Pereira

National Instruments

[Franzin]

Hi Andre,

The license validation between the clients and the server is working fine if the installation is regular. There are some cases that the client can't communicate with server during the installation for any reason. In this case even with communication reestablished (the software is already installed) the client don`t request the license from the server. If we do the reinstall it would work but we just want a shortcut to trigger the license request again with reinstallating everything.

Renato Franzin

[andrepereira]

Hi Renato,

You are right, the client should automatically request the license upon the installation. If this is not happening, you can run the file mslsetup.exe, that you are probably going to find on the network installer's root directory. This will trigger the process of setting up communication and permissions with the VLM server without having to reinstall the software.

Or if you want, you can create disconnected license files and install them manually on the clients.

For more information on those procedures, there are some short videos showing all the steps from the installation of a license file, to the creation of the disconnected licences from your VLM Server. Those videos are on the link below:

http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/ex7ebi

If you need anything else, just let me know

Regards

Andre Pereira

[Franzin]

Hi Andre,

We ran mslsetup.exe and it seems that it´s what we would like to find.

We would perform a full test and we tell you the results latter.

Thanks a lot!

Renato