What is it with this VIPM anyway?

[AKA_TG]

I am so frustrated with VIPM I insist on having my say!

I've been up and down, right and left with VIPM over the years and I have never liked it much ..

1) I am not a super power user of LabVIEW

2) My company has >reasonable< networking security protocols in place

Apparently VIPM uses a protocol that is considered insecure because our security firewall will not allow it to connect, period!

I just don't understand why I have to get my own IT people involved in making a proxy just to get at the OPENG toolkit!. 

Why can't OPENG be available through ordinary traffic as a download link on a web page for those of us that have problems with VIPM? 

I could not care less about how they install in the palettes.

But you can't get OPENG toolkit without VIPM. Is there any other way to get the OPENG toolkit ?

This is supposed to be LabVIEW btw.

[smercurio_fc]

VI Package Manager is not created or supported by NI. It's distributed by JKI, so while the JKi folks do step into these forums from time to time, you will have uch better luck posting your comments on the JKI forums.

[AKA_TG]

No worries

I just want to know if OPENG is available for download without using VIPM 

Anyone know anything?

[TCPlomp]

 You can download all the OpenG (*.ogp) packages on Sourceforge for a seperate download.

What I have done on our company is set up a server that runs a NTLM-proxy to allow VIPM to connect to the internet (it's merely the protocol than the target website).

What is interesting, if your IT department disallows you to connect to sourceforge to download items, why does it allows you to acces the internet with a webbrowser?

Ton (OpenG developer)

[Jim_Kring]

Hi There,

I'm sorry that you're having trouble and I hope I can help.

First, I'd like to mention that I'm very biased, since I'm part of the JKI team and am a big part of what VIPM is today 🙂

Second, it's worth noting that OpenG wouldn't really be as great as it is, if not for VIPM, so it's sort of a paradox.

Third, we're constantly working to make VIPM better and improve its integration with LabVIEW.

Finally, in regard to your specific issue with the security firewall, VIPM uses HTTP over port 80.  I'm curious what issues you're having.  I'm happy to answer questions you might have.  Have you already posted to the JKI Discussion Forums?

I can appreciate the need to vent when you're frustrated.  Rest assured the JKI Team is interested to know how we can best help.

Thanks,

-Jim

[F._Schubert]

If you have a plain install of LabVIEW, you can install LabVIEW on a PC thats allowed to access the internet (e.g. a private PC). Then copy the complete LabVIEW folder over the one of your non-networked PC except the license file.

I found this easier than to manually check at which folders OpenG VIs are placed and copy them specifically.

Felix

[MichaelAivaliotis]

I wanted to reply to this old thread in case anyone stumbles across it while searching.

We've released VIPM 2012. This release has an improved fundamental change to the way it connects to the internet which solves connection problems mentioned by the original poster. Please try it out.