ni volume license manager shared settings

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We run a Volume License Manager on a server.  All of us, licensed users, can logon to the server to do stuff, and also to interact to the LVM.

I installed the LVM and configured it the way we want to run it.  Any time some other user launches the the LVM for the first time s/he has to go through the configuration steps again.

Shouldn't those settings be shared?  Seems that someone accidentaly may change the way the LVM was initially setup.  Or did I miss a step when configure it for the first time to make those settings shared?

[JÞB]

Your users should not need to launch the volume license manager.  All the users should need to do is connect to the license server using the NI License Manager menu Options>>Preferences.

It sounds like it is time to get your local NI Rep out for a visit to guide you in best practice for setting up a VLA.

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@JÞB wrote:

Your users should not need to launch the volume license manager.  All the users should need to do is connect to the license server using the NI License Manager menu Options>>Preferences.

It sounds like it is time to get your local NI Rep out for a visit to guide you in best practice for setting up a VLA.

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The VLM gets confused when we switch IPs (see my other thread on this) and thus the users do need to hop on the server and stop and restart the License Manager.

There's 7 of us with 8 named user licenses.  The "spare" license is assigned to different people at different times, and thus any of us do need to go there and reassign it.

[JÞB]

In that case definately get your local NI guy in the loop!  It amazing what kinds of useful information they have about making it easier to work with NI products.

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@JÞB wrote:

In that case definately get your local NI guy in the loop!  It amazing what kinds of useful information they have about making it easier to work with NI products.

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Well, that's besides the point.  What you're implying is that the VLM is to be setup by one user and one user only,  so it's a 24/7 job, or to be done by a shared login (a problem with my company policies).

When I go on vacation and someone else has to do VLM maintenance, they'll have to go through the settings again if they've never done it before.

If those settings were shared the VLM would just know that it had been setup again.

[JÞB]

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@instrumento wrote:

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@JÞB wrote:

In that case definately get your local NI guy in the loop!  It amazing what kinds of useful information they have about making it easier to work with NI products.

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Well, that's besides the point.  What you're implying is that the VLM is to be setup by one user and one user only,  so it's a 24/7 job, or to be done by a shared login (a problem with my company policies).

When I go on vacation and someone else has to do VLM maintenance, they'll have to go through the settings again if they've never done it before.

If those settings were shared the VLM would just know that it had been setup again.

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No, that was not what I was suggesting.  I was suggesting speaking to your NI Rep with a face to face discussion of how best to set up your VLM for your particular company after engaging in a discussion more detailed than a forum post.

[User002]

Could you clarify your VLM setup?  It almost sounds like you have 7 people running/maintaining the VLM server:

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@instrumento wrote:

"We run a Volume License Manager on a server.  All of us, licensed users, can logon to the server to do stuff, and also to interact to the LVM. Any time some other user launches the the [VLM] for the first time s/he has to go through the configuration steps again...Seems that someone accidentaly may change the way the [VLM] was initially setup..."

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When client computers request licenses from the server, they cannot change the VLM settings, only the administrator on the server computer can do that. What settings are you worried that clients will mess with?