required NI services

[Secret_Agent_Gary_Seven]

Hi Deborah Y.-

Could we please get a link to that KB article in this thread?

Thanks!

[fromm8]

The closest KB we have is still What Windows Services Are Installed With LabVIEW?

[instrumento]

Wonder what's going on with this document, maybe no one at NI really knows what those things do anymore.

Since I created this post we now have a couple of web services, application and system, that I probably don't need either.

And lately, after installation or updating, I get one (on 32 bit machines) or two (on 64 bt machines) nieserver.exe programs placed on the startup folder that I don't think buy me anything.

[Jeff-P]

Hi all,

We have a white paper covering this topic here - List of Windows Services Installed By National Instruments Software

It covers what each service does and what happens when you disable it. Hopefully that is the document you were looking for. If you have further questions, please post them.

Regarding your specific comment - nieserver.exe is the NI Error Reporting (NIER) process (detailed info in this KB). It is a second process that runs beside LabVIEW in case LabVIEW crashes. It was introduced in LabVIEW 2011 to give LabVIEW users a way to submit crash reports to LabVIEW R&D. Since then we have used it very successfully to increase the stability of LabVIEW. We encourage all users to submit any crash reports that they see in NIER, the more data we have, the more effectively we can allocate resources to further improve stability.

Regards,

Jeff Peacock 

Product Support Engineer | LabVIEW R&D | National Instruments 

[instrumento]

I'll take a look at that document, thanks.  Looks like it is quite recent, from June 2013, wondering why Deborah didn't post its existence to this thread, if she is still around.

What I don't like about the niserver.exe is that it puts stuff in the startup folder without asking the user or give an option to not start those things, which goes along with starting all those services I may not need or want running.

Also, in production machines with no access to the internet, the error server report can't be sent to NI directly, and operators just click away through the dialogs and rerun the code anyway, specially the night or weekend shifts, so in all of those, and I have quite a few, I'd rather not run them.  With an option on install/update I wouldn't forget to delete the recreated entries and have to go into services and stop the thing (and all the other NI services I usually stop.)

[Jeff-P]

I appreciate the feedback. I am forwarding it along to our team that works on NIER.

Regards,

Jeff Peacock 

Product Support Engineer | LabVIEW R&D | National Instruments 

[aab-ufl]

Instead of disabling these Services, is it safe to set them to Manual startup type? Is it a valid assumption that if I set these services to Manual, NI will automatically start them when needed?