Labview DSC 8.5 and Lookout 6.1

[erblock]

Ok...so I'm moving to some new hardware and new OS's along with Labview upgrade and Lk 6.1.

I have not separated these stages yet so I'm hoping NI can help me sort this out.

The scenario:

Run Windows Server 2008 and install LabVIEW 8.5, then LabVIEW DSC 8.5, then Lookout 6.1

Lookout hangs on startup!

Now windows Vista with SP1 is essentially the same as Win2k8 with SP1, so the question(s) is/are....

1.)  Is Lookout 6.1 compatible with Vista SP1?

2.)  Will Lookout 6.1 run properly installed on top of LabVIEW 8.5 w/ DSC?  and/or Can LabVIEW DSC 8.5 and Lookout 6.1 coexist and work properly?  If yes, can they run simultaneously on the same machine?

3.) Does Vista SP1 break Lookout 6.1?  If not, why does it break on W2k8 server?

I understand NI does not support server OS's  (can't really figure that out since Lookout actually runs more stable with a server OS....) but Lookout has always run fine on Windows Server OS's since NT4.

I just want to know whether to bother setting up the same software scenario on Vista w/o SP1, or if you NI wizards know for sure that something else is breaking the scenario...

Thanks,

Ed

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Update...

Uninstalled everything LavVIEW 8.5 related except MAX 4.3 which left just "Lookout 6.1" and 'MAX 4.3' and "NI SPC Toolkit for LabVIEW 8.5" (which, by-the-way, fails to uninstall!!).

Now Lookout appears to run just fine on W2k8 RTM....  good news!

So, I expected that you can't run DSC and Lookout at the same time maybe but does this mean I can't develop LV DSC 8.5 on the same machine as I develop Lookout even if only one is running at the same time???

Ed

Message Edited by erblock on 02-24-2008 03:15 AM

[Ryan.S]

1.  We can't say whether Lookout 6.1 supports Vista sp1 or not. Officially saying lookout 6.1 does support Vista, but sp1 is newly released and we haven't tested yet, so if it runs fine on sp1, it's good, but we can't guarantee. We will test the lastest os and sp for the next release of lookout.

2. Yes. You can install both on the same machine and run both, at least on the supported os.

3.  We haven't tested it yet.

We don't support server os is because we have never tested the server os. But it doesn't mean lookout can't run on server os. Maybe it runs fine, maybe not. So I'm not suprised that Lookout has always run fine on Windows Server OS's since NT4.

For Vista sp1, I'm sorry that you need to try by yourself.

For the SPC toolkit for DSC 8.5, it's a known issue. It has been fixed in DSC 8.5.1.

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Hi Ryan,

So, on Vista then, what is the preferred order of installation to have LabVIEW 8.5, LabVIEW DSC 8.5 and Lookout 6.1 all running on the same machine with the latest proven configurations?  Should I install only MAX 4.3 from the DSC disk, then Lookout 6.1, then LabVIEW and LabVIEW DSC?

Thanks,

Ed

[Ryan.S]

Install lookout 6.1, then labview, dsc. you don't need to install MAX individually.

But I think the order doesn't matter. For MAX, Citadel or Logos, the latest one will overwrite the old one.