Delploying IVI-specific drivers

[markus kossmann]

Whats the requirements for an IVI-specific driver to be listed in the Teststand-4.2.1 deployment tools Drivers and components list ? According to the windows software tool I've installed 6 IVI-specific drivers ( see picture)

 

but only 3 of them are listed in the deployment tool:

[Norbert_B]

Markus,

you can only select drivers and components which are created by NI. Therefore, i assume the following things:

- You downloaded instruments drivers from ni.com. Even if you downloaded it there, the driver itself might not be created by NI.

- Since not all instrument drivers are from NI, they will not appaer as "NI component" in the deployment utility.

- If you would check the entry "NI Software" in the OS, the given three instrument drivers are also listed there, the other (missing) three are not.

I am not aware that you can change anything on this. If you want to distribute one of the other three instrument drivers not listed in the deployment utility, you will have to use "Custom Commands" to 'trigger off' installation of your drivers you supplied with the installer. To achieve this, add the installation package of the driver to the deployment kit and copy it to the target location using the installer settings. You can configure custom commands to launch the installers of the drivers.

hope this helps,

Norbert