National Instruments License Manager Help

April 2008 Edition, Part Number 371136D-01

Use the National Instruments License Manager to activate and manage
your licenses or configure NI products on your system to obtain licenses
from network license servers.
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License Management Overview
License management is the process of controlling access to products
based on an explicit license agreement. Certain National Instruments
software products require an activated license in order to execute.
You must acquire and activate a license before you can use a product in
full-featured, nonexpiring mode. The activation process involves using
the NI Activation Wizard to send the following information to National
Instruments:
The product you are activating
The version of the product you are activating
The serial number of the product you are activating
Your name
Your organization
A computer ID that uniquely identifies your computer
National Instruments uses this information to generate an activation
code, which you then use to activate the product on your system.
National Instruments does not use this information for any other purpose.
Refer to the Software Licensing Information Privacy topic for information
on the National Instruments privacy policy regarding your personal
information.
The NI Activation Wizard offers a variety of options you can use to obtain
an activation code from National Instruments, including automatically
through an Internet connection or using a Web browser, email client,
telephone or fax machine. Activation is available 24 hours a day.
Note Refer to National Instruments activation Web site,
ni.com/activate, for the latest information regarding activation and
license management.
For information on more NI License Manager tasks, refer to What Do You
Want to Do?
The NI License Manager Environment
The left pane of NI License Manager displays all licenses accessible by
your computer, organized hierarchically in a tree control (NI License
Manager tree). The right pane contains context-sensitive information
based on the item you have selected in the NI License Manager tree. The
following table provides a description of each type of item that could
appear in the tree.
Icon Label Description Right Pane
Contents
Local Licenses Displays all locally installed Help links
licenses.
networkServer Displays all licenses on a Displays the
network license server. server name and
status.
parentProduct(icon Specifies the parent Displays Web
may vary) product. help provided
from ni.com, if
enabled.
product An activated or otherwise Specific
fully featured, nonexpiring information about
license. the license
including:
product
name
associated
software
product
version
license
expiration
date*
license
status*
agreement
ID**
agreement
company**
agreement
expiration**
*Not available on
network licenses
**Available on
network licenses
only
product A nonexpiring evaluation Same as above
license.
product An activated or otherwise Same as above
fully featured, expiring
license.
product An expiring evaluation Same as above
license.
product A fully featured license that Same as above
has expired.
product An evaluation license that Same as above
has expired.
product An unlicensed product or a Same as above
product being served from a
network license server.
product A product that you prevent Same as above
from requesting permissions
from the parent license
server.
product An unusable license, Same as above
possibly due to a corrupted
license file, or a license file
that requires reactivation.
Modules Contains add-on modules None
for a parent product.
Toolkits Contains add-on toolkits for None
a parent product.
message An informational message. Extended
description of the
message
The Options menu contains the following options:
Option Description
Activate Starts the NI Activation Wizard to activate a product.
Display Displays your system's computer ID and computer name.
Computer
Information
Install Installs a new license file on your system.
License File
Refresh Refreshes the contents of NI License Manager.
Preferences Sets Web help, start-up, and network license server
preferences. You can set the following options:
Use Check this box and then enter the names of your
Network network license servers to use this option. NI
License License Manager first checks a network server
Servers location for a license before checking your local
license server. You can enter either a server
name, the server's network name, or the server's
IP address. For more information, refer to Using
a Network License Server.
Show Shows or hides supplemental information
Web provided from ni.com.
Help
Note Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher is
required to view Web help.
Start Starts the local license server on system startup.
Local Most products do not require the local license
License server. The controls for this feature appear only if
Server you install LabVIEW Remote Panel Connections
on 8.5 or earlier. For more information, refer to
System Using the Local License Server.
Start
Note This preference requires you to be
logged in as an Administrator, and is not
available on Microsoft Windows Vista.
Exit Exits NI License Manager.
The Toolbar contains the following items:
Icon Button Description
Activate Starts the NI Activation Wizard to activate a product.
Display Displays your system's computer ID and computer
Computer name.
Information
Start/Stop Starts or stops the local license server. Most products
Local do not require the local license server. The controls for
License this feature appear only if you install LabVIEW Remote
Server Panel Connections 8.5 or earlier. For more
information, refer to Using the Local License Server.
Glossary
A C E F L N P S
A
activated Allows a product to be used on one particular computer. You
license cannot use this license file on another computer.
activation The process of activating a product for use on your computer.
activation A 20-character value that is generated by National
code Instruments and used during the activation process.
C
computer A 16-character value that uniquely identifies your computer.
ID It is used by National Instruments in the activation code
generation process.
computer- A license for a single computer that allows multiple users
based and a single home installation.
license
concurrent A license type where licenses are assigned dynamically on a
license first-come, first-served basis. Concurrent licenses can be
managed or unmanaged. Managed concurrent licenses
require users or computers to have permissions assigned in
NI VLM. An unlimited number of users or computers can
have permissions for managed concurrent licenses.
Unmanaged concurrent licenses do not require users or
computers to have permissions assigned in NI VLM. Their
use is unrestricted.
E
evaluation Allows a product to be used with certain limitations, such as
license reduced functionality or limited execution time.
F
family A keyword used in command-line activation to represent a
collection of related products (for example, LabVIEW Base,
LabVIEW Full, LabVIEW Professional). Refer to Automating
Activation for more information.
L
license The legal right to use a particular product under the terms of a
license agreement.
license A file that contains a license for one or more products. Typically,
file there is at least one license file for each product on your
system.
N
named-user A license for a single person, limited to three
license installations per license, where each license is used
only on one computer at a time. This license also allows
a home license.
NI Activation Guides you through the activation process. To launch
Wizard the NI Activation Wizard, click the Activate button in
the NI License Manager toolbar, select the
Options»Activate menu item, or double-click on the
product you want to activate.
NI License A utility program used to manage various tasks
Manager associated with license management and activation.
NI Volume A utility program used to administer licenses available
License through a National Instruments Volume License
Manager (NI Agreement.
VLM)
numeric A 25-character, numeric encoding of a computer ID for
computer ID activating a product over the telephone.
numeric A 10-character, numeric encoding of a product and
product/version version for activating a product over the telephone.
numeric serial A 15-character, numeric encoding of a serial number for
number activating a product over the telephone.
P
package A keyword used in command-line activation that represents a
specific product. Refer to Automating Activation for more
information.
product A software component that requires a license to use. A product
can be a single product, one or more features of a single
product, or a bundle of several products.
S
serial An alphanumeric value located on the Certificate of Ownership
number or license card included with purchased products. The serial
number is used by NI in the activation code generation process.
Activating a Product
You must activate your product before using it in accordance with its
license agreement. To activate a product, you must first purchase a
license. For information on purchasing licenses, contact your local
National Instruments sales representative or visit ni.com/niglobal.
Once you have purchased a license, you can activate your product using
the NI Activation Wizard. The NI Activation Wizard prompts you for your
name, your organization, and the serial numbers of the products you are
activating. You can find the serial number on the Certificate of Ownership
or license card included with each product. If your software kit does not
include a Certificate of Ownership, you can find your serial number on the
product packing slip or on the shipping label.
If you have installed a previous version using your serial number, you can
find the serial number by selecting the Help»About menu item within the
application or by selecting your product within NI License Manager. You
can also contact your local National Instruments branch.
To activate your products, click the Activate button on the toolbar or
double-click your product in the NI License Manager tree and follow the
NI Activation Wizard prompts. You can also right-click the product in the
NI License Manager tree and select Activate.
Upon successful activation, you can use the product immediately.
Note If you were using a product before you began the activation
process, you may need to restart it for the change to take effect.
Note If your NI software is licensed through a volume license
agreement, you do not need to activate your product. Instead, you
need to point NI License Manager to a network server. For more
information, refer to Using a Network License Server.
Moving an Activated Product to Another
Computer
To transfer your software to another computer, install and activate it on
the second computer. You will not be prohibited from transferring your
software from one computer to another. If you exceed the number of
computers allowed in the NI Software License Agreement, you must
uninstall the extra installations.
Note If your organization uses NI Volume License Manager to
manage NI software under a volume license agreement (VLA),
notify your VLA administrator before transferring your software to
another computer.
Deactivating a Product
To deactivate a product and return the product to the state it was in
before you activated it, right-click the product in the NI License Manager
tree and select Deactivate. If the product was in evaluation mode before
you activated it, the properties of the evaluation mode may not be
restored.
Reactivating a Deactivated Product
You can reactivate a deactivated product using the NI Activation Wizard.
If you saved the activation code from a previous activation for this
computer, select Apply one or more 20-character activation codes
previously acquired for this computer and follow the prompts.
Otherwise, select one of the other two options and follow the NI
Activation Wizard prompts.
Using a Network License Server
You can check out licenses from a network server if your company has a
Volume License Agreement with National Instruments.
Using a Network License Server
Complete the following steps to use a network server:
1. Select the Options»Preferences menu item.
2. Click the Use Network License Servers checkbox.
3. Enter the names of the network servers, separated by commas,
on which your NI products should check for licenses. You can
enter either a server name, the server's network name, or the
server's IP address. You can also configure your products to look
at a specific port on a network server. Enter the network server
name followed by colon and the port number: server[:port]. For
example:

server
server:27000
server.domain.com:28432
127.0.0.2

are all legal server names. When no port is specified, 27000 is

implied. Ports range from 0-64000, inclusive.

If you enter server1, server2:28001, server3 and then launch a

product that requires a license, your product first checks port
27000 of server1 for a valid license, then moves to port 28001 of
server2, port 27000 of server3, and finally your local system. If
your product does not find a license on any of the network servers
or your local system, your product does not start.

Notes
If you are running NI Volume License Manager on
the same computer as NI License Manager, you
must set your network license server to localhost or
127.0.0.1 to check out a license from the licenses
being served by your local NI VLM.
Contact your volume license agreement software
administrator to obtain the server information.
4. Click OK.
You can now check out and use products from the network license
server.
Notes
A License Server item is denoted by if it is active and by
if it is inactive. The right pane displays the server name,
server status, administrator information, and volume license
agreement information, if available.
If you need to check out licenses from a "triple redundant"
network server, list all three server names, separated by
commas, in this box to properly configure your client.
For more information about the NI Volume License Program, refer to
ni.com/vlp.
Switching between Concurrent Licenses
NI License Manager looks for all licenses available on the network
license server. If your NI volume license agreement includes concurrent
licenses for multiple types of the same product, you can switch between
concurrent licenses to use a specific product type.
For example, if you have concurrent licenses for LabVIEW Professional
and LabVIEW Full and you need only LabVIEW Full, you can disable
license checkout for LabVIEW Professional to save the license for a
colleague who needs its features.
To prevent using a specific network license, right-click on the product
listed under a network license server and select Do Not Allow License
Request. The Server License Request status reflected in the right-hand
view changes to Not Allowed.
Notes:
Concurrent license switching works on products shipped in
August 2008 or later, such as LabVIEW 8.6, that use
concurrent licenses.
This feature is available only for concurrent licenses hosted
by a network license server. If you are using managed
concurrent licenses, you must have permission assigned on
the network license server. Contact your volume license
agreement software administrator for assistance assigning
permissions.

To resume using the product, right-click on the product listed under a

network license server and select Allow License Request. The Server
License Request status reflected in the right-hand view changes to
Allowed.
Installing a License File
You may need to install onto your system a new license file that you
receive from National Instruments or a disconnected or home license file
that you received from a network license server administrator. Select one
of the following methods to install your license:
Select Options»Install License File from the menu and choose
one or more license files to install.
Select one or more license files in Windows Explorer and drag
them onto the NI License Manager tree.
NI License Manager updates to reflect the addition of the new license
files. Remember, you still might need to activate new licenses. For more
information, refer to Activating a Product.
Note Disconnected and home license files generated by NI
Volume License Manager do not need to be activated.
Note To permanently remove disconnected and home license files
from your computer, right-click a licensed product in the NI License
Manager tree and select Uninstall.
Activating a Product for Home Use
To activate your product for home use, as allowed in your license
agreement, install and activate the product on your home computer using
the same serial number.
Note If your organization uses NI Volume License Manager, notify
your administrator to request a license file for home use. After you
install the product and the license file on your home computer, you
do not have to activate. Refer to Installing a License File for more
information.
Recovering a Deleted or Damaged License File
If you accidentally delete or damage a license file, you can restore it.
How you restore your license file depends on what kind of license file you
need, as follows:
To restore a license file installed with an application, perform the
following steps:
1. Browse to ni.com/downloads, select Drivers and Updates,
and browse, by product, to the appropriate license file.
2. Download the desired evaluation license file.
3. Launch NI License Manager and install the license file that
you downloaded. Refer to Installing a License File for more
information about installing a license file.
Note If you have a damaged license file, NI License
Manager asks whether you want to overwrite the
existing file when you install a new license file. Click
Yes.
4. Activate the newly installed license. Refer to Activating a
Product above for more information.
To restore a license file given to you by a National Instruments
Volume License Program administrator (either a disconnected or a
home license file), contact your administrator for another copy.
Using the Local License Server
Note Most products do not require the Local License Server. The
controls for this feature remain hidden unless you have installed
LabVIEW Remote Panel Connections 8.5 or earlier.
Use the Local License Server to manage licenses for LabVIEW Remote
panel Connections 8.5 or earlier and display the current status of the
License Server. The License Server consists of two daemon processes
(lmgrd and nilm) that run as services.
To start or stop an inactive server, click the Start/Stop Local License
Server button on the NI License Manager toolbar. This feature requires
you to be logged in as an Administrator, and is not available on Microsoft
Windows Vista.
Note If you use LabVIEW 8.5 or earlier, you cannot manage the
Local License Server if you have NI Volume License Manager (NI
VLM) installed on the same computer as NI License Manager.
Consequently, LabVIEW Remote Panel Connections cannot be
used if NI VLM is installed. If you encounter this situation, contact
National Instruments for a resolution.
Automating Activation
If you are a license administrator or if you are responsible for transferring
NI products to end users, you can automate product activation and add
network license servers by running NI License Manager from a command
line or from a batch file.
What do you want to do?
Launch NI Activation Wizard. This command is equivalent to
clicking the Activate button in NI License Manager.

Syntax: nilmUtil.exe -all

Launch NI Activation Wizard with a preselected package or
family. This command is equivalent to right-clicking on a product or
family in NI License Manager and selecting Activate to activate a
product.

Package
Syntax: nilmUtil.exe -activate "packagename version"
Example: nilmUtil.exe -activate "LabVIEW_PDSM_PKG 8.0500"

Family
Syntax: nilmUtil.exe -family "family"
Example: nilmUtil.exe -family "LabVIEW_ADE_080600"

NI Activation Wizard launches and steps you through the process

of activating your product.
Activate a product silently. You can activate a product without
launching the NI Activation Wizard using command-line flags. The
-s flag triggers a silent activation. You can use the -s flag only with
the -family or -activate flags.

Note This option requires an Internet connection that allows

access to ni.com over an encrypted web connection (https).
Syntax: nilmUtil.exe -s -activate "packagename" -serialnumber
"serialnumber" [-firstname "firstname"] [-lastname "lastname"] [-
organizationname "organizationname"]

Example: nilmUtil.exe -s -activate "LabVIEW_PDSM_PKG 8.0500" -

serialnumber "A111A1A11" -firstname "Jane" -lastname "Doe" -
organizationname "Company Name"

NI License Manager silently activates your product.

Note If you enter incorrect or incomplete information such
as a invalid serial number, activation may fail. In order not to
interfere with your remaining automation scripts, no error
message will appear. You must activate manually before you
can use your software.
Silently point a computer to a network license server to check
out licenses. This command is equivalent to using the
Options»Preferences menu item to add a license server.

Syntax: nilmUtil.exe -addservers servername[:portnumber]

[,servername[:portnumber],...]

Examples:
nilmUtil.exe -addservers server1
nilmUtil.exe -addservers server1:28000
nilmUtil.exe -addservers server1:28000,server2

You can now use NI License Manager to check out licenses from
the newly added network license server.
Command-line Flags
NI License Manager command-line flags are listed in the following table.
Note Flag order does not matter.
Flag Description
-s Activates a family or feature in silent mode (-activate
or -family). If you use silent mode, you must supply
the serial number. First name, last name, and
organization name are optional if they can be
loaded from the computer preferences.
-activate Activates a specific version of a single package
using the Internet. You must provide the package
name or feature and the version.

You can find the package name in your license file,

which is located in the \Program Files\National
Instruments\Shared\License Manager\Licenses
directory. Open the license file in a text editor and
look for the PACKAGE line. Copy the text that
includes _PKG and the version number that follows
nilm on the PACKAGE line.
-family Activates a single family using the Internet. You
must provide the family name or feature and the
version.

You can find the family name in your license file,

which is located in the \Program Files\National
Instruments\Shared\License Manager\Licenses
directory. Open the license file in a text editor and
look for the FAMILY= line. Copy the text after the
equals sign that includes the family name and
version.
-all Launches NI Activation Wizard for any installed
products. This command cannot be used silently.
-all product Launches NI Activation Wizard for a preselected
product. This command cannot be used silently.
-serialnumber The serial number of the product. You must provide
the serial number of the feature or family to activate
when using -s flag.
-firstname The user's first name. This flag is optional if the first
name can be loaded from the computer
preferences.
-lastname The user's last name. This flag is optional if the last
name can be loaded from the computer
preferences.
-organizationname The user's organization or company. This flag is
optional if the organization name can be loaded
from the computer preferences.
-addservers Adds a server to a list of existing servers. The port
number is optional. servername is required. Port
27000 is the default if no port is specified.
Note If you have numerous licenses to activate, consider using NI
Volume License Manager with a Volume License Agreement. For
more information, visit ni.com/vlp.
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