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Automate LabVIEW activation

I am trying to fully automate a LabVIEW for Education 2012 SP1 installation in our school environment with a site-license. I have the silent installation steps working, but I am falling short on the automatic activation.

 

By running the following command, I only see Full Development System being activated. (LabView for Education, LabVIEW for LEGO(R) MINDSTORMS(R), and Professional Development System remain unactivated):

"C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\Shared\License Manager\Bin\nilmUtil.exe" -s -family "LabVIEW_ADE_120001" -serialnumber "MXXXXXXXX" -firstname "POLYTECH" -lastname "School District" -organizationname "POLYTECH School District"

 

If I manually select one of the other components in NI License Manager, right-click and select Activate, the component would then activate with the same serial number as is being passed in the command-line for nilmUtil.exe.

 

One thing that I noticed when manually activating those components in NI License Manager is that the Activation Wizard would ask for my email and password. Using the account that the serial number is registered with works. So my question is, how can I pass NI.com login information to the nilmUtil.exe command-line so I can automate the activation of the other components in LabVIEW for Education 2012 SP1?

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Hello,

 

The process for creating silent installers with different options for VLM- or non-VLM- based installers is described in these KBs:

 

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/878FC4C374013ADF8625733D00688F67?OpenDocument

 

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/AA2371E815A418DD86257169005F2D99?OpenDocument

 

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/D9DE5FB35F19F8A28625735C007C4AA1?OpenDocument

 

Hopefully one of these works for you!

 

Thank you,

Karen M.

Karen M
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
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