Advanced Licensing with NILM

[David_L]

 For most products licensed with NILM, licenses will be set up to use the standard licensing options:

• 7 day evaluation without login
• 45 day evaluation with login
• Single Package/Single Component
• No families

For these products, please see the Licensing Third-Party Products with the NILM Third Party SDK

If additional or different licensing capabilities are needed, please discuss this with the LabVIEW Tools Network team before requesting a license.  In order to handle some of the advanced capabilities, you'll need to create Family and Mapping XML files.

Creating the Family XML File

Complete the following steps to create a Product Info XML file for a specific version of a family.

1. Fill in the fields in the Family XML tab of the XML File Generator. Most of the fields in the Family XML tab are self-explanatory. The following list describes fields that might require additional explanation.
   • Family Name – Name that is appended to the beginning of the XML filename. The format for this field must be FamilyName_Descriptor_Version, where version is in the format nnnnnn.
   • Family Version – The version of the family. The format for this field must be nn.nn.nn.
2. Click Save Family XML File and save the Product XML file in the C:\ProgramData\National Instruments\License Manager\ProductInfo

Mapping Licenses to Products

Use the Mapping XMLs tab to map license files to products or families.

To map a license file to a product, complete the following steps:

1. Fill in the fields in the License Mapping XML section of the Mapping XMLs tab of the XML File Generator. Most of the fields are self-explanatory. The following list describes fields that might require additional explanation.
   • Package Name – Corresponds to the value of the PACKAGES field in the .lc file for the product.
   • Product Prefix – Name that is appended to the beginning of the XML filename.
2. Click Save License Mapping XML File.

To map a license file to a family, complete the following steps:

1. Fill in the fields in the Family Mapping XML section of the Mapping XMLs tab of the XML File Generator. Most of the fields are self-explanatory. The following list describes fields that might require additional explanation.
   • Family Name – Corresponds to the value of the FAMILY field in the .lc file for the product.
   • Product Prefix – Name that is appended to the beginning of the XML filename.
2. Click Save Family Mapping XML File.

[jarcTek]

Hi David,

Using Families I should be able to have 2 or more license types for my library, correct? For example, Student Edition and Professional Edition?

Let me know your comments!