Establishing the connection between NI LabVIEW and VIPM

[VarshiniPasumamula]

"When I try to establish communication between NI LabVIEW and VIPM, an error occurs, preventing the installation of the required files. I have already tried all the online suggestions, but they didn’t resolve the issue. Could you please help me identify the problem?"

[Bob_Schor]

Good morning (at least it is morning for me).

Your description of not being able to connect to VIPM "sounds like" you might not "connected" it to your version of LabVIEW.  When you open VIPM, you should see something in the upper part of the window that looks like this:

You can see that on my machine, it "expects" to connect to LabVIEW 2024, 64-bit.  The connection is made using TCP/IP, so you need to make sure your version of LabVIEW is set up to use TCP/IP.  To do this, open LabVIEW 2024, 64-bit, go to Tools/Options, and choose "VI Server".  Make sure the Protocols box has TCP/IP checked.  The default Port VIPM expects is 3363 -- if you have multiple versions of LabVIEW, you may want to assign 3364 as the Port (or may not -- I always use 3363 for VIPM even if I have 2-4 versions of LabVIEW installed).

Once this is done, you need to go back to VIPM and make sure it can "connect" with LabVIEW.  The way to do this is to close LabVIEW, open VIPM, click the little downward arrow in the box showing the LabVIEW Version it expects to use, which brings up another window:

This is what it shows after you verify, which (if you haven't done this step yet), you do by pushing the "Verify" button with the check mark at the bottom of the window.  What it will then do is to try to open LabVIEW, and if it succeeds within 2 minutes, it will mark this VIPM session as "Verified", and you should be Good to Go.

Bob Schor

[VarshiniPasumamula]

Greetings!!

Thanks for your reply!

However, I’m still unable to resolve the issue. I’ve reviewed the suggestions you provided in both VIPM and LabVIEW. I’ve attached snapshots of both screens for your reference. Please take a look and let me know if there’s anything else I should check.

Even after both are in TCP/IP only. It is throwing the same error.

 Waiting for your reply 🙂

[cordm]

You may have to add your IP address to the Machine access list in LabVIEW's VI Server configuration.

For me, localhost does not work, try adding 127.0.0.1. (Although I am pretty sure that did not always suffice in the past, maybe a VIPM bug.)

If that still does not work, look at the output of ipconfig and choose an IP that won't change. So not a VPN IP that you may not be connected to at all times.

As a last resort, you can always put an * there. Then everyone has access.

[billko]

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@VarshiniPasumamula wrote:

Greetings!!

Thanks for your reply!

However, I’m still unable to resolve the issue. I’ve reviewed the suggestions you provided in both VIPM and LabVIEW. I’ve attached snapshots of both screens for your reference. Please take a look and let me know if there’s anything else I should check.

Even after both are in TCP/IP only. It is throwing the same error.

 Waiting for your reply 🙂

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Are you sure that VIPM is looking for LV 2019 0n that port?

[VarshiniPasumamula]

I have tried both IP address and * but didn't receive positive response anywhere!!

[VarshiniPasumamula]

How to verify that!!

But when i try to open VIPM...i am seeing 2019 64-bit on the left corner!!

let me know if i can check somewhere else aswell.