Get list of services from NI service locator

[wrkcrw00]

If you have the name of a service, you can open up a TCP connection to it from a remote target. The NI Service Locator can resolve the name into the port to connect on. 

Is there a way to query the remote target for a list of all services in the NI Service Locator?

In many cases I have more than one LabVIEW application running on a computer. Each will start up a listener with a service name. I'd like to be able to query the NI Service Locator to see what applications are running. I don't want to rely on knowing the service names because the number of apps and their service names changes from system to system.

[Mark_Yedinak · Accepted solution]

http://<IP-Address>:3580/dumpinfo

For example, sue http://localhost:3580/dumpinfo to get the list of active services on your local computer or use http://192.168.1.100:3580/dumpinfo to get the list off the computer with the IP address of 192.168.1.100. If you do this from within a VI will will need to write a parser that can parse the HTML response.

[wrkcrw00]

Excellent, that works. Thanks. Now, parsing that return will be fun...