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I am in the process of building a new image from scratch and I just installed NI Academic Spring 2016. I went into the license manager and added our server to the path. Now, the license manager gets hung up querying the server for licenses and just sits there. And sits there. And sits there untill you kill the process. It does the same thing on startup, too. I can telnet to both the lmgrd and vendor ports and other machines on campus (built from different images) are working. What do I need to do to get this working?
No luck. I don't have any LM license variables and adding that DNS suffix didn't help. I'm using the FQDN to connect to the server anyway, so that shouldn't make a difference. Like I said, I can telnet to the ports that the NI lmgrd and daemon are using, but for whatever reason the license manager still hangs when trying to connect to the server.
By new install do you mean the NI Academic Spring 2016 software you just received or is it part of the new image you are creating? Can you try installing the new software on any other client computers and replicate the behavior of this hang?
- Does this machine have the most up to date version of NI License Manager installed (3.7)?
- Any firewall or other application that might be blocking License Manager from connecting?
- Just as a sanity check but this Academic Site License does require VLM activation correct? Beacuse I know some Academic Site License software packages are activated through VLM and some are activated locally through standard activation procedures
The problem still exists when I turn off the Windows Firewall.
Our site license can be activated both via the VLM and locally, but I would prefer to do everything through the former since it is more centrally manageable.
