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NI VLM API

Hello there,

 

I'm planning to write an application to monitor several test stations running TestStand (30+) and I was wondering if there is a way (API or something) to query the NI LVM for a list of stations with a registered license, both per station and per user.

 

Thanks for your help,

 

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Hi N,

 

unfortunately, there is no exposed VLM API at this time, however you could query the options file nilm.opt, located in the VLM directory (default C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Volume License Manager\nilm.opt).  This file contains all of the assigned permissions and is ascii, so you could write a tool to parse through the entries and generate a list of users and computers with access to TestStand.

Message Edited by Al B on 04-14-2010 08:12 AM
Al B.
Staff Software Engineer - TestStand
CTA/CLD
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Hi Al,

 

Thanks for your response, I'll try doing that on my application. A follow up question, are there any plans to have an API in future releases (NI VM3.X)?

 

Thanks again,

 

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Hi N,

 

I don't believe there are any plans for this unfortunately.  I would like to look into this a bit more, however - I'll let you know if I find anything else!

Al B.
Staff Software Engineer - TestStand
CTA/CLD
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Has there been any movement to create an API in the latest versions of VLM?  This discussion is older so I thought I'd check.

 

Thanks,

jigg
CTA, CLA
testeract.com
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Hi jigg,

 

Thanks for the question.  I would recommend starting a new forum post, as the followers of this post may no longer be active.  It doesn't look like there has been any movement towards introducing a VLM API to TestStand from NI's public documentation, but perhaps other community members would be able to provide more insight.

Andy G
Applications Engineering
National Instruments
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