04-13-2010 01:27 PM
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,
<<- N ->>
04-14-2010 08:11 AM - edited 04-14-2010 08:12 AM
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.
04-15-2010 04:39 PM
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,
<<- N ->>
04-16-2010 05:00 PM
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!
05-05-2015 04:42 PM
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,
05-06-2015 03:50 PM
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.