Our university is testing Amazon WorkSpaces for our students to access lab software from anywhere in the world. We use NI software, to include Labview, DAQ, and Circuit Design. Currently, our licensing is set up on a license server. We run the NI VLM 3.1 and control our licensing based on the host name of the computer. While tedious to set up each individual computer, this has worked OK for us. However, with the cloud based desktops, each time a user logs in, a virtual desktop is spun up with a unique name for that session. Therefore, hostname based licensing will not work for us.
You might suggest user based licensing. But with potentially 1000's of different students having access to this service that dynamically change each semester, it would become a headache to manage that.
Is there a way to license NI software that is just based on the number of concurrent users (not reaching the maximum ammount authorized) and not based on the user or computer name? We don't really care to manage what computers or what users have access, we just don't want to exceed our purchased amount of licenses.
Any ideas?
