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I have been getting a lot of support questions regarding activating lately. To be more specific, users are saying that their serial number is invalid when they try to activate the software. In this post, I am going to detail how to activate your LabVIEW software properly. Using the LabVIEW Installer If you purchased, you most likely only have LabVIEW, or Ultiboard. It’s possible that you have all three. This is important to note because the installer (depending on which one you are given) will often list lots of different software that you may not actually have a serial number for.
This is usually the source of the “Invalid Serial Number” error. For example, if you put in your LabView serial number where it asks you for the NI SignalExpress serial number, then you will receive an error. This is because your serial number is only good for LabVIEW, not SignalExpress. Once the software is actually installed on your computer, you will need to activate it. Follow these steps to ensure a smooth activation. Go to Start → All Programs → → NI License Manager. This will open up the License Manager for your.
Within the NI License Manager, navigate to the NI software of interest under Local Licenses. For Instance, Local Licenses»LabVIEW 2016»Development System»Professional Development System. If the software is activated, the box next to it will be green and the serial number will be located in the Serial Number field as seen below. LabVIEW is a graphical programming platform that helps engineers scale from design to test and from small to large systems. It integrates with existing legacy software, IP, and hardware while capitalizing on the latest computing technologies.
This is where you can see all your licensing information. This is also where you activate your licenses.
Under the hierarchy that says “Local Licenses”, find the product that you need to activate and left click on it. You will see an “Activate” button near the top left of the window. Click on this button. A wizard will pop up with a few options to choose from. I recommend using the “Automatically Activate Through a Secure Internet Connection” option. Then hit Next. The next window will show you a list of possible products that you can activate.
Again, your serial number is only good for certain products. If you do not know which products, I recommend looking at your purchase order and confirming what it is that you purchased. Fill out the serial number information for the applicable programs and hit Next. On the next window, you will be asked to login to your NI profile. Go ahead and do so. If you do not have an account yet, click on the “Create a New User Profile” option and make a new account. Once this is done, click Next and the activation process will begin.
Once it’s done, it will let you know if it succeeded or failed. If you have any failures, it is most likely because your serial number does not cover the failed products.
I hope this is helpful. Feel free to leave comments.
This will be a short blog post that covers installing and activating LabView 2012 silently. This was quite the task because LabView silent activation is a nightmare to deal with.
Notes:. This guide will cover installing the 64 bit version of Labview 2012 service pack 1. You will need to have valid licenses from National Instruments. I using a volume license (not on a server). I cannot confirm if this will work without a volume license. To activate silently, you will need to know the “family” name of your Labview product. Labview does not publish the “family” names of its products, or at least I haven’t found any information on their website.
There is a way to find out your family name from the temporary license file, which I will cover at the end of the post. Prerequisites:.
Please obtain Labview 2012 with Service pack 1, which can be found in. Please obtain Labview 2012 SP1 “f2” patch, which can be found in. Organize your installation files.
First run the two executable files that you downloaded from NI. These will download some archives from NI for you. Unzip the Labview 2012 SP1 files into a folder called “Labview 2012”. Make a folder called “patch f2” inside your “Labview 2012” directory. Your “Labview 2012” directory should look like this.
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Setup your batch file Labview’s installer is very similar to an msi. Many msi commands can be used on Labview’s installer.
First make a batch file called “installlabview.cmd” and place this in your “Labview 2012” folder. Edit the batch file and add the following lines. Basically this will install Labview 2012 SP1 silently. REM Install labview 2012 silent setup.exe /qn /AcceptLicenses yes /r:n REM Install Patch '. Patch f2 setup.exe' /qn /AcceptLicenses yes REM Post-install Licensing 'C: Program Files (x86) National Instruments Shared License Manager Bin nilmUtil.exe' -family 'LabVIEWADE120001' -serialnumber 'X##X#####' -firstname 'Department Of Chemistry' -lastname 'chemistry' -organizationname 'The Ohio State University' -s. Note: “/AcceptLicenses” is for Microsoft Silverlight and other third party software.
This is not dealing with Labview licensing. Labview Licensing Labview uses an application called “nilmUtil.exe”(included) to license its products. More information on this can be found in the section of NI website. To use nilmUtil.exe for silent licensing, you need to include 5 pieces of information.
Modify your batch file licensing section with the following information. The family name of the Labview product. serial number (you get from NI). first and last name.
organization name. silent switch Troubleshooting licensing problems After the installation, if Labview states that its in “Evaluation mode”, then the silent activation failed.
This is most likely due to the “family” name being wrong in some way. Below you can see that the naming conventions for the “family name” are very product/update specific:. “Labview 2012” uses the famiy name “LabVIEWADE120000”. “Labview 2012 with SP1” uses the family name “LabVIEWADE120001” If you are having trouble with finding your family name, please look at the next section or contact NI support. Determining your Labview product family name. Note: I have only tested this technique on Labview 2012.
I cannot guarantee that this will work for all Labview products. To determine your family name, you must do a manual installation of your Labview software.
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After the manual installation is finished, we can look at the temporary license file that has been given to your system. Navigate to “C: ProgramData National Instruments License Manager Licenses” and you should see a file(s) that are named something like “LabviewPDSPKG120001.lc”.
Open the license file in notepad and you should see something that looks like this. SERVER THISHOST ANY 27000 VENDOR nilm PACKAGE LabVIEWFDSPKG nilm 12.0001 COMPONENTS='LabVIEWCore LabVIEWBase LabVIEWFull LabVIEWFDS LabVIEWMath:8.0601 LabVIEWLabVIEW:7.0100 NIDAQDAQAssistant:7.0000' SIGN=72AB456ACG12C INCREMENT LabVIEWFDSPKG nilm 12.0001 1-jan-1900 uncounted HOSTID=DEMO vendorinfo='VERSIONSTRING=2012 SP1 VISIBLETO64 FAMILY=LabVIEWADE120001 TYPE=Application LABEL=Full Development System URL=TSOK SIGN=8DSLA13233DA. Looking through the license file, you should find a option called “Family= LabVIEWblahblah”. This is the family name of the product you are trying to license. Insert this family name into the licensing section “family” switch in our batch file.
Rerun the installation and your product should activate silently. IF this section did not help you, please contact NI support. I can help no further.