Volume License Agreement Community Documents
NI VLM 3.0 is designed to save you time managing your VLA licenses. The biggest time savings come from the reduced time spent creating and installing Volume License Installers when new versions of software in your VLA release. You can also customize the Volume License Installers by selecting the software available for installation and determining which permissions to pass on to your clients.
To save you time creating and installing Volume License Installers, the redesigned Volume License Installer wizard uses groups created in NI VLM, pulls in your serial numbers, and remembers previous selections so you will not have configure them each time. Once you create your groups in NI VLM, the Volume License Installer wizard automatically pulls them in. Furthermore, you don’t need to adjust them for each new version of your VLA software. The Volume License Installer wizard also automatically pulls the correct serial numbers from your volume license file, so you don’t have to remember your serial numbers for NI VLM. The Volume License Installer wizard is smart enough to know what selections you have made the last time you ran the wizard. You can click Next to quickly progress through the wizard and not have to reconfigure the Volume License Installer each time. See how Figure 1 preselects selections based on previous Volume License Installers.
Figure 1. Volume License Installer Wizard defaults to previous selections
The redesigned Volume License Installers are customizable. They allow you to choose which software is available for installation in the Volume License Installer. When the client installs the Volume License Installer, the software for which they have permissions will be preselected and they will have the option of choosing to evaluate other available software. This feature reduces client confusion about what software they need to install and reduces the disk footprint and build time of the Volume License Installer itself. See how you would choose which software is available in the Volume License Installer wizard in Figure 2. If you do not want to choose which software is available for installation, you can leave all the software available.
Figure 2. Preselecting the software available for install
You can also customize which groups are available in the Volume License Installer. Instead of pointing your clients to a specific executable within a Volume License Installer with their specific permissions, you will point them to a single executable within a Volume License Installer and they can select which group they want to join. The group description allows you to give clients information on who should use that group. The Volume License Installer knows which groups the clients are in, so if they have installed the Volume License Installer once, they don’t have to select the group again. They can select Next to quickly progress through the wizard. Figure 3 shows how to select groups for the Volume License Installer.
Figure 3. Client selecting the group to install
