Additional Information
If this default port range is not sufficient for your needs, you can add a file to your client computers to override where the client software expects to find the license on the server. This will allow you to specify any port to host the licenses. To do this, make the following changes:
- Create three new files named "AAA_PortRedirect.lic", "AAB_PortRedirect.lic" and "AAC_PortRedirect.lic" in the folder which contains the rest of your license files. This is usually
C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Shared\License Manager\Licenses
. - In this file, add the following lines of text:
SERVER serverName ANY portNumber
USE_SERVER
where serverName
is the server name which hosts your licenses and portNumber
is the port number which hosts the licenses. The NI License Manager will begin looking at the first file, "AAA_PortRedirect.lic" and then will move through the files alphabetically, so the first server should be listed in "AAA_PortRedirect.lic", the second in "AAB_PortRedirect.lic" and the third in "AAC_PortRedirect.lic". - Configure the NI License Manager to not use a Network License Server.