Viewing List of Published Web Services on NI Web Server

Issue Details

I have published a web service to the NI Web Server, and it seems to work as expected. However, I cannot find a menu to view my list of published web services similar to  http://localhost:3582/web-config/web-services for the Application Web Server.

Is there another way to see a list of web services that are published?

Solution

The NI Web Server does not provide any functionality for checking the list of deployed web services. You would have to manually check the file system on disk, as each web service will have an INI file in C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Shared\Web Services\NI\_lightweight. 

You can use your command prompt terminal to generate a list by using the following command - 

dir /s/b "C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Shared\Web Services\NI\_lightweight\*.ini

If your web services were installed via packages, you might also check the NI Package Manager for installed services.

Additional Information

There are two types of web services supported by NI Web Server:

• AMQP Web Services (LabVIEW web services fall into this category, but SystemLink has some too) put an INI file in the C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Shared\Web Services\NI\_lightweight directory, one for each web service with a name matching the web service name (e.g., _lightweight\nitag.ini).

• C Web Services (only SystemLink has these) each create a directory under C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Shared\Web Services\NI that contains a WebService.ini file (e.g., nitag\WebService.ini).

Therefore to get the full list of web services, you would do a file listing of all INI files in C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Shared\Web Services\NI\_lightweight and a directory listing of C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Shared\Web Services\NI (excluding the _lightweight directory). Running the following script,

dir /s/b "C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Shared\Web Services\NI\*.ini in the command-prompt would give an approximate listing.