TestStand Deployment Engine Serial Number

Is there a way to get the Serial Number/License of a TestStand Deployment Engine that is installed on a PC?
The NI License Manager does not report the Serial Number of the Deployment Engine.
I have even tried to search the Window Registry.
We have over 100 TestStand Deployment Licenses in our installed software database. Split between BASE and DEBUG Deployment.
But I can’t find any way to tell/verify which license is on which machine. Just about all are on XP machine that are in need of replacement.
Just about all are TestStand 4.1
Omar

First of all I'm sorry that NI convinced you that a Debug deployment license was a viable option... I actually didn't know people would purchase those. That's funny.
So the license files are stored in %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\National Instruments\License Manager\Licenses. I was hoping the serial number would be in there. But it's not.
One thing you might want to consider to manage this a whole lot easier is to talk NI into giving you a VLM that you can put on a server and adding all your deployment licenses to it. We do this and it has saved us thousands, if not 10s of thousands of dollars. Now we can manage all the deployment licenses on the VLM. It has also forced us to follow the NI license agreement a lot closer than we were.
Sometimes you can't have all the computers on the LAN. In this case you can just assign disconnected licenses but still have VLM manage it for you.
Your last option would be to set up your own spreadsheet and manage it in there.
We were in the same boat as you a few years ago. So we contacted NI and got a list of all the licenses we had purchased in the last 10 years and threw them up on VLM. Then we had IT go through and look for a specific license file with an activated code inside of it on all the machines on the LAN. We got that list and contacted each of the PC "owners" and had them switch to point to VLM. In most cases we found the licenses weren't needed anymore so we could transfer those.
Hope this helps,
jigg
CTA, CLA
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How can a CVI module access the UUT serial number already stored in TestStand?

I'm using the parallel model and I need to program each of my UUT's EEPROM with its serial number. I know that
TestStand has the serial number and I've gathered from the Developer exchange that it is stored in RunState.Caller.Locals.UUT.SerialNumber, but how does my CVI module access it? Can it be passed to the module, if so, how? or what is the exact form of the TestStand API function that can be used to access the serial number. Thank-you for any suggestions.

Hi lynx,
if you have a look at the way in which the parallel and batch process models work, they're a two stage process model, i.e. the process model sequence your (main) sequence sees is called by an another process model. In this case, RunState.Caller on it's own only takes you up one level, but RunState.Caller.RunState.Caller will take you to the top level process model. When dealing with multi-UUT models, it depends on which serial number you're after (parallel serial numbers are stored in the TestUUTs model entry point->Locals.ModelData.TestSockets[0].UUT.SerialNumber
where the [0] signifies the testsocket you're looking at (i.e. if it's the third testsocket, use [2].)
batch serial numbers are stored in the same place, with the addition of the BatchSerialNumber (i.e. TestUUTs model entry point->Locals.ModelData.TestSockets[0].UUT.BatchSerialNumber, however there is also a BatchSerialNumber in TestUUTs model entry point->Locals.ModelData.BatchSerialNumber which is the same as the above one.
You can always use the RunState.Root to get to the main calling process model, and in the case of the parallel and batch process models, the serial numbers are passed down from the top level execution entry point anyway into RunState.Root.Parameters.ModelData.TestSockets[0].UUT.SerialNumber
(otherwise, if you're very buried in sequences, i.e. your mainsequence calls another which calls another etc etc, your call gets longer and longer - in cases like this I tend to use a Parameter, and pass the serial number down through the levels)
If you want the data as if it came from the top level, since the LabVIEW adapter needs to see the data in a particular place, you can also use
RunState.Root.Locals.UUT.SerialNumber.
The quickest way I've found to find stuff is to create a new sequence file with just a label step in it. Set the sequence file to use the appropriate process model you're interested in, and set the label step to a breakpoint. You can then look at the context tab once you've set the sequence running from your desired execution entry point, and browse away.
There's some great documentation in \Components\NI\Models\TestStandModels\TestStandProcessModels.PDF
explaining how the process models actually work.
A word of warning though - if you decide to change the serial numbers on the fly (one particular case is if you needed a bar code serial number which included information on failures for example), because the serial number is available in several places, you need to check where the report generation is picking up it's serial number information from.
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I'm using TestStand 1.0.3 and I have a requirement to pass the serial number to a VI from the user prompt in the Labview Operator Interface. Where can I reference this variable ?

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Runstate.Root.Locals.UUT.SerialNumber
Check the NI Web site for
"How do I Access the UUT Serial Number in My Sequence or Test Code?"
at .....
RESOURCE LIBRARY>TESTSTAND>SEQUENCE EXECUTION>GENERAL
It states ...
At runtime, you can access the UUT serial number using Runstate.Root.Locals.UUT.SerialNumber. The serial number and UUTLoopIndex is a local variable of the default process model. Below is the definition for Runstate.Root. This is copied from Chapter 8 of the TestStand User Manual.
Runstate.Root:
Sequence context for the root sequence invocation. If you initiate an execution using a process model entry point, the property is the sequence context for the process model entry point. For example, if you use an entry point from the default TestStand process model, the
Root property is the sequence context of the Test UUTs or the Single Pass sequence. If you initiate an execution on a sequence without using a process model entry point, the Root property object is the sequence context for the sequence you run.
When you are editing a sequence, the expression browser does not display the sub-properties of Runstate.Root because these properties are filled in at runtime. They are dynamic properties.

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Those numbers should be on the internet. Apologies if my answers are confusing. I'll try again:
You can't deploy without a serial number.
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Why do want to be able to edit users on every test station. You can make life simpler by putting your users.ini file in a network location and from Station Options>User Manager, point to that location. That way you only have to add users once and you can do that from the development system. Even if there's a reason to have different users for different stations, you could just copy the different users.ini files you create to the local TestStand directories on the test stations. I do that with the StationGlobals.ini file. I find it easier to have of my test stations use the same station globals. I define the unique ones as sequence file globals. When I do have to add a new station global, I take my local copy of StationGlobals.ini and just do a c
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I have a vi in Teststand that reads data over a serial port. The data is binary. In that data is the UUT's Serial number. For reasons unknow I can convert the serial data to hex but NOT decimal. Rather than waste a ton of time trying to figure out why, I thought I'd just convert the sn typed in by the user in Teststand ( stored in: runstate.caller.locals.uut.serialnumber) to HEX. Then do the comparison. How?? Isn't TS serial numb a string?? When I tried val( runstate.caller.locals.uut.serialnumber) it gave me an error.
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Any way to test teststand deployment without base deployment engine?

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I am currently working on a teststand/labview program for the manufactuerer for my company. I would like to test the deployment files I have created but we do not have a base deployment engine license. Is there a way to get around this for testing purposes? I would like to be able to deploy this to a PC without the teststand/labview development system since that is what I will be deploying it to eventually.

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Usually the properties of the report are set either using the Configure Report Dialog from the menu bar or during execution using the ReportOptions sequence callback. ReportOptions initially contains the information set from the Configure Report Options dialog but you are able to change this information during your sequence file execution by using the Override Callback sequence ReportOptions.
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