Install the ni software they want to use onto their computer. In addition, there is a third way to. There are two ways to modify the way a computer id is generated, depending on the version of ni license manager you have installed.
There are two sources that the computer id can be based on. This article presents a solution to an error in ni license manager when the status message shows as activated for a different computer. This computer id is built with a mac address or disk volume serial number.
Ni software is activated based on your computer id. When activating a license, the ni license manager chooses a computer id from all active mac addresses (or disk volume serial numbers). The client can contact you with the. What can change the computer id and how do i get it.
Launch ni license manager and click display computer information. When i pulled up the computer description, it gave me a different computer id then what was on my activation email. Ni product activation uses the computer id of a computer to uniquely identify it. With this, unless you change your harddriver or format it, it will.
A workaround is to ask ni for an activation code based on computer id that is generated from your hard drive. This behavior is expected if you have. Whenever changes to hardware, like the hard. As long as these devices are present.