Temporary network licenses are created on client machines when a licensed software program launches. Temporary network licenses ensure software access in the event that the volume license server is unreachable from the client machine, because the network was down, the volume license server was stopped, or because the client machine was disconnected from the network. The NI software must have previously been checked out successfully for the temporary license to be generated.

The temporary network license is valid for 14 days from the first time the license is used. During this time, the client's software runs but displays a warning message each time the client launches the product.

Note Temporary network licenses are not created when the volume license server is running on the same computer as the NI software, when you check out a concurrent license from a volume license server, or when products are in evaluation mode.