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SystemLink™ software is a trusted, centralized platform for engineering and test teams of all sizes to plan, manage, and optimize tests. It simplifies software deployment and systems management and boosts performance by using data to find correlations and remove inefficiencies.
SystemLink helps test teams manage and configure test systems, deploy software, locate assets, and track calibration from a single platform, reducing downtime and eliminating drift across the lab.
Monitor system health, deploy software remotely, track calibration, and maintain consistent configurations across every test station, so teams keep systems running, software current, and assets ready as their test infrastructure grows.
Explore the platform capabilities that standardize, scale, and secure test operations.
SystemLink provides centralized visibility into test system utilization, asset health, and calibration status across distributed test environments. Aggregated operational data supports capacity planning, compliance tracking, and proactive maintenance.
SystemLink enables controlled distribution and configuration of software across connected test systems to maintain version consistency and reduce configuration drift.
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SystemLink connects NI software LabVIEW, TestStand, DIAdem, FlexLogger, and InstrumentStudio to centralize system management, automate deployment, and unify test data workflows across distributed environments.
Customer Priority | NI SystemLink | DIY/In-House Build | Vendor Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
Functionality Coverage | Deployment, monitoring, analytics, governance in one platform | Built per use case | Focused on single domain |
Tool Integration | Native with NI tools and extensible multivendor hardware | Custom integration required | Optimized for vendor stack |
Scalability | Designed to grow with your lab | Requires redesign to scale | Scales within vendor ecosystem |
Time to Deploy | Self-guided setup in days | Months to build | Faster than DIY, service-led |
Security Model | Built-in RBAC, encryption, managed updates | Internal CVE tracking and patching required | Vendor-defined controls |
Maintenance Burden | Updates and compatibility included | Continuous internal support required | Vendor roadmap dependent |
Cost Profile | Predictable subscription | Long-term maintenance often underestimated | License + customization fees |
Flexibility | Open APIs, mixed-vendor support | Fully custom, resource-intensive | Constrained to vendor tool chain |
SystemLink supports NI PXI systems, CompactRIO controllers, NI data acquisition devices, Windows-based test systems, NI Linux Real-Time targets, and third-party instruments through the NI-VISA instrument driver, enabling centralized management across mixed-vendor test environments.
SystemLink manages NI PXI chassis and modular instruments used in validation and production test environments. It enables centralized software deployment, health monitoring, asset tracking, and utilization visibility across distributed Windows and NI Linux Real-Time PXI systems.
NI CompactRIO and other NI Linux Real-Time controllers are supported as SystemLink nodes for deterministic control and edge processing applications. SystemLink enables centralized configuration, deployment, system monitoring, and lifecycle management of real-time test assets.
Your systems must meet the following requirements to use SystemLink.
For more details on sizing guidance, refer to the official SystemLink requirements documentation.
SystemLink centralizes test results and product data from NI software LabVIEW, TestStand, and FlexLogger, as well as Python, test files, and more—helping teams identify patterns, investigate failures, and resolve issues faster.
As results publish from your test systems, SystemLink connects each one to software versions, assets, calibration, configuration, and conditions that produced it. Teams can compare results, spot outliers and quality trends, uncover correlations, and quickly answer questions like “what changed?” to reduce the time spent piecing together data and accelerating failure analysis.
SystemLink provides a connected live view of lab performance, product quality, and operational health across every test station.
SystemLink connects operational and test data into a unified view, helping teams understand the relationships between systems, software versions, assets, workflows, and test results. Built-in and custom dashboards provide visibility into utilization, calibration status, system health, failure trends, quality metrics, and test progress, enabling faster troubleshooting and more informed decisions.
SystemLink automates test data analysis and reporting, running Python and Jupyter Notebook workflows on demand, on a schedule, or automatically when new results arrive.
Turn raw test data into engineering insight without repetitive manual work. SystemLink runs analysis routines, Jupyter Notebooks, and Python scripts—triggered by events, schedules, or new test results—to process parametric and waveform data, generate reports, and update dashboards automatically. Integration with NI DIAdem extends advanced post-processing and report generation, so engineers spend less time compiling data and more time solving engineering problems.
SystemLink helps teams plan, schedule, and optimize test operations, turning disconnected operational data into higher efficiency and throughput.
By connecting systems, software, assets, workflows, schedules, and test data, SystemLink creates the operational context needed to coordinate work orders and test plans, identify bottlenecks, and improve resource utilization. Teams can optimize performance using complete operational data rather than isolated metrics from disconnected tools, so teams can act on insight in minutes, not days.
SystemLink uses NI Nigel™ AI to help teams uncover trends, answer questions in natural language, and automate decisions.
AI is only as powerful as the context behind it. By connecting systems, software, assets, workflows, schedules, and test data in a single platform, SystemLink gives Nigel the context to identify anomalies, uncover trends, answer operational questions, optimize schedules, and surface recommendations—helping validation engineers, lab managers, and test teams make faster, more confident decisions.
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NI DAQ hardware used in laboratory and production test systems can be monitored and managed through SystemLink. This functionality enables centralized software updates, system visibility, and operational insight across DAQ-based stations.
SystemLink supports third-party instruments connected through NI-VISA, including LXI, USB-TMC, and GPIB devices running on Windows-based systems. This capability enables centralized management in mixed-vendor test environments without requiring hardware replacement.
SystemLink connects Windows-based test systems running LabVIEW, TestStand, FlexLogger, or custom applications. These systems can be centrally managed for deployment, monitoring, access control, and data workflows across distributed test environments.
