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NI SystemLink 19.5 Readme

September 2019

This file contains important information about NI SystemLink, including system requirements and known issues.

Overview

System Requirements

Product Security and Critical Updates

Licensing Information for SystemLink Clients

Known Issues

Bug Fixes

Accessing the Help

Using NI Software with Microsoft Windows 10

Using NI Software with Microsoft Windows 8.1

Legal Information

Overview

Use NI SystemLink to discover and manage systems on a server. Create and deploy packages to all your managed systems. Leverage SystemLink data services to visualize data, trigger alarms, monitor tests, manage assets, and transfer files to a server. SystemLink TDM is a Big Analog Data™ solution for automated preparation and analysis of large amounts of data in various formats and structures from different geographic locations.

System Requirements

NI SystemLink has the following minimum system requirements:

Server Requirements

Windows, less than 50 nodes

Windows, 50+ nodes, SystemLink TDM

OS

Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit)1

Windows 7 SP1 (64-bit) or higher

Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit)1

Windows 7 SP1 (64-bit) or higher

Processor

4-core recommended or higher

8-core recommended or higher

RAM

6 GB minimum

16+ GB recommended

16 GB minimum

32+ GB recommended

Disk

6 GB minimum

8+ GB recommended

16+ GB recommended

1 NI software installs VC2015 runtime and .NET 4.6.2. Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2, require Microsoft updates to support these items. Refer to Microsoft KB2919442 and KB2919355 for more information about how to install these updates.

Note  SystemLink TDM does not support server versions from the Microsoft Semi-Annual Channel. In addition, SystemLink TDM does not support Windows Server Core mode.

Target Requirements (Managed Nodes)

NI PXI (Windows) or Windows PC

NI CompactRIO

OS

Windows 7 SP1 (64-bit) or higher

Windows 7 SP1 (32-bit) or higher

NI Linux Real-Time 2019

Processor

Pentium 4 G1 (or equivalent) or later

All Intel and ARM models supported

RAM

2 GB minimum

4 GB recommended

512 MB minimum

1+ GB recommended

Note: NI SystemLink does not support targets with less than 512 MB of RAM.

Disk

1 GB minimum

2+ GB recommended

512 MB

Note: VxWorks and Phar Lap OS are not supported.

Additional Requirements for Servers and Targets

  • .NET Framework 4.6.2
  • One of the following browsers:
    • Chrome
    • Firefox
    • Edge
    • Safari

Note: NI SystemLink 19.5 web applications do not support Internet Explorer.

Supported Software

NI SystemLink 19.5 supports the following LabVIEW versions:

  • LabVIEW 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
  • LabVIEW RT 2017, 2018, 2019

SystemLink TDM supports the following DIAdem versions as clients:

  • DIAdem 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 (recommended)

Product Security and Critical Updates

Visit ni.com/security to view and subscribe to receive security notifications about NI products. Visit ni.com/critical-updates for information about critical updates from NI.

Licensing Information for SystemLink

SystemLink uses Volume License Manager to license server modules and add-ons as well as clients. Download NI Volume License Manager from ni.com and refer to the NI Volume License Manager help for more information on licensing.

If you evaluate NI SystemLink Server before activating, any clients you connect will initially appear as Not Activated in Systems Manager. Use NI SystemLink Web Application to activate the client after you activate the server.

Known Issues

You can access the software and documentation known issues list online. Refer to the NI website for an up-to-date list of known issues in SystemLink.

Bug Fixes

The following items are the IDs and titles of a subset of issues fixed in SystemLink. This is not an exhaustive list of issues fixed in the current version of SystemLink 19.5. If you have a CAR ID, you can search this list to validate that the issue has been fixed.

Note  If you installed SystemLink 19.5.1, refer to the NI SystemLink 19.5.1 Readme for information about the bugs fixed in that version.

ID Fixed Issue
733866 SystemLink TDM crashes if the system is low on RAM or disk space
737691 In rare cases the index may contain orphaned entries due to a race condition. To purge these orphaned entries, the "Optimize Index" method was enhanced.
727677 If you assign the value "MoveToLoadedLevel" to the PropInheritanceModeDF variable in an analysis script, DIAdem does not replace the "root_abc" property with "root~abc". This means that the properties are not grouped correctly.
745479 SystemLink sometimes fails to deploy RT applications when configured to use HTTPS with a self-signed certificate
741742 C# services only uses TLS 1.0 for RabbitMQ connection

Accessing the Help

Refer to the NI SystemLink Manual, accessible from ni.com, for more information about NI SystemLink and the services and APIs it offers.

Using NI Software with Microsoft Windows 10

Microsoft Windows 10 is the latest version of the Windows operating system and features significant changes compared to previous versions. Windows 10 introduces several new capabilities and also combines features from both Windows 7 and Windows 8. For more information about NI support for Windows 10, visit ni.com/windows10.

Using NI Software with Microsoft Windows 8.1

When you install NI software on Microsoft Windows 8.1, you will notice a few additional tiles in the Apps view, including shortcuts to NI application software products such as NI LabVIEW, Measurement & Automation Explorer (NI MAX), and NI Launcher. For more information about NI support for Windows 8.1, visit ni.com/windows8.


Legal Information

© 2017-2019 National Instruments. All rights reserved.

Copyright

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NI respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. NI software is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. Where NI software may be used to reproduce software or other materials belonging to others, you may use NI software only to reproduce materials that you may reproduce in accordance with the terms of any applicable license or other legal restriction.

End-User License Agreements and Third-Party Legal Notices

You can find end-user license agreements (EULAs) and third-party legal notices in the following locations after installation:

  • Notices are located in the <National Instruments>\_Legal Information and <National Instruments> directories.
  • EULAs are located in the <National Instruments>\Shared\MDF\Legal\license directory.
  • Review <National Instruments>\_Legal Information.txt for information on including legal information in installers built with NI products.

U.S. Government Restricted Rights

If you are an agency, department, or other entity of the United States Government ("Government"), the use, duplication, reproduction, release, modification, disclosure or transfer of the technical data included in this manual is governed by the Restricted Rights provisions under Federal Acquisition Regulation 52.227-14 for civilian agencies and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement Section 252.227-7014 and 252.227-7015 for military agencies.

IVI Foundation Copyright Notice

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Patents

For patents covering the NI products/technology, refer to the appropriate location: Help»Patents in your software, the patents.txt file on your media, or the NI Patent Notice at ni.com/patents.

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