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Connecting Instruments to LAN
Step 7: Communicate with Instruments
Step 7: Communicate with Instruments
What’s in This Step? This section gives guidelines to communicate with your instruments using
VISA Assistant. When you have verified communication with your
instruments (as desired), go to Step 8: Program Your Instruments
.
You can use applications such as VISA Assistant or the Telnet utility to
verify communication with instruments via the LAN.
7 Communicate with Instruments
You can use VISA Assistant
to verify communication with
instruments.
NOTE
Communication with installed LAN instruments was established in
Step 6: Configure the LAN Interface
if the instrument(s) were displayed
in the
TCPIP devices dialog box. Thus, this is an optional step you can use
to verify communication with instruments.