User`s guide

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Programming Your Instruments
Addressing Instruments
Configuring TCPIP
LAN Client
Interfaces
When you have configured VISA LAN Client interfaces, you can then use
the interface name specified during configuration in a VISA
viOpen call of
your program. A summary of the steps to configure a TCPIP LAN Client
interface follows.
1 To configure TCPIP LAN Client interfaces using the IO Config utility,
click the
Agilent IO Libraries Control icon (blue IO icon on the Windows
taskbar) and click
Run IO Config. When the main screen appears,
highlight the
TCPIP LAN Client (LAN Instruments) menu item and then
click the
Configure button.
2 When the
LAN Client screen appears, set the SICL Interface Name,
VISA Interface Name, Logical Unit number, Server Timeout value, and
Client Timeout Delta as required. Also, you can select the Default
Protocol
(AUTO, VXI-11, or SICL-LAN) and choose whether or not to
Log Errors. Then, click the OK button.
NOTE
A single
TCPIP LAN Client interface can be used by any number of
VISA LAN Client interfaces. The main reason for having more than one
LAN Client configured is that you want to use different protocols
(such as SICL-LAN or VXI-11) in different
VISA LAN Clients.