Installation guide

Chapter 4 101
Configuring I/O Interfaces
Configuring LAN Interfaces
When the Agilent LAN Server screen appears, set the Server Timeout as
required. Also, as required, set Log Errors, Log Locks and Connections
and/or Use Keepalive Client Probes. Then, click the
OK button.
Example:
Configuring LAN
Server Interface
The LAN Server interface system in the following figure consists of a
Windows PC acting as a LAN client, a second PC acting as a LAN server,
and a GPIB instrument. The IO Config utility has been used to assign the
LAN card a VISA name of “TCPIP0” and SICL name of “lan”. Also, the GPIB
card in the LAN server PC has been assigned VISA name of “GPIB0” and
SICL name of “hpib7”. The LAN server PC has been assigned a name of
machine2.
Since unique names have been assigned by IO Config, you can now use the
VISA viOpen command or the SICL iopen command to open the IO paths
to the GPIB instruments as shown in the figure. See the Agilent VISA User’s
Guide for details on VISA commands. See the Agilent SICL User’s Guide for
details on SICL commands.