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114 Agilent Connectivity Guide
5 Connecting Instruments to LAN
Step 4: Communicate with Instruments
You can use the Interactive IO utility within Connection Expert, VISA
Assistant, or the Telnet utility to verify communication with instruments
via the LAN.
This section gives guidelines to communicate with your instruments
using Interactive IO.
Interactive IO is a software utility that lets you interactively send
commands to instruments and see their responses without writing any
program code.
You can use Interactive IO to quickly verify connectivity to your
instrument, to troubleshoot communication problems, to learn the
instrument's command set, and to rapidly prototype commands and
check the instrument's responses before writing code.
Start Interactive IO from within Connection Expert, either by clicking
the Send commands to this instrument task in the task guide, or, on the
Connection Expert menu bar, by clicking Tools > Interactive IO.
Example using Interactive IO
1 Select the desired instrument in the explorer view. Click Tools >
Interactive IO. Interactive IO gives you a number of common IEEE
NOTE
Communication with installed LAN instruments was established in Run
Agilent Connection Expert if the instruments were visible and verified
in the Connection Expert explorer view. Therefore, this is an optional
step you can use to verify communication with instruments.