Configuring a remote gpib interface – Agilent Technologies E5810A User Manual

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Chapter 2

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Installing the E5810A

Installing and Configuring Agilent IO Libraries Suite

Configuring a Remote GPIB Interface

This section shows the steps to configure a remote GPIB interface, which
is a logical interface on the client PC that supports communication with GPIB
instruments on your E5810. If you do not have GPIB instruments connected
to your E5810, but do have an RS-232 instrument connected, skip this
section and go to

“Configuring a Remote Serial Interface”

on page 65.

1

Click the Agilent IO Control icon (IO icon on the Windows taskbar
notification area) and click

Agilent Connection Expert

to display the

Connection Expert utility’s main window.

2

Click

Add an interface

on the Connection Expert toolbar.

3

In the

Manually Add an Interface

dialog box, select

Remote GPIB

interface

and click

Add

. The

Remote GPIB Interface

dialog will appear.

4

Specify the TCPIP interface that you wish to use to host this remote
interface, in the

TCPIP interface ID:

field. This must be an interface that

is already configured on your system; by default, a LAN interface

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