Agilent Technologies E5810A User Manual

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Chapter 2

Installing the E5810A
Installing and Configuring Agilent IO Libraries Suite

named

TCPIP0

is configured when you start or refresh Connection

Expert. To change timeouts and protocol properties for your remote
interface, you must change the properties of this TCPIP interface.

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If your E5810 is on a different subnet from your client PC

, type the

hostname or IP address of the E5810 in the

Remote GPIB interface

dialog box. Change the value in the

Interface name on remote host:

field,

if necessary, to match the

GPIB SICL Interface Name

displayed on the

E5810

Welcome

page.

If your E5810 is on the same subnet as your client PC

, click

Find

Interfaces...

. Then, in the

Find Remote GPIB Interfaces

dialog, click

Find Now

, select your E5810 from the list, and click

OK

to return to the

Remote GPIB interface

dialog box.

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In the

Remote GPIB interface

dialog box, click

Test connection

to check

connectivity to your E5810. If the test is successful, you will see the
message

The interface was successfully opened

.

If you leave the check box labeled

Auto-discover instruments connected

to this interface

checked, then when you click

OK

, Connection Expert

will search for GPIB instruments connected to your E5810 and will send
a

*IDN?

(identification) query to each instrument found. You will then

see the new remote GPIB interface and any attached GPIB instruments
in the Connection Expert’s explorer view.

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