Teledyne LeCroy PeRT3 Phoenix System - Manual (Page 21)

Teledyne LeCroy PeRT
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Phoenix System User Manual 19
Introduction Teledyne LeCroy
Connecting to the PeRT
3
Phoenix
Overview of Connection
The PeRT
3
Phoenix System allows the user to be directly connected to the PeRT
3
system
in use, or connect remotely via a network. This latter method is very useful when the
system is located in a lab or other remote location, and the user wishes to conduct testing
from their office (or home).
To support this flexibility, the software application includes both a client, which contains
the user interface displayed to the user, and a server, which communicates directly with
the PeRT
3
hardware. The server must exist on the host machine directly connected to the
hardware, the client may exist on any host machine that has a network connection to the
server. By default, the PeRT
3
installer installs both client and server programs.
When the client is launched, it will first search for a PeRT
3
server on the local host
machine. If it finds a server, it will display "LOCALHOST(local)" in the Server field of the
PeRT
3
Selection panel on the Main tab. It then attempts to connect to the local hardware
attached to the host machine.
Note: If a PeRT
3
server is known to be present on the local host machine but the software does not find
it, try restarting the server. To do this, follow the pathway Start> Control Panel> Administrative
Tools>Services and select the item LeCroy PeRT
3
Server. Then click on Restart.
If no local server is found, the system searches for available servers on the network, and
suggests connecting to the first server it finds. The user may accept that suggestion or
reject it and choose another server from the drop‐down list. Once a server has been
selected, the name and address of that server appears in the Hardware field of the PeRT
3
Selection panel, and the software connects to that server and populates the script/
pattern/results lists in the Main Library window from that server’s database, then verifies
the hardware. If the hardware exists, the Hardware field of the PeRT
3
Selection panel are
filled in and, if necessary, the hardware is re‐synchronized (this may take a minute or two
and is indicated by a message in the output window accompanied by a progress bar on
the main ribbon and the "flying Eagle" cursor).