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
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To establish communication with a serial instrument connected to your
E5810, you will need to add this instrument manually in Connection
Expert. (Connection Expert cannot auto-discover serial devices.) In the
main Connection Expert window, click
Add Instrument
. In the
Add
Instrument
dialog box, select the remote serial interface that you just
added and click
OK
. In the
RS-232 Serial Instrument
dialog box, leave
Auto-identify this instrument
checked if your instrument responds to the
*IDN?
query, and click
OK
. The instrument will appear in the Connection
Expert’s explorer view, and if it responds to the
*IDN?
query, its
identification information will appear in the properties pane.