Agilent Technologies 5741A, 5752A, 5744A, 5743A LAN Communication, Ethernet Connection Monitoring

4 Operating the Power Supply Remotely

5You can now use Interactive IO within the Connection Expert to communicate with your instrument, or you can program your instrument using the various programming environments. You can also use the Web browser on your computer to communicate with the instrument as described under “Using the Web Server”.

LAN Communication

The Agilent IO Libraries Suite along with instrument drivers for specific programming environments can be used to communicate with your power supply. Your can also communicate with your power supply using its built-in Web server, the Telnet utility, or sockets. These latter methods are a convenient way to communicate with the power supply without using I/O libraries or drivers.

	Ethernet Connection Monitoring
	Agilent N5700 power supplies that have the LXI label on the front
	panel provide Ethernet connection monitoring. With Ethernet
	connection monitoring, the instrument’s LAN port is continually
	monitored, and automatically reconfigured when the instrument is
	unplugged for a minimum of 20 seconds and then reconnected to a
	network. The front panel LAN indicator will come on when the LAN
	port is connected and configured.
	Using the Web Server
	Your power supply has a built-in Web server that lets you control it
	directly from an internet browser on your computer. With the Web
	server, you can control and configure all of the front panel functions
	as well as additional functions such as triggering and the LAN
	parameters, which are not available from the front panel.
	The built-in Web server only operates over the LAN interface. It requires Internet
NOTE
	Explorer 5+ or Netscape 6.2+. You also need the Java (Sun) plug-in. This is
	included in the Java Runtime Environment. Refer to Sun Microsystem’s website.

The Web server is enabled when shipped. To launch the Web server:

1Open the internet browser on your computer.

2In the Tools menu, under Internet Options, select Connections, then LAN Settings, and make sure that the Bypass proxy server for local addresses box is checked.

3Enter the instrument’s hostname into the browser’s Address field to launch the Web server. The following home page will appear.

4Click on the Browser Web Control button in the navigation bar on the left to begin controlling your instrument.

5For additional help about any of the pages, click on the Help with this Page button.

If desired, you can control access to the Web server using password protection. As shipped from the factory, no password is set. To set a password, refer to the section “Configuring the LAN Parameters”.

52 Series N5700 User’s Guide