Agilent Technologies E5810A manual Verifying Communication From Your PC

Installing the E5810

Installing and Configuring the Agilent IO Libraries Suite

Verifying Communication From Your PC

This section gives guidelines to communicate with and to program connected GPIB and RS-232 instruments from your PC via the E5810, including:

Using Interactive IO for Communication

￿Using Supported Programming Languages

NOTE

You can also communicate with (but not program) installed GPIB and/or RS-232 instruments using the E5810 Web access, whether or not you have installed and configured the Agilent IO Libraries Suite. See Chapter 3 - Using E5810 Web Access for details.

Using Interactive IO for Communication

After the E5810 has been configured and you have connected your GPIB and/or RS-232 instruments to the E5810, you can verify communication between your PC and the instruments by using the Interactive IO utility or by using VISA or SICL commands with supported programming languages. This section shows one way to use Interactive IO to verify instrument communication.

NOTE

Once your remote interface(s) and instrument(s) have been configured in Connection Expert, if you can see them in the Connection Expert explorer and see their IDN string information in the detail pane then communication has been verified. Interactive IO allows you to manually verify communication and send specific commands to your instrument.

Example: Using Interactive IO

To use Interactive IO to send a *IDN? (identification) query to an instrument:

1Select the instrument by clicking its icon in the Connection Expert explorer view.

2Right-click the instrument and click Send Commands To This Instrument to display the Interactive IO window. For information on Interactive IO, including a list of common commands and their meanings, click Help Help Topics.

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