Agilent Technologies Z5623A manual Disaster Recovery, Malfunctioning Command Window, Symptoms

Using the Network Analyzer to Control the Test Set

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery

This section provides recovery procedures for the following problems:

•Malfunctioning Command Window

•Malfunctioning Network Analyzer

Malfunctioning Command Window

Symptoms

Any of the following symptoms indicates a malfunctioning command window.

•No ud0: prompt is returned when the ibclr command is executed.

•An error message is returned when the ibdev command is properly executed.

•Upon turning on the network analyzer, the following message appears: “The device at ‘AT-GPIB/TNT’ cannot be stopped because a program is still accessing it.”

•When the Recovery Procedure described below is performed, the “AT-GPIB/TNT” icon observed in Step 6 has a red slash through it (indicating that the device is presently disabled). However, when Step 7 is performed, the pop-up menu has “Disable” as a menu item (indicating that the device is presently enabled!).

Recovery Procedure

Step 1. Close every application that is running.

a.If an application’s window is open, click on the X in the upper right-hand corner of the window.

b.If an application’s window has been minimized, locate its icon on the task bar at the bottom of the network analyzer screen. See Figure

3-8. Click on the icon. This will open the application’s window. Next, click on the X in the upper right-hand corner of the window to close the application.

c.When all applications are closed, the task bar will look like the one in Figure 3-9.

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