Discovery of Test Equipment on the LAN

[srctest]

Does Labview provide a discovery feature to find Test Equipment on a LAN?

[Eli_S]

Hi,

LabVIEW itself does not have this functionality, however, the NI-VISA driver does have it. If you have NI-VISA installed, you can auto-detect LAN instruments in Measurements and Automation Explorer (MAX) and set them up as VISA resources. Once you do this, you can call the resouce in LabVIEW with the VISA API. In order to detect a LAN instrument in MAX, right-click Devices and Interfaces >> Create New.. and select VISA TCP/IP Resource from the list.

[srctest]

Thanks Eli,

We have the MAX as part of the Labview workstation and will look at it from that perspective.  Thanks again.