Finding Address of Ethernet Controlled (VXI) Power Supply

[dillon]

I have a PXI system, and a TTI CPX400 power supply connected via Ethernet. In order to initialize and control these power supplies with the premade VIs, I need to supply a resource name in the form of: TCPIP0::<IP>::9221::SOCKET. The concern I have is that each power supply has a different IP address, and in order to determine it, I need to connect the supply to a computer and run an LXI Discovery tool (http://tti-test.com/go/psx/psx-downloads/lxi-discovery_tool.zip), which is a windows, GUI based tool. I would like to know if anyone has a solution for identifying such a device and finding its address in some way that can be implemented from within a labview program, so that if a power supply is replaced, communication can be established without having to manually run the discovery tool and then enter that address into my configuration file. Also, the power supplies have unique host names, so I can't just look up the address that way.

Thanks for any suggestions.

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

set a static IP

[crossrulz]

By far the easiest is to just set a static IP address for each of your supplies.  It is just let setting up a GPIB address.  Most supplies have menus on the front panel so that you can set them to have a static address.  I do this for all of my LAN instruments.