Fluke 8845A doesn't respond to LAN port

[Wapperdude]

Unfortunately, I am a LabView newbie so I cannot offer an opinion on pros/cons.

I will say this, I have successfully used LabView to control Agilent N5767 lab supply for a variety of tests and data gathering and LabView works great.  But, if the drivers do not exist, I believe you can manually configure LabView to talk to the equipment -- provided the instrument uses a port type (GPIB, LAN, etc) that you can use.  I believe there are converters that will translate USB to GPIB.  That might be your best option as most instruments will do GPIB.  Something to check into before you totally abandon the ship! 

[jjp377]

One clarification, the models 8845/8846 ethernet interface is not VXI-11 compliant (does not comply with the standard) and that is why is doen't work in MAX.

The LabVIEW driver is written using VISA and VISA supports interfaces (GPIB, USB (TMC), Serial, and Ethernt (VXI-11)) if they comply with standards and the instrument is configured correctly in MAX.