[Ques] VISA Aliases and GPIB Cards...

[ChristopherPovey]

I just want to double check something. I have a PXI Chassis with two GPIB cards fitted. I have a LabVIEW VI which uses nisysconf.lvlib:Find.vi to locate all the GPIB modules and their slot numbers. I then want to give each GPIB Card itself a VISA alias. For example if the scan returned GPIB0::INTFC and GPIB1::INTFC and they are in slots 2 and 3. I want to use nisysconf.lvlib:Rename Alias.vi to set the names to, say slot 2 = "Oven Translator" and slot 3 = "Table Translator".

Then in the rest of the code I use VISA to open "Oven Translator" and "Table Translator" and the property node to set Primary/Secondary addresses. System Controller and so on... Read/Write functions to talk to the devices.

Is that possible?

[RTSLVU]

I have never used any of the System Configuration vi's but...

Since what you need to do is change the VISA Alias for the instruments you find. 

I think in System Configuration--> Hardware--> Rename Alias VI is what you are looking for.