Read Sartorius x5 through ethernet

[Loadcell]

Hi,

I'm fairly new to LabView, but I have been doing my best to learn in the past few days.  I have a Sartorius X5 (PR5610) system controller that is reading some load cells.  I purchased a PR1713 ethernet card from Sartorius and installed it, and now I would like to read the data via LabView (8.2).  Everything should be installed correctly; I can ping the console's ip in the command prompt and recieve a positive response.  I'm a little unsure of the next step.

After searching the forums a bit, I installed NI-VISA 4.2, but I do not see any additional vi's in my functions list.  Also, when I try to configure things via this page: http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/3325
I find that the instrument cannot be auto-detected and if I enter the IP manually, I do not know the correct port number!  In another thread someone mentioned that after installing VISA one should be able to find "-> functions -> communication -> System Exec.vi" and use that vi, however I do not see it at all.  I see Shared Variable, Data Socket, Local Variable... no System Exec

In addition I have downloaded modbus, but am completely clueless about what to do now that it is installed.

I have seen the Sartorius PR drivers from here: http://sine.ni.com/apps/utf8/niid_web_display.model_page?p_model_id=5583
And they look useful, but they are using a serial port.  Ideally I would like to reconfigure this to use ethernet.

   Thanks so much!

[RavensFan]

Does any software come with this device that allows you to connect over ethernet?  Does that give any clue as to its communications protocol such as Modbus over TCP/IP?  Does it have any drivers?   Perhaps it creates a virtual serial port.   Any Advanced User Guides that come with it or can be downloaded?  I googled it, but did not find much more than advertising brochures and technical specs.  You may want to contact them directly and see if they can provide you with the communications protocol.

I did find this link http://hamburg.sartorius.com/download/software/PC-Tools/index.htm which mentions a download for an OPC server.

[Loadcell]

Unfortunately the device did not come with any software, and the manual doesn't go beyond installation and setting up the IP address and subnet mask.  I will try and contact them directly, thanks for the help.