Health Monitoring of USRP

[rockstar20000]

For the the chassis/system, by using system configuration we can perform self test, monitor temperature, fan speed and voltage etc.
is there any similar way to carry out the health monitoring of USRP?

[ni_hj]

Hi  RJK2810,

I do not think there is such tool for USRP. Compare to the NI PXI chassis that are high end expensive instrument, USRP are mostly cheap and even uncalibrated devices, compare to NI PXI. But some USRP models such as X410 and X310 has sensor API that you can utilize to read temperature and fan speed for example. Check your USRP manual and technical specification. Otherwise you may use your USRP GPIO to connect and read sensor data. Or put microcontroller and sensor inside USRP to read them.

[ni_hj]

Hi,

It seems some USRP models such as E3XX and N3XX series has "Built-in Self-Test" called BiST, that can use to verify hardware and return fan speed, temperature, GPSDO, and etc. Check if your USRP model has this capability.

[rockstar20000]

Yes, I am using Ettus USRP X410 with LabVIEW, and it does have Self Test mechanism, GPSDO, but the thing is that using NI-USRP drivers, I can only do self test, and using property node, I can check only some properties.

(NI System Configuration API has two different property nodes like software node and hardware node from which we can access all the necessary details.)

[ni_hj]

you could check:

https://files.ettus.com/manual/page_usrp_x4xx.html