04-11-2008 09:19 AM
04-14-2008 07:15 AM
Hi
Did you follow the instructions here to configure your instrument? If so, where did you get an error? Or which part did not work as expected?
Regards
04-14-2008 08:37 AM
Hi Beejal,
I followed the knowledgebase instructions for adding a LAN instrument as suggested but this resulted in the same error when performing a "validate" from the TCP/IP settings tab in MAX on the 5242 resource.
Note: in my system I have a total of 6 VISA TCP/IP Resources as shown in MAX explorer. Five of the resources are identified with no problem only the 5242 PNA has a black on yellow exclamation mark. It is when I perform a validate on this resource I get the error message pop-up:
Could not open a VISA session to "TCPIP0::192.168.0.202::inst0::INSTR"
VISA error code 0xBFFF0012
Invalid resource reference specified. Parsing error.
Hope that gives you more to work on.
Thanks.
04-14-2008 09:03 AM
04-14-2008 12:06 PM
Hi,
After re-visiting the Agilent 5242 instrument help I came across this gem of information: the LAN is configured as a remote GPIB interface, i.e. the PNA LAN is presented as a virtual GPIB interface. The penny finally dropped when I went back to MAX and went through the process of creating a new VISA TCP/IP resource and selecting manual entry of LAN instrument. On the "next" step the hint jumped out at me in the form of: "the LAN device name is often "inst0" or "gpib0,1" ". The bottom line was due to using "inst0" as the LAN device name but because the PNA LAN is a virtual GPIB interface I should have been using "gpib0,16", the address of the real GPIB interface on the PNA.
Now all is well, thanks for the sublimimal help.