VISA Resource Name includes serial number

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

I am trying to figure out how to communicate with the Agilent/Keysight N9020A Signal Analyzer over Ethernet.

In NI-MAX, the VISA Resource Name for the instrument shows up as 

TCPIP0::A-N9020A-90040::instr0::INSTR

The 90040 is part of the serial number for a particular instrument.

We will have more than one test station.

I would rather communicate with the instrument by IP address so that it does not matter what the serial number of a particular instrument is.

Is that possible?

The previous engineer had gone into NI-MAX and created aliases. This fine except that our contract manufacturer is overseas.

[nyc_(is_out_of_here) · Accepted solution]

TCPIP0::192.168.0.143::inst0::INSTR  works as well