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PC's MAX unabel to detect PXI connected over LAN/Ethernet
Hello NI Community,
I am quite new to both NI, PXI and everything in between, so I am sorry if I do not include the necessary information while on the other hand include too many excessive details. If so, let me know and I will try my best assisting with the requested information. And I am sorry if this question really is a no-brainer.
I am currently doing a project where we plan on outputting analogue signals from the NI SCB-68A which is connected to the NI PXIe-6363 Multifunctional DAQ Device inside a NI PXIe-1082 chassis. A NI PXIe-8820 Embedded Controller (running on Windows 7 Professional SP1) is also installed in the chassis and armed with an external monitor and keyboard I am able to send the desired signal from the SCB-68A (using both the Test Panel in the 8820’s MAX 15.0.0 and from a LabVIEW VI run on the 8820). However, the most desirable would of course be to control these PXI devices from my laptop (a HP ProBook 430 G3 running on 64-bit Windows 10 Education), and I have therefore connected the HP with the PXIe-8820 using an Ethernet cable. The IP addresses have been manually set (HP IP: 192.168.1.1, PXIe-8820 IP: 192.168.1.2) and I am able to both ping and share files between the two computers. Therefore, it seems strange that MAX (on the HP) neither detects the chassis (PXIe-1082), the embedded controller (PXIe-8820) nor the peripheral module (PXIe-6363).
This article, https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z0000004B0jSAE&l=en, first purports that there might be problems with the compatibility between the installed drivers and the instruments. However, I have checked that both the chassis and the controller supports the NI PXI Platform Services (20.7.0), NI-DAQmx (20.7.0) and NI-VISA (20.0.0), and these three drivers should be all that I need, right? See the screenshot for the complete list of installed drivers.
The article also suggests doing physical troubleshooting, but since the systems (HP and PXIe-8820, and PXIe-8820 and PXIe-6363) works fine separately, I doubt that this is where the problem is.
I have also tried resetting the MAX database, without any results (as far as I could see, nothing really changed in MAX – but then again, I had not added so much for it to reset). See the next screenshot for an outlook of the HP's MAX.
This article, https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z000000P7OaSAK&l=en, on the other hand, says I should be able to see the DAQ device in the HP’s Device Manager. The only thing I notice, is the computer in the PXIe-8820 showing up as “NANO-NI: nano:” (I am unsure if this is the factory given name, or just something given to it by someone using the instrument before me) under the category “Software devices”. Should I have seen the PXIe-6363 here?
I have also tried manually adding the PXIe-8820 in MAX (since it does not show up automatically) by using My system > Devices and Interfaces > Network Devices > Add Network Device > VISA TCP/IP Resource… (trying the “Find Network DAQ Device” just returns the error “Unable to launch dialog. Please confirm the driver software is installed correctly and that configuration support is included.”) > Manual Entry of LAN Instrument (the “Auto-detect of LAN Instrument” cannot, for some reason, find any VXI-11 LAN/LXI instruments on the local subnet). Everything good so far, however, when typing in the PXIe-8820’s manually set IP address, 192.168.1.2, and the LAN Device Name, “inst0” (would this be the right name?), I get the VISA error code 0xBFFF0011. See the screenshot below for visual information.
In addition to trying to manually add the PXIe-8820 as a Network Device under Devices and Interfaces, I also tried adding it as a Remote System. Creating a new “Remote VISA System” > typing in the PXIe-8820’s IP address (while ticking the “Server uses default port”) > pressing “Finish”, just results in the VISA error code “0xBFFF00A7 (VI_ERROR_MACHINE_NAVAIL)” – se the screenshot below. While 1-4 should be fine (I have turned off the firewall on both the HP and the PXIe-8820, as purported in number 4), number 5 and 6 seems a bit more alien to me – if you think this is where the problem is, I shall certainly check this out further.
As I initially said, sorry if I have given you to much excessive information and too little of real value! I am, however, grateful for whatever reply and help I should get.
Thank you in advance,
Erik
