cRIO Device Alias

[viScience]

Is it possible to derive the IP address from a cRIO alias name that appears in a cRIO device ring control?

Thanks.

[dwisti]

Are you trying to determine the IP address from a remote machine?

Real-Time Target System Replication has a vi that can find all RT targets.  Its called "Find All Targets.vi".

[viScience]

That did the trick, thanks.  I am working on a Configuration Management Utility that will allow me to manage a distributed system with 9 cRIO targets.  I want to have

a ring control to allow the user to select any cRIO on the network.  I need to obtain the IP address so that config files can be ftp'd to the target of choice.

[viScience]

One thing I did notice about the Find All Targets vi is that the 'Status' Field does not seem to be working.  It always contains

the Model Name instead of the actual status.

[Christian_L]

Mike,

Thanks for reporting this. We have added it to be fixed in the System Replication tools (#127669). In the mean time the RT Ping Controllers VI (Real-Time palette) does return the status information and can be used to get a list of current RT targets on the network. It does not return quite as much other information as the Find All Targets VI.