Some client GPIB assets are missing (not detected?) from server

[!SuperB!]

I have certain GPIB connected instruments that are not showing up in Asset Manager. I can communicate to them without issue from client SW. Also they show up in NI MAX and respond queries there. What is the best way to debug why I'm not seeing these in Asset Manager?

Some of the makes of these instruments that don't show up are Chroma, Krohn-Hite.

~ Bertram

[santo_13]

Do those respond to the typical "IDN?" query?

[!SuperB!]

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@santo_13 wrote:

Do those respond to the typical "IDN?" query?

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Good question. Yes.

[JoshuaP]

First, make sure you have NI VISA and NI-488.2 installed. Then, manually run Scan for Instruments in MAX locally on the client. Finally, the *IDN? has to return a serial number for the instrument in a way that NI-VISA can parse. If the serial number doesn't show up in MAX then it won't be tracked as an asset in SystemLink because we have no way to uniquely identify the instrument at that point.

[JoshuaP · Accepted solution]

If that doesn't work here is an example on how you can manually add additional assets on the client-side by populating some JSON files in a specific directory. You can use this mechanism if you have some other process for querying the instruments.

https://github.com/joshuaprewitt/systemlink-asset-management-api

[!SuperB!]

I appreciate the feedback.

• NI-VISA is installed (version 19.0.0)
• NI-488.2 16.0 is installed (version 16.00.49152)
• Manually ran scan in MAX locally on one of the clients
• Querying the instrument with *IDN? returns "Chroma,6314A,0,02.31,16,0
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