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Getting Started with Your Serial Device Server
5. Wait up to 90 seconds and observe the PWR/RDY LED for the
following output:
•
Steady yellow
—Device was automatically configured. Go to step 6.
•
Steady red
—Contact National Instruments.
•
Slow blinking pattern
—See Appendix B,
PWR/RDY RED Signaling
,
in the
NI ENET-Serial User Manual
and contact National Instruments.
•
Continues flickering rapidly
—See Chapter 3,
Ethernet Configuration
,
in the
NI ENET-Serial User Manual
to configure your device manually.
6. Follow these steps to configure the NI Serial server software:
a. Run
visaconf
, which is in the
NIvisa
subdirectory of your installation.
Click
Add Static
, which brings up the
Add New Static Resource
window. From the
Select the interface
listbox, select
NI ENET
Serial Box
.
b. Fill in the
Hostname or IP address
box in one of the following ways:
•
If the serial device server is on the same subnet, click
Browse…
. This
brings up the NI Ethernet Device Configuration window, from which
you can highlight the appropriate device. Click
Select
. The
Hostname
or IP address
box is filled automatically.
•
If DHCP configured the network parameters, type in the serial device
server hostname. (Use the default hostname listed on the baseplate
label unless you changed the hostname using NI Ethernet device
configuration.) If DHCP did not configure the network parameters,
type in the serial device server static IP address you configured using
NI Ethernet device configuration. If you get any errors, refer to
Appendix C,
Troubleshooting and Common Questions
, in the
NI
ENET-Serial User Manual
.
