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M2i.30xx / M2i.30xx-exp Manual
Card Control Center
Software
Discovery of Remote Cards and digitizerNETBOX/generatorNETBOX products
The Discovery function helps you to find and identify the Spectrum LXI
instruments like digitizerNETBOX/generatorNETBOX available to
your computer on the network. The Discovery function will also locate
Spectrum card products handled by an installed Spectrum Remote
Server somewhere on the network. The function is not needed if you
only have locally installed cards.
Please note that only remote products are found that are currently not
used by another program. Therefore in a bigger network the number
of Spectrum products found may vary depending on the current usage
of the products.
Execute the Discovery function by pressing the „Discovery“ button.
There is no progress window shown. After the discovery function has
been executed the remotely found Spectrum products are listed under
the node Remote as separate card level products. Inhere you find all
hardware information as shown in the next topic and also the needed
VISA resource string to access the remote card.
Please note that these information is also stored on your system and
allows Spectrum software like SBench 6 to access the cards directly
once found with the Discovery function.
After closing the control center and re-opening it the previously found
remote products are shown with the prefix cached, only showing the
card type and the serial number. This is the stored information that allows other Spectrum products to access previously found cards. Using
the „Update cached cards“ button will try to re-open these cards and gather information of it. Afterwards the remote cards may disappear if
they’re in use from somewhere else or the complete information of the remote products is shown again.
Enter IP Address of digitizerNETBOX/generatorNETBOX manually
If for some reason an automatic discovery is not suitable, such as the case where the remote
device is located in a different subnet, it can also be manually acessed by its type and IP ad-
dress.
Wake On LAN of digitizerNETBOX/generatorNETBOX
Cached digitizerNETBOX/generatorNETBOX products that are currently in standby mode can
be woken up by using the „Wake remote device“ entry from the context menu.
The Control Center will broadcast a standard Wake On LAN „Magic Packet“, that is sent to the
device’s MAC address.
It is also possible to use any other Wake On LAN software to wake a digitizerNETBOX by send-
ing such a „Magic Packet“ to the MAC address, which must be then entered manually.
It is also possible to wake a digitizerNETBOX/generatorNETBOX from your own application
software by using the SPC_NETBOX_WAKEONLAN register. To wake a
digitizerNETBOX/generatorNETBOX with the MAC address „00:03:2d:20:48“, the following
command can be issued:
spcm_dwSetParam_i64 (NULL, SPC_NETBOX_WAKEONLAN, 0x00032d2048ec);
