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M3i.48xx / M3i.48xx-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 in-
struments 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 Servers some-
where 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 Spec-
trum 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 exe-
cuted the remotely found Spectrum products are listed under the node Re-
mote 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 al-
lows 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 re-
mote 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.
Wake On LAN of digitizerNETBOX/generatorNETBOX
Cached digitizerNETBOX/generatorNETBOX products that are currently in standby mode can
be waked 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 send 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:
Netbox Monitor
The Netbox Monitor permanently monitors whether the digitizerNETBOX/generatorNETBOX is still available through LAN. This tool is helpful
if the digitizerNETBOX is located somewhere in the company LAN or located remotely or directly mounted inside another device. Starting
the Netbox Monitor can be done in two different ways:
• Starting manually from the Spectrum Control Center using the context menu as shown above
• Starting from command line. The Netbox Monitor program is automatically installed together with the Spectrum Control Center and is
located in the selected install folder. Using the command line tool one can place a simple script into the autostart folder to have the Net-
box Monitor running automatically after system boot. The command line tool needs the IP address of the
digitizerNETBOX/generatorNETBOX to monitor:
The Netbox Monitor is shown as a small window with the type of digitizerNETBOX/generatorNETBOX in the title and the IP ad-
dress under which it is accessed in the window itself. The Netbox Monitor runs completely independent of any other software and
can be used in parallel to any application software. The background of the IP address is used to display the current status of the
device. Pressing the Escape key or alt + F4 (Windows) terminates the Netbox Monitor permanently.
spcm_dwSetParam_i64 (NULL, SPC_NETBOX_WAKEONLAN, 0x00032d2048ec);
NetboxMonitor 192.168.169.22
