Chapter 2
Setup
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4.
After you install the NI-VXI software, run MAX. In MAX, right-click
on your VXI system and choose
Run VXI Resource Manager
. You
must run Resman every time the chassis power is cycled so that your
application can access devices in the VXI/VME chassis. You can also
use MAX to configure Resman to run automatically at every computer
startup.
5.
After you run Resman, you are ready to use MAX to interactively
configure the National Instruments hardware in your system. Use the
right-click help for information about the various configuration
options.
Verifying Your System Configuration
After you finish configuring the system through MAX, verify the system
configuration through one of the interactive control utilities such as
VISAIC. (Select
Tools»NI-VISA»VISA Interactive Control
.)
For more details about the utilities in NI-VXI, refer to Chapter 3,
