See GPIB Devices below.
The following procedure is the USB equivalent of the PNA "GPIB Pass-Through" feature. This allows you to send SCPI commands from a remote PC to a USB device (such as a USB power sensor) that is connected to the PNA.
The PC must have the Keysight I/O Libraries installed.
On the PNA, press System, then [Configure], then [SICL/GPIB], then SICL Enabled.
On your PC, start Keysight Connection Expert (ACE) which is the wizard for Keysight I/O Libraries.
In the ACE dialog, click Add Interface.
Click Remote USB then click Add.
In the Remote USB Interface dialog (shown above), do EITHER of the following:
Select Hostname, then enter the Full Computer Name of the PNA.
Select IP address, then enter the IP address of the PNA.
On the PC, the new USB interface in ACE should show the USBTMC-compliant devices (such as the U2000-Series sensors) that are connected to that PNA. In the above dialog, the VISA interface ID is USB2. Therefore, a VISA program on the PC could send commands to the sensor that is connected to the PNA at the VISA resource string beginning with USB2::<interface>.
The above image shows a portion of the ACE dialog after adding the remote USB interface.
Right-click on the device you want to communicate with (U2000A in this example) then click Send Commands To This Instrument.
Type a command, then click Send Command or Read Response.
Access the PNA GPIB System Controller port from your PC as though it were a local GPIB card on your PC.
This allows you to send SCPI commands from a remote PC to a GPIB device such as a Power Meter, that is connected to the PNA.
The PC must have the Keysight I/O Libraries installed.
On the PNA, press System, then [Configure], then [SICL/GPIB], then SICL Enabled.
On your PC, start Keysight Connection Expert (ACE) which is the wizard for Keysight I/O Libraries.
In the ACE dialog, click Add Interface.
Click Remote GPIB then click Add.
In the above dialog, use the default settings EXCEPT where specified here:
Interface name on remote host - Enter ‘gpib0’
Do EITHER of the following:
Select Hostname, then enter the Full Computer Name of the PNA.
Select IP address, then enter the IP address of the PNA.
Click OK
Then access the PNA GPIB System Controller port using the SICL interface ID shown in the dialog (gpib1 in above dialog image).
For example, with a power meter at address 13, you would open a VISA session on the PC to GPIB1::13::INSTR and then send commands to it while the device is connected to the PNA Controller port.
Important: Close any open VISA session handles to that interface before the PNA controls device.
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