Appendix B Common Questions
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7. Run VISAIC to verify that you can communicate with your system
using VISA.
The new utility components are as follows:
• MAX—This utility configures, views, and initializes your system.
• Resman—You can still use this as before. However, you can perform
resource manager operations directly from MAX or configure it to run
Resman automatically at startup. Refer to What about running
Resman? later in this section.
• VISAIC—You can still use this utility as before.
• NI Spy—This utility debugs an NI-VXI or NI-VISA application.
Your setup might now include the following steps:
1. Install components and boot the system.
2. Launch MAX. Execute VXI Resource Manager responsibilities.
RunResmanbyclickingtheRun VXI Resource Manager button
in the MAX toolbar.
What happened to VXIinit?
You no longer need to run VXIinit to initialize settings on the hardware.
NI takes care of loading hardware settings in the driver, completely
eliminating the need for VXIinit.
Where do I find the information that VXIinit used to print?
You can view information about your controller from the properties pages
and the hardware configuration pages. For example, you can view logical
address and user window size in the configuration view in MAX.
What happened to T&M Explorer?
The functionality of this utility has been integrated into a powerful new
utility called MAX. This utility starts with a graphical view of the VISA
devices (GPIB, VXI, and Serial) that it finds in your system. Right-click
an individual device in the configuration tree to see its properties. You can
further configure National Instruments devices by selecting the Hardware
Configuration option. This includes National Instruments VXI-DAQ
cards, which means you can configure these devices from MAX without
running the DAQ Configuration Utility.
