PXIe Chassis Family
User Guide
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2 PXIe Chassis Management
Capabilities
Keysight’s PXIe chassis provide extensive management capabilities to allow you
to monitor and control many aspects of the chassis operation. For example, you
can monitor the temperatures reported by the air flow temperature sensors using
the Soft Front Panel (SFP). Furthermore, you can use the SFP to set a minimum
temperature alarm threshold such that an alarm will be generated if the
temperature of any temperature sensor exceeds the threshold.
In addition to using the SFP to monitor and control the chassis, you can develop
programs to monitor and control the chassis. Keysight provides IVI
(Interchangeable Virtual Instrument, see www.ivifoundation.org) drivers for the
chassis. To support the most popular programming languages and development
environments, Keysight offers both the IVI-C and IVI.NET drivers. There are no
IVI.COM drivers. See the IVI Foundation website for a description of these drivers.
Keysight also provides a LabVIEW driver for the chassis.
Keysight recommends that you use the Soft Front Panel to learn the chassis
management capabilities. Because the programmatic capabilities largely parallel
the capabilities provided by the SFP, learning the SFP first provides a basis for
learning how the IVI.NET and IVI-C drivers interface to the chassis. In support of
this approach, each chassis management capability is first described by a
diagram showing how that chassis management capability is accessed using the
SFP.
Do not uninstall the KtMPxiChassis IVI.NET Driver 1.x.xxx,
KtMPxiChassis IVI-C Driver 1.x.xxx, KtMTrig IVI.NET Driver 1.x.xxx, or
KtMTrig IVI-C Driver 1.x.xxx files without also uninstalling the Keysight
PXIe Chassis Family driver.
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