National Instruments FieldPoint FP-1000 - Chapter 4 Installing and Using the Fieldpoint Software; Fieldpoint Software Overview; Fieldpoint Explorer Configuration Utility

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Chapter
4
Installing and Using the
FieldPoint Software
This chapter describes how to use the FieldPoint hardware with various
servers and software packages.
FieldPoint Software Overview
Your FieldPoint software includes a full-functioned configuration
utility as well as server and driver software for easy integration into
application software packages. These software components manage the
low-level communications and hardware details, simplifying
programmatic access of I/O channels. Version 1.6 of the FieldPoint
software runs on Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0 and
later, and includes the following components:
• FieldPoint Explorer Configuration Utility
• Lookout Driver Class
• BridgeVIEW Server
• LabVIEW VIs
• LabWindows/CVI Functions
• OPC Server
You can download future versions of FieldPoint software from the
National Instruments FTP site at
ftp.natinst.com/support/
fieldpoint/Server
.
FieldPoint Explorer Configuration Utility
FieldPoint Explorer is the configuration utility for FieldPoint hardware
and software. You can use FieldPoint Explorer to accomplish the
following tasks:
• Configure the characteristics and hardware of a FieldPoint device
network
• Configure the tag name space and I/O items of the FieldPoint
servers
• Write and read I/O values to and from the FieldPoint hardware