Remote Front Panel Operation; Remote Front Panel; Information And Equipment Required For The Configuration Process - Agilent Technologies 8614 B Series User Manual

Remote Front Panel Operation

Remote Front Panel

Remote Front Panel
The Remote Front Panel capability provides a means to allow the front panel of the OSA to be
operated remotely from a PC with an X Windowing emulator or a UNIX workstation with X Win-
dows.
With the exception for update time, which is limited by the speed of the underlying network,
there should be no visible difference between what would be displayed on the OSA locally and
the remote display.

Information and Equipment Required for the Configuration Process

1 Before beginning the OSA network configuration process, obtain the following required
information from your Information Technology (IT) department.
In the OSA network configuration process, an IP address and the associated hostname need to be
assigned to the OSA and added to the DNS utilized by your PC or UNIX workstation. Gateway and
Net Mask information will also need to be specified in order for the OSA to communicate with the
LAN.
The new Internet Protocol (IP) address is used to uniquely identify the network address of the OSA.
An IP address is a set of four decimal numbers, separated by periods, like 192.170.128.210.
The Hostname associated with the IP address or the OSA.
Net Mask (Subnetwork Mask)# is used to let the Internet Protocol separate the network ID from
the full IP address and thus determine whether the source and destination IP address are on the
same network.
Gateway address is used to communicate with devices on a different physical network. The gate-
way address is the address of a routing device that connects your OSA's LAN with other LANs. In
some cases, this may be the same address as the IP address of the OSA client.
Local Domain Name is used to identify the name of the unique internet address stating the loca-
tion and company name.
Domain Name System (DNS) Server IP Address is used to uniquely identify the location of a par-
ticular server. An IP address is a set of four decimal numbers, separated by periods, like
192.170.130.215.
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