Find Hardware (VI)
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Find Hardware (VI)
Installed With: NI System ConfigurationReturns a list of hardware in a specified system using the system's session refnum.
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Filter Mode specifies an enumerated list of filter modes. Filter Mode is ignored if Filter in is not wired.
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Session in specifies the system being initialized. |
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Filter in specifies a user-defined refnum of system filter instance. The filter is used to limit the results to hardware matching specific properties. The default is no filter. Use the Create Filter VI and Filter Property Node to configure a new filter. |
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Experts specifies a case-insensitive comma-separated string specifying which experts to query. If Experts is unwired or blank, this VI queries all supported experts. The list of supported experts for a given system is returned from the Get System Experts VI.
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error in (no error) describes error conditions that occur before this node runs. This input provides standard error in functionality. |
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Remote Timeout specifies the time in milliseconds that this VI waits before it times out. The default amount of time that the VI waits for a response on the network before timing out is 5 minutes. In some cases, the operation may take longer to complete. This timeout is for remote systems only. |
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Session out returns the refnum for the system. |
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Filter out returns the user-defined refnum for the system filter instance. |
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Resources out returns an array of references to hardware in the system. Call the Close (Hardware) VI on each reference when you no longer need it.
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error out returns error information. This output provides standard error out functionality. |