Installation & Network Setup

Note

You must have Administrator priveleges to do the following installations.

Warning

Most of the installation can be done on either Linux or Windows. However, the SNMP drivers we use only support Windows machines. So, if you want to interact with any equipment over SNMP, you must use a Windows machine. Our sincerest apologies.

Prerequisites

We expect some familiarity with using your computer’s command prompt/ terminal utility.

Hardware Requirements

The SCTA libraries have only been tested with the following environment:

• Intel i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz
• 8GB RAM
• 64-bit OS
• Windows 7 Professional

Tips

• none

Contents

• VISA Drivers
  • Installing NI-VISA
  • Updating NI-VISA
  • Installing GPIB drivers
  • VISA Interactive Control
• SNMP Drivers
• Git Version Control
  • Installing Git
  • Cloning the SCTA Libraries
• Anaconda v.s. Python
  • Installing Anaconda
  • Anaconda Basics
  • The Easy Way: Cloning our SCTA Environment
  • The Hard Way: Creating your own SCTA Environment
  • Adding SCTA to your PYTHONPATH Environment Variable