Overview

Tasks from start to finish, step by step in the console, with the same steps on the command line where they differ. Each page assumes the one before it only where it says so.

Task

Page

Add an instrument to an installed bench, start it and check it answers

Set up a bench

Install modules, run several versions side by side, update, remove

Install and update modules

Check a module against the real instrument

Field-test a device

Configure and run a measurement across one or several benches, and read its results

Run an experiment

Drive a bench from your own computer, or several benches from one console

Work from another machine

Keep the devices running with nobody logged in

Keep a bench up without a window

Move a bench to a newer release of PLESTY Bench

Upgrade a bench

Tell the maintainers what went wrong, with the bench’s own report

Report an issue

Remove the application, and as much of the bench’s data as you choose; move a bench to another PC

Uninstall a bench

What every button and field does is in GUI; every command is in CLI.