NI PXI-8250

The NI PXI-8250 System Monitor Module monitors the health of the PXI chassis and reports the status through a set of LEDs on the front panel of the module and provides the ability to programmatically monitor each parameter. The NI PXI-8250 can be used with the NI PXI-1042, NI PXI-1042Q, or NI PXI-1045 chassis to detect and report chassis voltage rail problems, abnormal chassis intake temperature, or chassis power shuttle fan failure. The NI PXI-8250 also includes a relay that will toggle when any of the parameters fall outside of chassis operating specification. These features can be used to monitor the health of the chassis, and easily identify system failure. The PXI-8250 comes with NI System Monitor software that includes the driver for the module and an application programming interface (API) to allow for programmatic access to the information reported by the module. There is also a set of six user LEDs on the front panel of the PXI-8250 designed for custom alert configurations. This feature is not available with NI System Monitor 1.1, and may be added in future releases of NI System Monitor. Refer to the NI System Monitor help for more information. NI System Monitor also allows you to programmatically monitor PXI controller health and usage including, CPU temperature, processor core usage, and memory usage. NI System Monitor also allows you to programmatically monitor chassis and controller information of PXI Express systems (PXI Express systems do not require a hardware module). NI System Monitor may be downloaded free of charge and can be found on the resources tab of this page.

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