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Programming Commands
SYSTem Subsystem
SYSTem Subsystem
The commands in this subsystem have the following command hierarchy:
:SYSTem
:ERRor?
:HELP
:HEADers?
:PRESet
:VERSion?
ERRor
Queries an error from the error queue.
Syntax
:SYSTem:ERRor?
Attribute
Summary
Preset
State: none
*RST State: none
SCPI Compliance: standard
Query Only
Description
The Agilent 86120B has a 30 entry error queue. The queue is a first-in, first-
out buffer. Repeatedly sending the query :SYSTEM:ERROR? returns the error
numbers and descriptions in the order in which they occur until the queue is
empty. Any further queries returns
+0, “No errors”
until another error
occurs.
For a complete list of error messages, refer to “Error Messages” on page 8-9.
Query Response
<value>, <string>
<value>
is an integer.
<string>
is the text of the error message. The following
is an example of a response:
-113,”Undefined header”