Validating Hardware

You can validate the current hardware listed in the LO Connection Configuration Tree against the hardware listed in NI-MAX to

• Load the default configuration on launch
• Load the WCU configuration
• Click Validate
• Click Run

During validation, the hardware that is listed in the LO connection Configuration Tree that is not available in NI-MAX will show an orange question mark. A pop-up window with an option of either ignoring or deleting the invalid hardware is provided as show in the the following image.

Click Delete to remove the invalid hardware from LO connection configuration.

The validation procedure will also validate the location of your hardware in the system. If the location is changed, you will get a pop-up message to update the chassis and slot location.