Hello,
So I work in a university research lab as a graduate student researcher. We have a number of computers running different setups (each with multiple instrumentations hooked up to them) in our lab, but ultimately we want to have everything be available from a central, opensuse leap linux server. To a fair degree, one of my colleagues has done his best to make this happen and at times it does work.
The biggest issue we have is that the networking easily becomes flustered. As I have been told by him, NI VISA and a few of its related items do not work with OpenSUSE's primary (and our otherwise preferred) network manager, Wicked, which forces us to need to use and configure NetworkManager manually every time there are changes to the system that affect the network (which is a fair bit as of late when, per example, we need to restart the server or are otherwise making any changes to an internal network on a router). From what I understand, Wicked allows a user to set default rules and then constantly checks that the network is adhering to them or else will modify the network to do so. NI VISA apparently does not hear or update itself to these modifications, which is the reasoning for the incompatibility.
To be frank, as a small research group at a university, we would not normally have someone so adept with networking to help us at all to do this (we more or less lucked out), but that person is not always going to be around and reconfiguring around it time and again wastes our time from performing our normal duties. Does NI have any known solutions to make its software compatible with Wicked, or can anyone point me to resources that would help improve this compatibility between these?