Can I programmatically change my USB Dev assignment?

I have a production test program that uses two USB 6501 DAQs. Currently during development they're assigned Dev1 and Dev2 in MAX and my DAQmx drivers are set up for those addresses. This test fixture, when deployed, will be connected and disconnected from the production equipment, and other USB devices may be plugged into and unplugged from the production test computer in the interim, then these will be plugged in again when it's time to test this product, and the Dev assignments are likely to be different from Dev1 and Dev2. I know I can change them in MAX, but that's not practical. I want this problem and a solution to be transparent to the people using the test program, and I'd like to reassign or change Devs programmatically. Is this possible? If so, how?

System Configuration VIs will allow you to chance MAX device names
But...
I had a similar problem with 25 identical test sets each with 6 USB power supplies. Power supplies are swapped out for calibration just about weekly. The identifiers in MAX needed to be changed each time based off of their serial number.
Years ago I attempted to modify the setting in MAX and had some success using the now deprecated “MAX Copy Configuration” VI, but opted instead to query the test set to find the power supplies and what their references names where and store the device names. Then the program could care less what MAX had for their device names. There was some extra code to figure out which supply was which (1-6) that depends on how YOU are using your devices.
We have adopted a similar methodology for other test sets for ALL our instrument device references (VISA, DAQmx, GPIB, USB, PXI, LXI). Find what’s there and use whatever name MAX has for and not try to change it.
See the
System Configuration VI
GPIB Find listeners
VISA Find Resource
niModInst
Depending on the system, I use some combination these to find my instruments.
I also use Mico Soft’s DevCon function to find devices on my test sets.
Omar

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