AMX NI-3101-SIG Manage Other Devices Menu Viewing Discovered Devices, View Discovered Devices

NetLinx Security within the Web Server

If the manufacturer device does not support Dynamic Device Discovery (DDD) beaconing, you must use the Add New Device page to both create and manage those values necessary to add a dynamic physical device. This process is described in detail within the following section.

Manage Other Devices Menu - Viewing Discovered Devices

This page (FIG. 68) provides a listing with all of the dynamic devices that have been discovered in the system.

Listing of the discovered

Dynamic Devices

Properties of the discovered physical device (displayed via a mouse-over popup dialog)

FIG. 68 View Discovered Devices page

Mousing-over a listed entry presents a popup which displays all of the properties associated with the physical device. If the physical device is bound to an application device, the associated application device's “friendly name” will be displayed in the Binding column. The Module Available column indicates if a Duet module is currently available on the system for the target physical device (the results are: yes, no, or unknown).

For each physical device, a Search button is provided which initiates a search for compatible modules.

If the Module Search via the Internet option has been previously enabled (via the corresponding button within the Configure Binding Options section of the Manage Other Devices page), the search includes a query of the AMX online database for a compatible module based on the device's properties.

If the device specified a URL in its DDD beacon, the file is retrieved from the URL either over the Internet or from the physical device itself, provided the device has an inboard HTTP or FTP server.

If Module Search via Internet is NOT enabled, the search does NOT query the AMX online database nor will it pull any manufacturer specified URLs that do not match the IP Address of the physical device itself.

Modules that are retrieved from either the Internet or from the manufacturer's device are then placed into the /unbound directory and automatically overwrite any existing module of the same name.

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