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ATTO Technology Inc. iPBridge Installation and Operation Manual
7 Interface options
Alternative methods to the ATTO ExpressNAV interface may be used to manage the iPBridge. ATTO
ExpressNAV is the recommended interface.

Using ExpressNAV

Each page in the ATTO ExpressNAV interface
provides information and/or configuration parameters
based on a specific topic.
ATTO ExpressNAV is the recommended
management tool for the iPBridge. It is a web-based
graphical user interface (GUI) that allows you to
manage the iPBridge by clicking choices and
commands in traditional GUI fashion or by entering
CLI commands directly, as you would in a terminal
emulation session, on the
Advanced CLI
page.
Opening an ExpressNAV session
1 Point your browser at the IP address of the
iPBridge. Refer to Discovering the IP address.
on page 5.
2The ExpressNAV home page is displayed.
Click Enter.
3 Enter the user name and password values.
Note
The default values are user name:
root
and
password:
Password
. The user name is case
insensitive and password is case sensitive. It
is best practice to change user names and
passwords. Refer to
Modify passwords
on
page 13.
The Status page appears.
Each page can be reached through the menu at the
side of each page. An image on each page’s
header shows each port in the product faceplate.
Each port is clickable and takes you to the
appropriate page.
If you have completed configuration operations at
any time and have clicked
Submit
on the page
you are viewing, go to the
Restart
page and
restart the iPBridge to save the settings.
If you have not completed configuration changes,
go on to the next command.
Optimizing ExpressNAV in Internet
Explorer
1 Go to the browser toolbar and select Tools
2Select Internet Options
3 Select the Security tab
4 Select the Custom Level button.
5 On the menu presented, go to the Microsoft
VM, Java permissions and make sure
Disable Java is not selected.
6 Go to the Miscellaneous topic and select
METAREFRESH.

Using the serial port

1 Connect a cable from iPBridge RS-232 serial
port to the serial (COM) port on a personal
computer.
2 Turn on the iPBridge.
3 Start a terminal emulation program on the
personal computer, and use it to connect to the
iPBridge. For example, if you are using
HyperTerminal on a computer running a
Windows operating system,
a. Type iPBridge in the New Connection
dialog box.
b. Click OK.
c. In the Connect To dialog box, for the
Connect using field select the COM
port number to which your serial cable
is connected.
d. Click OK.
e. In the COM Properties dialog box
select the following values:
• Bits per second: 115200
• Data Bits: 8
• Parity: None
• Stop Bits: 1
• Flow Control: None
• Terminal type: ASCII
• Echo: off
f. Click OK.
4 After you connect to the iPBridge, start-up
messages are displayed. These messages are