USER GUIDEARENA/ RANGER
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| SITE MANAGEMENT |
Local Site Support | ARENA supports the connection to up to 4 local sites. | |
Remote Site Support | ARENA supports remote sites, which are connected through iLON 10 or through | |
| another remote ARENA. That ARENA is called Supervisor ARENA. | |
| Ranger supports remote sites, which are connected through iLON 10 only. | |
iLON 10 Sites via LAN | ARENA supports remote sites, which are connected through iLON 10. Only one | |
| ARENA can be connected at the same time to one iLON 10. | |
| If a connection between an ARENA and an iLON is established, a second ARENA | |
| cannot connect to the iLON 10. This is indicated by a message. | |
* | Connection is only possible if an incoming connection is defined beforehand | |
ARENA / ARENA via Modem1 | ||
| manually in Windows. | |
| Example: | |
| ARENA A | |
| On ARENA A, configure a remote ARENA B. On ARENA B do nothing. | |
| Expectation is that the user does not need to configure on Arena B explicitly an | |
| incoming connection. | |
Connection Types | Arena can establish a remote connection either via modem dialing or LAN | |
| connection. ARENA differentiates between these two connection types. Depending | |
| on the infrastructure, ARENA supports opened connections in parallel. | |
| • | Modem connection |
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| After ARENA restart, ARENA will not automatically establish a connection to a |
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| remote site. |
| • | LAN connection |
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| After ARENA restart, ARENA will automatically establish a connection to all |
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| reachable remote sites |
CAUTION
Two ARENAs are only allowed to be connected via one connection type, LAN or modem. That is, it is not allowed to connect two ARENAs to each other in multiple ways, for example, via LAN and modem.
ARENA 1
LAN
Modem
ARENA 2
LAN
ARENA 3
Connect Sites You can manually connect to a site. The manual connection can be established via
Disconnect Sites You can manually disconnect ARENA from a local or remote site and disconnect all local or remote connections.
Automatic Disconnection of Modem Sites
ARENA supports an automatic disconnect mechanism for sites connect via modem:
After a definable time, ARENA pops up a dialog that asks you if you want to remain connected. You can decide whether to “remain connected for another X minutes” or to disconnect. X is the predefined connection time, which is changeable in the popup dialog. If you do not react for a defined reaction time (e.g. 60 s), the
*Not supported in ARENA 2.0
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