Perle Systems STS, SCS manual Setting Up the Network, Using DeviceManager

Setting Up the Network

zTruePort (Virtual COM Port)—Allows a networked system to communicate with your serial device through a virtual COM or TTY port, using the Perle TruePort software.

zTCP Sockets (Raw TCP)—Allows hosts on the network to communicate with a serial device that requires raw data throughput (such as a printer or card reader) connected to the IOLAN serial port.

zTerminal—Allows a terminal device to connect to a specified host on the network through a serial port on the IOLAN.

zPrinter—Allows hosts on the network to talk to a printer using LPD connected to the IOLAN.

zSerial Tunneling—Allows IOLANs on the network to establish a virtual link between their serial ports. Typically, one IOLAN’s serial port is configured as a Tunnel Server and the other IOLAN’s serial port is configured as a Tunnel Client.

Setting Up the Network

The most important part of setting up the network is assigning an IP address to the IOLAN, whether this is a static IP address or enabling a DHCP/BOOTP-assigned IP address. You should also assign a name to the IOLAN, to make it easier to recognize. This section deals primarily with setting the IP address.

Using DeviceManager

To use the DeviceManager, you must first install it on a Windows operating system. The DeviceManager is able to automatically discover all IOLANs on your local network, even if they have not yet been assigned an IP address. If routers on the network have been setup to propagate multicasts, DeviceManager will also be able to discover IOLANs in other networks. The DeviceManager installation wizard can be found on the CD-ROM included in the IOLAN package.

1.Connect the IOLAN to the network.

2.Power on the IOLAN.

3.From the CD-ROM that was included in the IOLAN packaging, select the DeviceManager link.

4.Click on the link under Location and click Open to automatically start the DeviceManager installation.

5.Install the DeviceManager by following the installation wizard. On the last window, check the

Yes, I want to launch DeviceManager now. box and click the Finish button.

6.When you launch the DeviceManager, it will automatically scan the local network and display any IOLANs that it can find.

7.Any IOLAN that does not have an IP address will be displayed as Not Configured, with the Model and MAC Address to identify the IOLAN. Highlight the IOLAN that you want to assign an IP address to and click the Assign IP button.

8.Choose the method you want to use to assign an IP address to the IOLAN: z Type in the IP address that you want to assign to this IOLAN.

z Enable the Have the IOLAN automatically get a temporary IP address option. This will turn on DHCP/BOOTP, so the IOLAN will attempt to get its IP address from your DHCP/BOOTP server. If you don’t have a DHCP/BOOTP server, DeviceManager will temporarily assign an IP address in the range of 169.254.0.1-169.254.255.255that will be used only for the duration of the DeviceManager/IOLAN communication.

Click the Assign IP button.

9.You are now ready to configure the IOLAN. Double-click the IOLAN you just configured IP address for to open a configuration session. Type superuser (the factory default Admin user password) in the Login window and click OK.

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