4.7.1 Acquiring the System IP Address

To use the Web monitor, you must connect to it over your network. You will need to acquire the RamSan-500’s IP address – which can be accomplished from the front panel display.

Press the Menu button to display the “Main Menu”. Use the and buttons to find the “System Info” option. Tap the Select key.

Main Menu

￿ System Info

Use the button to scroll until you see the “IP Address” line and the line below it. Take note of the IP address.

IP Address:

192.168.111.58

4.7.2 Accessing the Web Monitor

Accessing the Web monitor can be done from any Web browser that supports Sun Java v1.5 or later. You can download the Sun Java plug- in for Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows and for both Linux and Windows versions of Firefox. To get the latest Sun Java plug-in, go to http://www.sunjava.com/.

The following figures refer to “myRamSan” instead of an IP address, since “myRamSan” was assigned the IP address 192.168.111.58 from our name server. You do not need to use a name server to access the Web monitor. You can instead type the IP address in directly.

Figure 6 – Web Monitor Login Screen

Using a standard Web browser with the Sun Java plugin, set the address to your IP address. It will take a moment to download the Java program (10 or 15 seconds) and then the window displayed in Figure 6 will appear. The RamSan ships with the admin user defined

User: admin

Password: password

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