BB4-8422
Network Gateway
Proper system design is required for reliable and safe operation of distributed control systems incorporating any Control Solutions product. It is extremely important for the user and system designer to consider the effects of loss of power, loss of communications, and failure of components in the design of any monitoring or control application. This is especially important where the potential for property damage, personal injury, or loss of life may exist. By using ANY Control Solutions, Inc., product, the user has agreed to assume all risk and responsibility for proper system design as well as any consequence for improper system design.
Getting
Started
Topics you will want to visit to get started include
the following:
If you will be configuring a rather long list of
data points to be accessed via a certain protocol, we suggest you start by
getting acquainted with just a few points. Then build your long list using a
standard spread sheet program and save that as a CSV file which you may then
import. There is a CSV file reference section for each supported protocol.
Using a CSV file will be a time saver.
And if you get stuck, you an
always open a support ticket at https://ticketcsimn.com. Control
Solutions support normally responds within a couple of hours during business
hours, and sometimes even on weekends.
The initial default IPv4 address
is 10.0.0.101. On initial bootup, each device will have a unique password. The
default unique password will be given on the login screen until a successful
login has been made. It is recommended that this password should be changed to
your own password after initial login.
IMPORTANT: Make a note of the
default password for "admin" - it will only be shown once. After
initial login, the password dialog box will look similar, but without the
password listed at the top.
After the initial login, you will
have the option to set up web users through RADIUS. RADIUS users are managed on
your own RADIUS server. Adding a RADIUS server can be accomplished in the
System->Users section of the device.
Once a RADIUS server is fully
configured, users will see a checkbox below the password field, giving them the
option to use "RADIUS Authentication". Checking this box will force
the login process to use the configured RADIUS server instead of the local
users. It is important to note that there will always be at least one local
user on the system. This is a failsafe in case the device is no longer in
communication with the configured RADIUS server.
Users who are logged in via
RADIUS will not be able to configure their profile locally on the device (i.e.
passwords and user settings). Instead, the device will rely on the RADIUS
server for this purpose.
There are certain aspects of the
Web UI that are common to many different pages. Rather than repeat that
discussion many times, those common elements will be covered here.
Page Tabs
Many pages have tabs. In the
example above, Read Maps is the active tab. Additional available tabs here are
Write Maps, Walk Rules, Devices, and Config File. Click on any tab name to
navigate to that tab.
The "Show" number sets
the number of items that will be displayed on the current page. If you are
looking at Read Maps and this number is set to 10, you will see 10 maps listed
per "page" (see below).
The Search box allows you to
search for content on the current page. For example, if you are displaying a
list of objects and you want to find an object by a certain name, simply start
typing that name in the search box. The content of the page will be dynamically
updated to show only matching content.
Note that this is not a global
search of the entire system, nor of the Internet. This search applies only to
content of the current page.
Very often, there will be more
items to display than will fit on a single page. When this happens, the list is
automatically split into pages of N items each where N is the number set in the
"Show" window above. To navigate to the various pages, click on the
page number, or click Prev or Next.
Numerous map or rule editing
pages will have these buttons. Click any of the Save buttons to save the
entries you have made to the configuration database. Click Prev to move to the
next lower numbered map or rule number if not already at #1. Click Next to
advance to the next higher numbered map or rule. The "Save/Prev" and
"Save/Next" buttons do both actions with one click. Click Exit to
return to the main map or rule list page. Note that if you make changes but
leave the page without clicking Save, your changes will be discarded.
A sidebar menu will appear on the
left-hand side of every page. The sidebar menu is how you navigate among the
various pages available in the web UI. Major menu items will expand to a list
of sub-menus when clicked. Clicking sub-menu items will take you to that page.
The page you are currently on will be highlighted in the sidebar menu.
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The IoTServer is, at its core, protocol agnostic. Its internal data objects are generic in nature. These local objects may be represented in various ways that are specific to various protocols. But the content is universal and can be shared across all protocols supported by the IoTServer device. The "Data Engine" pages are where you view the present values of the objects, and specify the internal format for each object. Data objects may be natively integer, floating point, or character string. When accessed by various protocols, data type conversions are made automatically.
Protocol Status and Configuration pages are where you configure and diagnose the sharing of data between different devices having different network protocols. You may select which protocols are included in your application via the Task Manager configuration.
The System pages are where you configure and diagnose system level configuration. This is where you configure which protocols are going to be included in your application. This is where you select other optional applications if available. This is where you configure the network connection(s) and where you create user accounts.
