ATOP Technologies SW5001-WGN1 Wireless Serial Server User Manual Manual

ATOP Technologies, INC. Wireless Serial Server Manual

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Atop ABLELink® Wireless Serial Server SW5001 User Manual Version 1.0 Updated on 2006/06/06 Tel: 886-3-5508137 Fax: 886-3-5508131 www.atop.com.tw
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 1 / 50 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT The information contained in this document is the property of Atop Technologies, Inc. and is supplied for the sole purpose of the operation and maintenance of products of Atop Technologies, Inc. No part of this publication is to be used for any other purposes, and it is not to be reproduced, copied, disclosed, transmitted, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any human or computer language, in any form, by any means, in whole or in part, without the prior express written consent of Atop Technologies, Inc. Published by Atop Technologies, Inc. 2F, No. 146, Sec. 1, Tung-Hsing Rd. Jubei City, Hsinchu 302 Taiwan, R.O.C. Tel: 886-3-5508137 Fax: 886-3-5508131 www.atop.com.tw Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. All other product names referenced herein are registered trademarks of their respective companies.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 2 / 50 FCC WARNING Class B for Wireless Serial Server (Model: SW5001) This SW5001 has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one of the following measures:  Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.  Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.  Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.  Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. FCC Caution: Any changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate this equipment. IMPORTANT NOTE: FCC Radiation Exposure Statement: This SW5001 complies with FCC radiation exposure limits set forth for an uncontrolled environment. This SW5001 should be installed and operated with minimum distance 20cm between the radiator & your body. This transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter. IEEE 802.11b/g operation of this product in the U.S.A. is firmware-limited to channels 1 through 11.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 3 / 50 CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION..................................................................................4 1.1 PACKAGING...........................................................................................................................4 1. 2 APPLICATION CONNECTIVITY.................................................................................................5 2. NOMENCLATURE AND SETTINGS...................................................7 2.1 NOMENCLATURE OF SW5001 COMPONENTS .........................................................................7 2.2 MODE SWITCH.....................................................................................................................7 3. HARDWARE INSTALLATION.............................................................8 3.1 CONFIGURATION....................................................................................................................8 3.2 ASSIGNING A NEW IP ADDRESS BY ARP COMMAND .................................................................8 3.3 AUTO IP................................................................................................................................9 3.4 TCP/IP PORT NUMBER .......................................................................................................10 4. SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION .......................................................10 4.1 CONFIGURATION SET BY MONITOR.EXE UTILITY .....................................................................10 4.2 CONFIGURATION SET BY TELNET UTILITY ..............................................................................10 4.4 CONFIGURATION SET BY WEB BROWSER...............................................................................29 4.5 VIRTUAL COM MODE ..........................................................................................................36 4.5.1 Setup of a Virtual COM driver .................................................................................. 36 4.5.2 Virtual COM communication..................................................................................... 37 5. SNMP SETUP....................................................................................40 5.1 SNMP NETWORK MANAGEMENT PLATFORM ........................................................................40 APPENDIX A: SW5001 WIRELESS SERIAL SERVER SPECIFICATIONS .................................................................................41 A.1. HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS ..............................................................................................41 A.2. SOFTWARE SPECIFICATIONS ..............................................................................................42 A.3 CONNECTOR PIN ASSIGNMENTS ..........................................................................................42 A.3.1 COM Port................................................................................................................. 42 A.3.2 Power terminal block connector............................................................................... 44 A.4 LED INDICATION FOR LINK STATUS ......................................................................................45 A.4.1 Detect SW5001 startup............................................................................................ 45 A.4.2 Detect SW5001 Signal Strength .............................................................................. 45 APPENDIX B CONFIGURATION UTILITY ...........................................47 D.1 RUN THE UTILITY.................................................................................................................47 D.2 DETECT OPERATIONAL DEVICES..........................................................................................47 D.3 CONFIGURE DEVICES..........................................................................................................47
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 4 / 50 1. Introduction Atop SW5001 Wireless Serial Server is a gateway between Ethernet (TCP/IP) and RS-232/RS-485 communications. It allows almost any serial device to be connected to a new or existing wireless network. The information transmitted by SW5001 is transparent to both host computers (IP network over wireless LAN or Ethernet) and devices (RS-232/RS-485). Data coming from the wireless LAN or Ethernet (TCP/IP) is sent to the designated RS-232/RS-485 port and data being received from RS-232/RS-485 port is sent to the Wireless or Ethernet (TCP/IP) transparently. In the computer integration manufacturing or industrial automation area, Atop SW5001 Wireless Serial Server is used for field devices to direct connect to Ethernet network. Terminal Server (main control program run in SW5001) transforms whatever data received from RS-232/RS-485 to TCP/UDP port then connects devices to the IP network via a single application program or multiple application programs. Many control devices provide the ability to communicate with hosts through RS-232/RS-485 however RS-232/RS-485 serial communication has its limitations. For one, it is hard to transfer data through a long distance. With Atop SW5001, it is possible to communicate with a remote device in the Intranet environment or even in the Internet and thus, increases the communication distance dramatically. Flexible configuration options enable this unit to be setup remotely over IP network by Telnet, web browser, or Window utility. Packed in a rugged DIN Rail mountable case and 9~30V DC power input range, SW5001 is ideal for almost any industrial and manufacturing automation. 1.1 Packaging Atop SW5001 Wireless Serial Server x 1 Mini DIN to RS-232 DB 9 connector cable x 1 Wall mount x 2 Atop Wireless Serial Server quick start guide x 1 Product CD containing configuration utility and other tools
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 5 / 50 1. 2 Application Connectivity
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User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 7 / 50 2. Nomenclature and Settings 2.1 Nomenclature of SW5001 Components Figure 2.1 shows the names of SW5001 components. In the figure, the indicated switch settings represent factory settings. 10/100MEthernet port forsettingsMini-DIN Connectorfor Serial port5-pin TerminalBlock for Serialport3-pin TerminalBlock for PowerinputSMA rev. AntennaConnectorLED indicationfor WirelessStatusLED indicationfor SystemStatus Figure 2.1. Nomenclature of SW5001 Components 2.2 MODE Switch This sets or initializes the operating mode for the SW5001. The factory default setting is RS-232 mode. You can use the software configurations to change the operating mode from the factory default settings to your desired mode by web or telnet tools. SW5001 can be setup either RS-232, RS-485 or RS-422 mode by remote network tools, ex. Web browser and telnet.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 8 / 50 3. Hardware Installation  Prepare necessary cables, hub, power cord and RS-232/RS-485 connector.  Place SW5001 to the area that an access point can cover, or connector it via Ethernet cable with RJ45 connecor.  Connect a serial device to a serial port of SW5001, make sure the right connection of either RS-232 or RS-485.  Plug in DC-9-30V, the buzzer will beep and the RUN LED will blink if SW5001 functions normally. Please refer to Appendix A.5 to see all of LED messages.  Use monitor.exe configuration utility in the product CD or diskette to diagnose SW5001. If it starts up successfully, you are able to find the IP and MAC addresses of SW5001. You can change the network parameters of SW5001 to join your LAN by changing its IP address, gateway IP address and subnet mask. Note: If there are more than one access points, the access point’s ESSID must be the same. 3.1 Configuration Atop SW5001 Wireless Serial Server is shipped with default settings shown in the following table: Property Default Value IP Address 10.0.50.100 Gateway 10.0.0.254 Subnet Mask 255.255.0.0 User Name admin Password Null COM 1 9600,None, 8, 1, No flow control, buffer disabled, packet delimiter timer 1ms Link 1 Type: TCP Server, Listen port 4660, Filter=0.0.0.0, Virtual COM disabled SysName of SNMP name SysLocation of SNMP location SysContact of SNMP contact NOTE: Atop provides a default button to restore system settings including IP address, gateway IP address and subnet mask etc. to the defaults. Press and hold the default button for 5 seconds till the server reboots. 3.2 Assigning a new IP Address by ARP command arp –s is used to assign a static IP address of SW5001 and add this static entries to the ARP cache of the computer, when TCP/IP packet with destination port number 1 is sent to SW5001, it causes the device to check its MAC address with IP address, once SW5001 finds those two unmatched, it will reboot and change to the new IP address which was set by arp –s command. The following example uses ARP to assign a static IP address of SW5001 using its MAC address printed on the label of the rear panel, then
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 9 / 50 use Telnet to send the TCP/IP packet with destination port number 1 to SW5001, after SW5001 reboots it will change its IP address to the new one. Note: 1. Arp command can only be used to set a static IP address of SW5001 using system reset user name admin and default password null. 2. Only TCP/IP packet with destination port number 1 will lead SW5001 to reboot and change the IP address. 3.3 Auto IP A DHCP server automatically assigns the IP address and network settings. SW5001 supports DHCP. It will supply for the unit with an IP address gateway address, and subnet mask. You may use Monitor.exe software to search network information automatically by putting a check on Auto IP on Dialog window.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 10 / 50 3.4 TCP/IP Port Number Port number 4660 is default of SW5001 and is associated with serial port COM1. After your application program connects to the TCP port 4660 of SW5001, data being sent to this TCP connection from your application program are transparent to the COM1 of SW5001. Vice versa is also true. 4. Software Configuration 4.1 Configuration set by monitor.exe utility Use monitor.exe that comes with the product CD or diskette to configure the network parameters of SW5001. As you can see from the following picture, you can change IP address, gateway IP address, subnet mask, user ID and password of SW5001 from the utility. For more details of the utility please refer to Appendix-D Configuration Utility. 4.2 Configuration set by Telnet utility You can use Telnet utility to change configuration settings of SW5001. To do so, please do the following. Log in to the system  Telnet to SW5001 using command “Telnet IP_address”. For example Telnet 10.0.50.100 1. After Telnet to SW5001, system prompts for a password, the default password is null.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 11 / 50 Note: You can press the default button of SW5001 to reset the password to the default value. 2. After verifying the password, the following terminal screen appears. Notes: 1. If SW5001 does not receive any command within 1 minute, Telnet will be terminated automatically. 2. The changes of networking parameters will take effect only when you exit and restart SW5001. 3. Select “1” from “Input choice and enter (0~5):” to enter overview page as following:
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 12 / 50 This page gives you the general information of SW5001 including IP and MAC address, SNMP information, kernel and AP version, and connection status of the device.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 13 / 50 Networking Select “2” from “Input choice and enter (0~5):” to enter Networking page as following: This page allows you to change network settings of the device including IP address, subnet mask, gateway IP address and SNMP information of SW5001. Please notice that any setting change made on this page won’t take effect until you restart the device. Change the password 1. Select “3” from “Input choice and enter (0~5):” the following screen appears. 2. If you want to change the password, please type the old password in the “Please input old password”
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 14 / 50 field, type the new password in the “Please input new password” and the “Please verify new password” fields. Note: You can press the default key of product to reset password to the default value. COM1 Setup Select “4” from “Input choice and enter (0~5):” the following screen appears The page gives you an opportunity to configure parameters of COM1 setting which includes COM1 working mode, port parameters, enabling or disabling serial buffer’s data and setting packet delimiter. LINK1 Setup Type 1 from “Input choice and enter (1~4):” of COM1, the following screen appears. Configure SW5001 as TCP server and the local port is 4660. IP filter is disabled by default, if IP filter is enabled, only source IP 10.0.0.154 can connect to SW5001. Note: IP filtering function is disabled if setting FILTER_IP to “0.0.0.0”.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 15 / 50 Configure SW5001 as TCP client, the destination IP is 10.0.29.123, destination port is 666.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 16 / 50 Configure SW5001 as UDP client, the local port is 4660, the destination IP is 10.0.29.254, destination port is 666.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 17 / 50 COM port setting Type 2 from “Input choice and enter (1~4):” of COM1, the following screen appears, you can then give the COM port alias name, set the baud rate and parity, determine number of data bit and stop bit, and decide if you want to use flow control and the type of flow control you want to use.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 18 / 50 Enabling serial data buffer Type 3 from “Input choice and enter (1~4):” of COM1, by default COM port serial data buffer is enabled meaning that when TCP/IP Ethernet connection is broken, serial data collected from serial device will be kept in SW5001, once TCP/IP connection is resumed, the serial data will be sent through Ethernet connection, you can disable it if you wish.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 19 / 50 Setting packet delimiter Packet delimiter is a way of controlling packets within serial communication. It can prevent packets from being cut thus keep the packets complete. SW5001 provides two ways of parameter setting as inter character timer and terminator. By default packet delimiter timer is 0 ms, you can change timer shown in the following figure:
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User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 21 / 50 You can also choose character pattern as the packet delimiter indicated in the following figure: Accessing Wireless LAN setting Select “5” from “Input choice and enter (0~5):” the following screen appears.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 22 / 50 The above page gives you the general information about SW5001 wireless configurations including the access point it connects to, the current channel and transmitting rate it communicates with the other wireless devices, topology it uses, and what the ESSID (extended service set identifier) and WEP (wireless encryption protocol) are if you use them.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 23 / 50 Wireless LAN topology You can choose either infrastructure or ad-hoc mode for SW5001 as indicated in the following figure: Wireless LAN Transmission Rate You can set SW5001 transmission rate as 1 Mbps, 2Mbps, 5.5Mbps, 11Mbps, or full auto based on 802.11 standard shown in the following figure:
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 24 / 50 Wireless LAN Ad-hoc channel You have to select the same channel for two wireless devices to talk to each other as indicated in the following figure:
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 25 / 50 Wireless LAN ESSID ESSID (extended service set identification) is used to identify all of the computers in the wireless LAN system, it is different from BSSID (basic service set identification) which contains a single access point (AP) and several other nodes. The following diagram illustrates this concept:
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 26 / 50 By default, SW5001’s ESSID is NULL meaning that it can connect to any access point it detects regardless of SSID of the access point. However if there are two access points within the coverage of SW5001, it will not connect to either of them, in this case you have to specifically input the ESSID of one of the access points for connection. From telnet you can input ESSID as indicated in the following figure:
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 27 / 50 Wireless Encryption Protocol or Wired Equivalent Protocol ( WEP ) Setting For security reason, SW5001 can set up to use WEP key of 40 bits or 128 bits to securely communicate in the wireless network. Telnet WEP key set up screen is as following:
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User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 29 / 50 4.4 Configuration set by web browser It is also possible to modify various settings through the web server interface. To do so, please follow the steps below. Log in to the system 1. From web browser, type in the IP address of SW5001 in the URL. Example: http://10.0.50.100 2. The following authentication screen appears. Please type in user name and password then click on “OK”. The user name is admin and password is null by default. 3. The following overview page appears.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 30 / 50 Change the password 1. Click on the “Security” link and the following screen appears. 2. Please input the old password in the “Old Password” field, input the new password in the “New Password” and the “Verified Password” fields. Then click on “Save Configuration” to update the password. Note: You can press the default key of product to reset password to the default value.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 31 / 50 Network setup Click on the “Networking” link and the following screen appears. Fill in IP information under TCP/IP field. Alternatively, you can do the configuration by putting a check on DHCP to obtain auto IP address, gateway and subnet mask information. Enable SNMP by checking “Enable”, fill in network identification information under SNMP field and click on the “Save Configuration” button to save the changes, please notice that the setting will not become effective until you restart SW5001.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 32 / 50 COM1 Setup Click on the “COM1” link and the following screen appears. Fill in COM1 parameter information under COM1 field then click on “Save Configuration” button to save the changes.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 33 / 50 LINK1 Setup 1. Click on the “COM1” link and the following screen appears, you can configure SW5001 as transparent mode by default. Configure SW5001 as TCP server and the local port is 4660, IP filter is disabled by default, if IP filter is enabled, only source IP 10.0.29.11 can connect to SW5001. Configure SW5001 as TCP client, the destination IP is 10.0.29.11, destination port is 4660. Pair Connection In the case of the serial connection is established with two or more SW5001 to send data over Ethernet network, i.e. pair connection mode, you can choose “pair connection” which is indicated in the following figure to cope with any type of serial device.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 34 / 50 Configure SW5001 as TCP client, the destination IP is 10.0.29.11, destination port is 4660. Configure SW5001 as UDP mode. Local port is 666, destination IP is 10.0.50.100 and destination port is 4660. 2. Click on “Save Configuration” to save the changes. 3. If the update is successful, the following screen appears.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 35 / 50 Wireless LAN Setup You can configure wireless LAN parameters through web pages, the following page gives you the information of the access point SW5001 is connected to, it also allows you to configure SW5001’s wireless topology, ESSID and WEP security. In addition, the BSS Quality and Signal Strength will indicate you the situation of signal.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 36 / 50 4.5 Virtual COM Mode Virtual COM driver mode for windows converts COM data to IP data to control the RS-232C port on a SW5001 via the IP. By creating Virtual COM ports on the PC, Atop Virtual COM redirects the communications from the Virtual COM ports to an IP address and port number on a SW5001 that connects the serial line device to the network. The following figure is Atop Virtual COM connection diagram. Physical COM1Physical COM2COM3(Virtual COM Port)COM4(Virtual COM Port)COM5(Virtual COM Port)COM6(Virtual COM Port)OS Driver LevelCOM256(Virtual COM Port)PC::HUBTCP/IP NetworkSerial LineSerial Device 1Serial LineSerial Device 2Serial LineSerial Device 3Serial LineSerial Device 4SW5001-WgN1 4.5.1 Setup of a Virtual COM driver Pre-installation requirements Please check the operation system on your PC complied with the following requirements: • Processor: Intel-compatible, Pentium class • Operation system: Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 SP5 or later, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 95, Microsoft NT/2000 Terminal Server, Citrix MetaFrame • Windows Installer 2.0 • Network: Microsoft TCP/IP networking software
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 37 / 50 Applying to the serial server Cautions on Use Atop Virtual COM supports firmware AP v3.4 and above of ABLELink Wirless Serial Servers. Limitation Atop Virtual COM driver provides user to select up to 256 COM ports as Virtual COM ports in a monitoring PC. User can select them from a list of COM ports, which is from COM1 up to COM256. Installation Make sure you have turned off all anti-virus software before beginning the installation. Run AtopVcom.exe program included in the CD to install Atop Virtual COM for your operating system. In the end of the installation, please select one or two COM ports to become the Virtual COM ports. Uninstalling 1. From Windows Start menu select Setting, Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs. 2. Select Serial IP for ATOP in the list of installed software. 3. Click the Add/Remove button to remove the program, or From Windows Start menu select Programs, Serial IP for ATOP, Uninstall Serial IP for ATOP to remove the program. 4.5.2 Virtual COM communication 4.5.2.1 Enable Virtual COM on SW5001 From web browser access to SW5001 by typing its IP address, click on COM1 link to access COM1 page, on the top half of the page click on “TCP Server” and enable Virtual COM by putting a check in front of the “Enable” button, then type in the local port number in the “Local Port” field as indicated in the following figure: For the users of Mitsubishi A-Series PLC, it may be recommended to enable “Mitsubishi A-Series PLC” in the case of some connection problems occurred.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 38 / 50 Or you can enable Virtual COM through telnet configuration by setting COM1 as TCP server, and type in the local port number for COM1, then enable virtual COM as shown in the following figure: 4.5.2.2 Run Serial/IP for ATOP program on monitoring PC In the Window Start Menu, select the Serial/IP for ATOP program group and select Serial/IP for ATOP Configuration. The configuration window is shown as following:
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 39 / 50 At right is a sample Virtual COM Control Panel window. At the left is the list of the COM ports that you have selected (in the Select Ports window) for use by the Virtual COM Redirector. If you wish to change which ports appear in this list, use the Select Ports button. Each COM port has its own settings. When you click on a COM port, the Control Panel display changes to reflect the settings for that COM port. Note: When you change settings for a COM port, the changes are effective immediately. There is no separate confirmation dialog to confirm or cancel your changes. Configuring Virtual COM Ports You configure each Serial/IP COM port as follows: 1. Select a COM port in the list. 2. For IP Address of Server, enter a numeric IP address for the serial server. 3. For Port Number, enter the TCP port number that the serial server uses to provide its serial ports to the network. 4. For Server Credentials, the default is No Login Required. If your serial server does require a login by the Virtual COM Redirector, the Virtual COM Redirector needs to provide
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 40 / 50 a username and/or password every time an application tries to use the serial server. 5. Click the Configuration Wizard button and then click the Start button that appears in the wizard window. This important step verifies that the Virtual COM Redirector can communicate with the serial server using the settings you have provided. If the Log display does not show errors, click the Use Settings button in the wizard, which makes the recommended settings effective and returns you to the Control Panel to continue with the following steps. 6. For Connection Protocol, the setting must match the TCP/IP protocol that the serial server supports. The Configuration Wizard is usually able to determine the correct setting. 7. For COM Port Options, the settings must match the COM port behavior expected by the PC application that will use this COM port. The Configuration Wizard will recommend a combination of settings. 5. SNMP Setup 5.1 SNMP Network Management Platform Atop SW5001 is an SNMP device that allows many popular SNMP network management platforms such as HP OpenView and SunNet Manager to conduct monitoring on the device. Depending on the network management tools you are using, device (SW5001) information can be collected from running the management tools including IP address, DNS name, system descriptions and NIC information etc.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 41 / 50 Appendix A: SW5001 Wireless Serial Server Specifications A.1. Hardware Specifications Specifications CPU 150MHz RISC with MMU support Memory Flash: 8MB /2MB for Bootloader / SDRAM: 16MBytes. Interface Mini-PCI Slot (for Wireless Module) Watchdog Hardware Watchdog Reset Debug Port CPU Build in Com. Wireless LAN Compliance for IEEE802.11b/g WEP 64-bit/128-bit data encryption WPA Compatible (TKIP/AES Encryption) Mobile for Fast Roaming Modulation Type: CCK, DQPSK, DBPSK, OFDM (11g) Tx Power 11b: 14dBm / 11g: 13 dBm Rx Sensitivity: -66 dBm @ 54 Mbps, -80 dBm @ 11Mbps Transmission Rate: 54 Mbps (max.) with auto fallback Transmission distance: Up to 300 meters (@12 Mbps, in open areas) Antenna Connector: Reverse SMA Topologies: Infrastructure, Ad-Hoc Ethernet 10/100M LAN (for Redundancy & Configuration) Protection: Built-in 1.5 KV magnetic isolation Configuration with Telnet Protocol Serial Port Support RS232/485/422 & Software Selection Baud Rate: 1200~921Kbps Parity Check: None/Odd/Even/Mark/Space Data Length: 7/8 Bit Stop Bit: 1/2 Flow Control: None/ Software/ Hardware: RTS/CTS Terminal Block or DB9 Connector with 15KV ESD Power Input: DC 9V-30V Consumption: 4.5 W (Tx Mode) Software Protocols: ICMP, IP, TCP, UDP, DHCP Client, Telnet, DNS, SNMP, HTTP, SMTP, SNTP Utilities: Windows utility for Windows 98/2000/XP/2003 Virtual COM for Windows 98/2000/XP/2003
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 42 / 50 Configuration Web browser Telnet Console Windows utility Mechanical HxWxD: 90mm x 45mm x 75mm Metal Housing for IP50 Standard Environment Operating: 0 to 60°C (32 to 140°F), 5 to 95% RH Storage: -20 to 85°C (-4 to 185°F), 5 to 95%RH A.2. Software Specifications Item Specifications Protocol ICMP, IP, TCP, UDP, DHCP Client, Telnet, DNS, SNMP, HTTP, SMTP, SNTP Configuration Configuration information for both TCP/IP and serial ports is kept in the EEPROM. Configuration utilities of Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/2003 are provided for configuring settings. Internal Buffer Size TCP receiving buffer size = 8K bytes TCP transmitting buffer size = 16K bytes RS-232/RS-485 receiving buffer size = 4K bytes RS-232/RS-485 transmitting buffer size = 4K bytes A.3 Connector Pin Assignments A.3.1 COM Port 1. 8 pin Mini DIN connector
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 43 / 50 Pin assignments of Mini DIN connector is shown in the following table: Pin# RS-232 Full Duplex RS-485 2 wire, Half Duplex RS-485 4 wire, Full Duplex 1 DCD N/A N/A 2 RXD N/A RxD/T+ 3 TXD TxD/R+ TxD/R+ 4 DTR N/A (reserved) N/A 5 SG (Signal Ground) SG (Signal Ground) SG (Signal Ground) 6 DSR N/A N/A 7 RTS RTS/R- RTS/R- 8 CTS N/A CTS/T- 9 N/A N/A(reserved for Atop devices) N/A Atop provides Mini DIN connector to DB9 connector cable, the pin assignments of DB9 connector is shown in the following table: Pin# RS-232 Full Duplex RS-485 2 wire, Half Duplex RS-485 4 wire, Full Duplex 1 DCD N/A N/A 2 RXD N/A N/A 3 TXD DATA- RXD- 4 DTR N/A (reserved) TXD- 5 SG (Signal Ground) SG (Signal Ground) SG (Signal Ground) 6 DSR N/A N/A 7 RTS N/A N/A 8 CTS DATA+ RXD+ 9 RI N/A(reserved for Atop devices) TXD+ Note that RS-485 2 or 4 pins assignments of DB9 connector are different from those of Mini DIN connector.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 44 / 50 2. Terminal Block Connector RS-485 only uses RTS/R- and TxD/R+ for data communication while RS-232 or RS-422 uses RTS/R-, TxD/R+, CTS/T- and RxD/T+ for communicating data. A.3.2 Power terminal block connector
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 45 / 50 A.4 LED Indication for Link Status A.4.1 Detect SW5001 startup “ ^ “ : Beep twice “ = “ : Beep off Message Description ^==^========^^^ (5sec) Startup OK and AP firmware is enabled Table 1. Buzzer indication A.4.2 Detect SW5001 Signal Strength The BSS quality can be detected by LED indication in SW5001. Run-time When run-time, if the default key is pressed and then released, one of the specified actions will be down depending on the released time after you heard how many beeps. BSS quality is indicated by count of LEDs, which is shown as bellowed: Blink RED There is no signal detected One RED The quality is between is 0%~20% 2 LEDs The quality is between is 20%~40% 3 LEDs The quality is between is 40%~60% 4 LEDs The quality is between is 60%~80% 5 LEDs The quality is between is 80%~100% LAN LED Message Description LED Off No data is transmitting on Ethernet LED blinking Data is transmitting on Ethernet Table 2. LAN LED Message COM Port LED
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 46 / 50 Message Description LED off No data is transmitting on COM port LED on blinking state Data is transmitting on COM port Table 3. COM Port LED Message RUN LED Message Description LED on Jumper JP7 and JP8 are short to disable AP firmware in the flash memory. LED blinking (rate: 0.5Sec) AP firmware is running Table 4. RUN LED Message
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 47 / 50 Appendix B Configuration Utility The configuration utility monitorXX.exe (XX: Version number) comes with the product CD or diskette is the main utility program to demonstrate and configure SW5001’s settings. D.1 Run the utility Start the program under environment and the following window appears. D.2 Detect Operational Devices You may do the following steps to detect devices currently available on the network. 1. Start monitorXX.exe utility program. 2. Select an item from the Broadcast IP list. 3. Specify a number in the Wishes box. 4. Click on the Invite button. This will display all the devices information you have requested. D.3 Configure Devices You may use monitorXX.exe configuration utility to configure the settings of devices on the network. To do so, please follow the steps below. 1. Repeat the steps in the section of D.2 to bring up the devices information. 2. Select the device you want to configure from the IP Address column, click on the Config button, a configuration window will popup as shown in Figure D2:
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 48 / 50 3. After you click the “Configure Now” button, the target device will return an ACK message indicating the modification is successful as shown in the following: Please note monitor25.exe version 2.5 and above requires gw21le.dll library to function properly.
User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 49 / 50 The following table lists the functional descriptions for all the fields. Field Name Field Descriptions Broadcast IP Except for the default IP 255.255.255.255, other items (IPs) are read from the file “seg.cfg”. This field specifies a detecting IP range. It may be a designated IP or a broadcast IP. Wishes Specifies minimum number of the devices you wish to get reply from after sending an Invite request. If there is not as many as devices responding to your invitation, the system repeatedly sends invitation until your request is fulfilled. Reply Indicates the actual number of devices this utility program detected. Retry Specify the number of times that an Invite request is re-sent. Locate Locate the specified device. Reset Reset the selected device. Config Configure the selected device. Exit Exit this utility. IP Address Indicate the IP address of the device that replied to your request.  Leading tag “!” stands for IP address collision, possibly caused by duplicated IP addresses on the network.  Leading tag “?” stands for Mac address collision, possibly caused by duplicated Mac addresses on the network. MAC Address Indicates the MAC address of responding device. Gateway Indicates the IP address of the gateway. Subnet Mask Indicates the TCP/IP network mask. OS Indicates the OS version of the responding device. AP Version Indicates the AP version of the responding device. Model Indicates the model number of the responding device. This field is only available for monitor.exe version 2.0 and above.

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