Basic Steps For A New Configuration; Notes On Zero-Config Networking - Black Box ACR1000A-CTL-24 Manual

4.3 Basic steps for a new configuration

When adding and configuring new devices using an iPATH Agility Controller, these are the basic steps that you need to take:
1 Add the new Agility devices to the network and ensure that they are using a default factory configuration. If necessary, reset
each one (see section 4.3.4).
2 Ensure that the iPATH Agility Controller is attached to the same subnet as the Agility units and is powered on.
3 On a host computer also connected to the same subnet, use a suitable web browser to login to the iPATH Agility Controller as
the admin user. The default IP address for iPATH Agility Controllers is 169.254.1.3
4 View the Dashboard page. The Agility units should announce themselves to the iPATH Agility Controller and as they do so, they
will be automatically added at the top of the Dashboard page.
If your Agility units are not added to the Dashboard page, please see section 4.3.3.
5 Either:
• Click 'Configure' for a particular Agility entry to deal with an individual unit in isolation, or
• Click 'Configure all new devices' to list all units within the Configure New Devices page.
6 Within the chosen configuration page, perform the following:
• Substitute the default IP address applied to each Agility unit for a suitable one (e.g. 192.168.x.y) within the subnet.
• Optionally use the Description and Location fields to add unique identifying information for each Agility unit - this is
particularly important for medium to large installations.
Note: Where necessary, click the
location.
• Click the Save button. The new Agility units will be restarted and will be changed to use their new IP addresses.
7 The new Agility units will be added to the relevant Transmitter and Receiver pages within the iPATH admin view. You can now
refine their configurations and organise their relationships with each other and with registered users.

4.3.1 Notes on Zero-config networking

• If you are using a static zero-config address, then the recommended address to be set to at initial log in is 169.254.1.1 This will
avoid any potential IP address clashes.
• The iPATH/Agility network uses the following zero-config addresses by default:
• Primary iPATH Agility Controller: 169.254.1.2 This is a fixed address that is always present.
• iPATH ETH1 configuration: 169.254.1.3 This is the address to use for initial login and will be changed to a permanent
network address.
• Backup iPATH Agility Controller: If the iPATH Agility Controller finds itself on the same network as an active iPATH Agility
Controller it will take the role of a backup iPATH Agility Controller. In this role it will assign itself the zero-config address of
169.254.1.4
Future versions of iPATH will allow for more than one backup server and will implement clustering. In such installations, the
iPATH Agility Controllers will auto assign themselves on the even zero-config addresses:
169.254.1.2 (Master) 169.254.1.4 (First backup) 169.254.1.6 (Second backup, etc.)
• Agility TXs - These use the zero-config addresses of 169.254.1.31..33..35.
• Agility RXs - These use the zero-config addresses of 169.254.1.32..34..36.
• If there are more than 3 pairs on the network, the zero-config addresses are then randomly assigned but 169.254.1.1 would
not get used.
icon for a particular Agility unit to flash the unit's front panel indicators to confirm its
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