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Summary of Contents for ANTAIRA STE-501C
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Serial-Ethernet Server STE-501C User’s Manual Version 1.4...
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MPORTANT NNOUNCEMENT The information contained in this document is the property of Antaira Technologies, LLC and is supplied for the sole purpose of operation and maintenance of products of Antaira Technologies, LLC 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 explicit written consent of Antaira Technologies, LLC.
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It is essential that only the supplied power cord can be used. Use only shielded cables to connect the device’s RS-232 or RS-485 port. Be cautioned that changes or modifications not explicitly approved by Antaira Technologies could void your authority to operate the equipment.
RS-232 or RS-485/RS-422 serial communication has its limitations. For one, it is hard to transfer data through a long distance. With STE-501C, 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.
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STE-501C TCP Client Mode: STE-501C can be configured as a TCP client on TCP/IP Network to establish a connection with other applications (server) in host computer actively. After the connection is established, data can be transmitted between serial device and host computer in both directions.
PC is in the same network sub-net as STE-501C. Step 3: Connect STE-501C’s serial port to a serial device. Step 4: Placement options. One can mount STE-501C to a wall/panel (Mounting screws included) or Din-Rail rack (Require optional item model: Din-Rail-Kit DK-25).
User’s Manual Version 1.4 Serial to Ethernet Device Server STE-501C 3. Software Setup STE-501C Ethernet Serial Server is shipped with default settings shown in the following table: Property Default Value 10.0.50.100 IP Address Gateway 10.0.0.254 255.255.0.0 Subnet Mask User Name...
Figure 3.2 Static IP setup dialog window 3.1.2 Auto IP (Dynamic IP) A DHCP server can automatically assign the IP address and network settings. STE-501C supports the DHCP function. By default, the DHCP function on STE-501C is disabled; one can use Monitor.exe software to search network information automatically by following steps:...
(Figure 3.4) Figure 3.4 Login to the system Note: One can press the default button of STE-501C to reset the password to the default value. 1. After verifying the password, the following terminal screen appears.( Figure 3.5) Figure 3.5 Main menu...
User’s Manual Version 1.4 Serial to Ethernet Device Server STE-501C 3.2.5 Configure STE-501C as TCP Client Type 2 in the “Input choice(1~5) and enter:“(Figure 3.11) Input destination IP in the “Please input Destination IP:” Input destination port in the “Please input Destination port:”...
User’s Manual Version 1.4 Serial to Ethernet Device Server STE-501C 3.2.6 Configure STE-501C as UDP Client For example the local port is 4660, the destination IP is 10.0.29.254, destination port is 1234. ( Figure 3.12) Figure 3.12 Link Mode-UDP client setup 3.2.7 COM Port Setting...
TCP/IP Ethernet connection is broken, serial data collected from serial device will be empty in STE-501C once TCP/IP connection is resumed, the serial data will be sent through Ethernet connection, one can disable it if one wish.( Figure 3.14) Figure 3.14 Com port-Enabling serial data buffer...
1. Make sure ones PC is located on the same network sub-net as STE-501C 2. Open a web browser, then type in the IP address of STE-501C to be configured. Default user name is admin and default password is null (leave it blank).
STE-501C.( Figure 3.20) Figure 3.20 Network setup 3.3.4 Configure STE-501C as TCP Server one can configure STE-501C as transparent mode by default (Figure 3.21) Click on the “COM1” link and the following screen appears. Configure STE-501C as TCP server ...
Figure 3.21 Com1 setup-TCP server Note: 1. Default Port number of STE-501C is 4660 and it is associated with serial port COM1 respectively. After ones application program connects to the TCP port 4660 of STE-501C, data being sent to this TCP connection from ones application program are transparent to the COM1 of STE-501C.
Figure 3.22 Com1 setup-TCP client 3.3.6 Pair Connection In the case of the serial connection is established with two or more STE-501C to send data over Ethernet network, i.e. pair connection mode, one can choose “pair connection” which is indicated in the following figure to cope with any type of serial device.
Virtual COM driver mode for windows converts COM data to LAN data to control the RS-232 port on a STE-501C via the LAN. By creating virtual COM ports on the PC, the Virtual COM driver redirects the communications from the virtual COM ports to an IP address and port number on a STE-501C that connects the serial line device to the network.
4.2.1 Enable Virtual COM on STE-501C From web browser access to STE-501C 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”...
5. SNMP Setup 5.1 SNMP Network Management Platform STE-501C 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 one are using, device STE-501C information can be collected from running the management tools including IP address, DNS name, system descriptions and NIC information etc.
(see chapter 3 Hardware Installation section). 3. Configure STE-501C as TCP Server using default TCP port number 4660. 4. The host (PC) application program must be configured as a TCP client and connects to STE-501C with designated TCP port number 4660 for COM1.
Serial to Ethernet Device Server STE-501C 7. Diagnostics There are several ways one can check on the status and availability of STE-501C. 7.1 Use Standard TCP/IP Utility Ping Command From Windows Start menu, select Run and type in “ping <TCP Server IP address>”.
User’s Manual Version 1.4 Serial to Ethernet Device Server STE-501C A.3.2 DB9 Pin Assignments The pin assignments of DB9 connector on STE-501C is shown in the following table: RS-232 RS-485 2-wire RS-422/RS-485 4-wire Pin# Full Duplex Half Duplex Full Duplex...
10.0.50.100 Load U5001ap.hex The first line identifies the IP address of STE-501C, the second line identifies the firmware (.Hex file) name to be downloaded. Execute the utility program download.bat, it can be found in the product CD. Input the user name and password credential, the new firmware will be downloaded.
If STE-501C does not receive any upgrading data within 30 seconds, STE-501C will restart automatically and the system remains intact. After the upgrading process finishes, STE-501C will program the flash memory and buzzer beeps 6 times then restarts. Normally, it takes around 10 seconds to complete the programming process. If an error occurs during the programming process, STE-501C will clear the corresponding memory and the system remains intact of what it was.
STE-501C Appendix C: Disable System Firmware The AP (application program) firmware of STE-501C can be disabled. This function is used in the situation that one downloaded a wrong version of firmware that caused the system crashed. To disable the current version of firmware and prevent it from executing, please do the followings: 1.
Appendix D: Using Monitor.exe Utility The configuration utility monitor.exe comes with the product CD or diskette is the main utility program to demonstrate and configure STE-501C’s settings. D.1 Run the utility Start the program under Windows 95/98/NT/2000 environment and the following window appears (Figure D1).
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