Overview - Applied Biosystems StepOne Installation, Networking, And Maintenance

Chapter 5 Connect the System to a Network

Overview

Overview
About Remote
Monitoring
Network Setup
Workflow
Notes
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After installing the Applied Biosystems StepOne
System, you can connect the instrument to a local area network to enhance its
functionality.
This chapter describes how to:
• Set up the instrument for use on a network.
• Set up a computer for remote monitoring.
• Test the network connection by engaging the remote monitoring feature.
Once the instrument is connected to a network, any computer on the network can use the
remote monitoring feature of the StepOne
run, the remote monitoring feature can provide run status, temperature, and amplification
data as the instrument collects them. See
information on remote monitoring.
The remote monitoring feature does not allow you to control of the
IMPORTANT!
instrument. Control of the instrument is limited to the colocated computer when the
system is in a colocated layout, or the instrument touchscreen when the system is in a
standalone layout.
Chapter
Install the Colocated Layout
1. Define the LAN Port IP settings.
Set up the computer for remote monitoring
1. Connect the computer to the network.
2. Install the StepOne
1. Enable remote monitoring.
Applied Biosystems StepOne
™
or StepOnePlus
™
software to monitor the instrument. During a
"Monitor the Instrument" on page 82
3,
Install the Standalone Layout
Connect the instrument to a network
™
software.
Test the network connection
™
and StepOnePlus
Installation, Networking, and Maintenance Guide
™
Real-Time PCR
for more
Chapter 4,
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Real-Time PCR Systems