Digi Connect WAN Series User Manual page 123

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Remote Manager-registered device is Digi device that connects to the Remote Manager platform
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which implements the EDP protocol in order to establish and maintain this connection.
For more information about Remote Manager, these terms, and how to remotely configure and
manage this device, please visit the
Guide.
Device ID requirement for the Digi device
When configuring a Digi device to be a Remote Manager-registered device, you must create a Device
ID for the Digi device. The Device ID allows the Digi device to communicate with Remote Manager.
By default, the Device ID is created from the MAC address of the device. The default setting is the
recommended setting for the Device ID. You can configure the Device ID from the Configuration >
System > Device Identity Settings page on the Digi device's web interface. See
for more information.
After you configure the device's Device ID, you must sign in to Remote Manager and configure the
settings on the following pages:
Connection Settings
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Short Messaging
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Advanced Settings
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Connection settings
The Connection settings configure how the Remote Manager-registered device connects to Remote
Manager. These settings allow the Remote Manager-registered device and Remote Manager to
communicates with each other.
About Remote Manager connections
If you enable Short Message Service (SMS) capabilities on your Remote Manager-registered device,
a device-initiated connection may be requested through a paged connection. To illustrate how these
types of connections work, the following image shows a configuration scenario featuring Remote
Manager-registered devices communicating over a cellular network.
You can specify addresses for Remote Manager-registered devices that are publicly known, or private
and dynamic, or handled through Network Address Translation (NAT). NAT reduces the need for a
large amount of publicly known IP addresses by creating a separation between publicly known and
privately known IP addresses. NAT allows a single device, such as a router, to act as an agent
between a public network, such as the Internet or a wireless network, and a private, or local,
network. This means that only one unique IP address is needed to represent an entire group of
computers. Addresses handled through NAT can access the rest of "the world," but "the world"
cannot access them.
In a device-initiated Remote Manager connection, the Remote Manager-registered device connects to
the network, and tries to establish a connection to Remote Manager. To maintain the connection, the
Remote Manager-registered device sends keep-alive messages over the connection. You can configure
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Remote Manager product page
Configuration through the web interface
and see the Remote Manager User
System Configuration
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