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Instruction VIBRO Condition Monitoring 3 VCM-3 Use of the built-in Homepage (web server) Keep it accessible for future reference UNRESTRICTED DOCUMENT...
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Brüel & Kjær Vibro GmbH shall be prohibited. This also applies to parts of this technical documentation. Instruction VCM-3 - Homepage, C107760.002 / v02, en, date of issue: 16.06.2021 Brüel & Kjær Vibro GmbH Brüel &...
About this instruction Scope The scope of this document is to provide instructions of how to use the VCM-3 Homepage (web server) for: • Configuration and commissioning of VCM-3 • Viewing data • Manual start of time waveform recordings •...
On first time login to the VCM-3, you may use the following credentials: Administrator User A user which has administrator rights on the VCM-3 homepage. All parts of the VCM-3 homepage can be altered by this user including create and modify users.
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Enter the IP address of the VCM-3 in the address field of the browser. If you connect to a particular VCM-3 for the first time, the browser will prompt you with security precautions as it does not know the origin of the VCM-3 public certificate.
After login the Operational Status page is shown. This page gives an overview of the present status of the VCM-3. As a general rule the status indicators in the red boxes must have the status as shown on the screenshot. Otherwise there is a problem with the VCM-3.
Commissioning – Configuration NOTE! In order to complete the configuration of the VCM-3 you should also fill in the Commissioning-Services page. Refer to next section. How to enter VCM-3 network parameters Enter Name Number of the monitored machine. These fields are used to identify the VCM-3 data records.
Configure allowed address ranges for clients to the http and https services. The default port number for these services can also be changed. Click Apply to save configuration. Ping Allow other devices to ping the VCM-3. You may specify the IP range of the devices which is allowed to ping. NTP (server) Configure the address of the NTP server used for time synchronizing the VCM-3.
(factory) template the Oscilloscope the plot could freeze, or the VCM-3 homepage becomes unresponsive. When this condition occurs, the user usually has to call up another function on the VCM-3 homepage and then return to the Oscilloscope view.
When commissioning has been completed a report with commissioning details can be printed or saved to a PDF file. This PDF file also contains all current IP settings of the VCM-3 as well as the username of the current user.
Click Choose file and browse to the folder on the laptop which contains the monitoring template. Select the required template Click the Upload button to upload the template to the VCM-3. The new template will be added to the list of AvailableStandard (Master) Monitoring Templates.
The VCM-3 Homepage Data – View Descriptor Data All descriptor (measurement) values measured by the VCM-3 can be viewed on this page. A selection of maximum six descriptor values can be plotted as a continuously updated trend curve. How to View Descriptor Data All descriptor data can be viewed in the list if “all”...
Data – View Array Data 2.10 The Array data which have been configured in the template can be displayed. That is, Auto-spectrum, Envelope spectrum, Cepstrum etc. How to View Array Data Click the desired array measurement from the list After a little while – please be patient - the array measurement is displayed. The update rate is defined in the template, it will normally be around 15-20 seconds.
Specify the IP address of the Remote Server. A web service on the remote server must be available to receive the download request from the VCM-3. Enter a Reference ID. This is a free text string used to identify the particular download Specify Timeout (s).
You must have a description of the available triggers, ring buffers and jobs in the actual template as a help to configure the one shot triggers. The One Shot Trigger is activated once, and then forgotten by the VCM-3. Cyclic triggers can be defined via the monitoring template.
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Brüel & Kjær Vibro │Instruction VCM-3 - Homepage The VCM-3 Homepage How to initiate a time waveform using One Shot Trigger Select the descriptor to be used for defining the trigger condition. Define the activation range for the trigger by defining the Lower limits and Upper limits of the selected descriptor.
VCM-3 – User Management 2.14 You can define three user levels for the VCM-3 Homepage. You can add/update/delete a user if you have Administrator rights. • Administrator has access to all functionality on the VCM-3 homepage •...
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Brüel & Kjær Vibro │Instruction VCM-3 - Homepage The VCM-3 Homepage How to update a user Click the line with the user to be edited. Change Name and/or Password for the user. You cannot change user level. Observe the Password rules when defining the new password.
VCM-3 – Log Files 2.15 Upon functional problems with the VCM-3 the log file system can be consulted. VCM-3 has several log files each related to a particular subject. Check the log files which you suspect may relate to the problem.
Brüel & Kjær Vibro technical support. • Storage location: This setting allows the user to specify whether the VCM-3 internal memory (4GB) or external memory – SD Card or USB memory shall be used. In this case the size of the history buffer only depends upon the capacity of the external storage media.
The VCM-3 Homepage 2.18 Information In this section you can find a quick overview of the VCM-3 Homepage functionality. You may also upload your own information to service technicians. View information Click the link representing the information you want to view in the information field.
Brüel & Kjær Vibro │Instruction VCM-3 - Homepage connection Appendix 1: Changing laptop network connection Below instruction tells how to change laptop network settings to be able to connect to the VCM-3. NOTE! IP address of the laptop and VCM-3 device must be different.
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Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/Ipv4) Properties window and fill in the address in the format as shown below. Note that the numbers in the red square (1) must not be the same as the used for the VCM-3. The empty fields should remain empty.
Appendix 2: Notation for IP address ranges Appendix 2: Notation for IP address ranges The VCM-3 uses the so-called CIDR notation to specify IP address ranges (CIDR - Classless Inter- Domain Routing). Example: 192.168.100.14/24 represents the IPv4 address 192.168.100.14 and its associated routing prefix 192.168.100.0, or equivalently, its subnet mask 255.255.255.0, which has 24 leading 1-bits.
Type of USB Storage Any size storage device utilizing the USB interface should connect to the VCM-3. FAT32 and ext4 are supported presently by the VCM-3 configuration.