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Using the GSX GUI
It's assumed Synch from a GSX Surface was selected to begin using the
GSX GUI. If no GSX consoles are detected in the Select A Surface to
Connect To and Synch From windows, click Rescan. If still none are listed,
click Select NIC... to open the Network Setup window to view the NIC IP
address. If the wrong IP address is shown, click Select NIC...and select the
correct NIC from the dropdown list, then close these windows.
If the correct NIC is shown, confirm that the admin PC, Mix Engine
Blade, GSX Surface Host, and the GSX Surface are all connected to a
configured 1GB Ethernet switch. The ports used by the admin PC and each
GSX component must be configured as access ports.
Note: Windows Firewall and/or anti-virus apps running on that PC
can prevent the admin PC from seeing multicast messages from
the WNIP system, which is how WNIP devices communicate, so the
GSX GUI and Navigator must be added as white programs to allow
them to send/receive multicast messages thru the Firewall.
Once the GSX GUI connects to the WNIP system, the status bar at the
bottom of the GSX GUI should show that it's connected to your GSX
Surface Host by showing this message at the right end of the status bar:
The Locator tab should then list the devices networked in your WNIP
system. The Locator list of devices can be sorted by clicking on a heading.
If you click on Product you should see at least four GSX entries for: the
GSX Surface Host (default name GSX-HOST), the two to six Input Panels
in the GSX (the smallest GSX frame: GSX-1208, has two Input Panels,
while the largest frame: GSX-2424, has six Input Panels) which are
numbered left-to-right in the frame (e.g., GSX1, GSX2, etc.) and the
Surface's Master/Monitor Panel which has the next higher GSX number
(like GSX3). The Mix Engine's Product is IP-88e32 and its default name is
GSX-Eng.
When multiple GSX consoles are in your system, you can identify the Mix
Engine for your new GSX console by its IP address, which was assigned
during the GSX Mix Engine Blade Setup (page 13). In Figure 3-31, the
GSX-Eng device's IP address is 192.168.87.120 since its Blade ID was set
as 20 during the Blade setup.
Note: The Locator tab can be used to edit the default IP address
assigned to the GSX Surface Host, which is 192.168.87.90, to a
unique system IP address, typically assigned 100 above the Mix
Engine's IP address. As shown in Figure 3-31, the Mix Engine's last
octet is .120 so the Surface Host's IP address is changed from .90
to .220 by highlighting the GSX Surface Host row then editing its
IP address in the Properties section of the Set Selected Device
Properties section, as outlined below. Once the new IP address is
entered click Apply then Reboot to restart the Surface Host to use
that new IP address.
We recommend changing all new WNIP devices from their factory
default settings to avoid future IP addressing conflicts when a new
device gets added to the system.
Figure 3-31 GSX GUI, Locator Tab View
Setting the Surface Host's Mix Engine
At this point the GSX GUI should be connected to the Surface Host, and
Locator should be showing the WNIP devices in the system. But, before
configuring the GSX Surface, the WNIP system must be scanned to update
and save the system information. Once this is done, the Mix Engine Blade,
which has the GSX Surface Host mounted inside, can then be assigned.
You do this by running a System Scan. Select the menu item:
WheatNet-IP
System
and
Scan.
The
WheatNet-IP
window, shown on the next page, opens. If
the Host Blade IP Address is not populated,
enter the IP address of the Mix Engine or any
Blade in the system, like 192.168.87.101,
then click Start Scan. The app then queries
that Blade to gather its system information,
as shown by the various messages in the log
window.
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System
System
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