Basic Setup Steps: A Guide To This Section And Other Resources - Extron electronics IP Link Pro xi IPL EXP PDU4H User Manual

Basic Setup Steps: a Guide to this Section and Other Resources

NOTE: GC projects can be created offline and uploaded to the hardware at a later date.
Follow the steps in
up a control processor using GC is as follows:
Figure 11.
Setup Checklist
Within Global Configurator
(GC Professional or
GC Plus mode):
Upload security certi cates, private keys.
Create a new GC Professional or GC Plus project
No
Add IPL EXP expansion interfaces, touchpanels, other
interfaces, or button panels (if used) to the project.
Overall Configuration Steps
IPL EXP PDU4H • Software-based Configuration and Control
starting on page 7. The overall process for setting
Configure the IP settings
of the control processor,
expansion interface,
NBP network button panels, and
TouchLink Pro touchpanels.
If desired or required, use
Toolbelt or other software to con gure
security settings for 802.1X, SSL.
and add the control processor to it.
Is
a GUI layout
required?
Con gure ports on the
control processor.
Create monitors, schedules, timers,
macros, and local variables.
Import GUI layouts and con gure the
touchpanels or other interfaces.
Save the project.
Build and upload the con guration to
the control processor.
Test the system, make adjustments,
nalize con guration.
See Network
Network
Communication Setup
Communication Setup
on page 10.
Yes
Use GUI Designer to create
and save GUI layout designs
as needed.
Or...
Download existing
GUI layouts from identical
touchpanels.
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