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Atop ABLELink
Wireless Serial
®
Server SW5001
User Manual
Version 1.0
Updated on 2006/06/06
Tel: 886-3-5508137
Fax: 886-3-5508131
www.atop.com.tw

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  • Page 1 Atop ABLELink Wireless Serial ® Server SW5001 User Manual Version 1.0 Updated on 2006/06/06 Tel: 886-3-5508137 Fax: 886-3-5508131 www.atop.com.tw...
  • Page 2 The information contained in this document is the property of Atop Technologies, Inc. and is supplied for the sole purpose of the operation and maintenance of products of Atop Technologies, Inc. No part of this publication is to be used for any other purposes, and it is not to be reproduced, copied, disclosed, transmitted, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any human or computer language, in any form, by any means, in whole or in part, without the prior express written consent of Atop Technologies, Inc.
  • Page 3 This transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter. IEEE 802.11b/g operation of this product in the U.S.A. is firmware-limited to channels 1 through 11. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    APPENDIX B CONFIGURATION UTILITY ...........47 D.1 R ......................... 47 UN THE UTILITY D.2 D ..................47 ETECT PERATIONAL EVICES D.3 C ......................47 ONFIGURE EVICES Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 3 / 50...

  • Page 5: Introduction

    RS-232/RS-485 serial communication has its limitations. For one, it is hard to transfer data through a long distance. With Atop SW5001, it is possible to communicate with a remote device in the Intranet environment or even in the Internet and thus, increases the communication distance dramatically.

  • Page 6: Application Connectivity

    User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 1. 2 Application Connectivity Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 5 / 50...
  • Page 7 User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 6 / 50...

  • Page 8: Nomenclature And Settings

    SW5001 can be setup either RS-232, RS-485 or RS-422 mode by remote network tools, ex. Web browser and telnet. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 7 / 50...

  • Page 9: Hardware Installation

    SysContact of SNMP contact NOTE: Atop provides a default button to restore system settings including IP address, gateway IP address and subnet mask etc. to the defaults. Press and hold the default button for 5 seconds till the server reboots.

  • Page 10: Auto Ip

    It will supply for the unit with an IP address gateway address, and subnet mask. You may use Monitor.exe software to search network information automatically by putting a check on Auto IP on Dialog window. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 9 / 50...

  • Page 11: Tcp/Ip Port Number

    Telnet to SW5001 using command “Telnet IP_address”. For example Telnet 10.0.50.100 1. After Telnet to SW5001, system prompts for a password, the default password is null. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 10 / 50...
  • Page 12 2. The changes of networking parameters will take effect only when you exit and restart SW5001. 3. Select “1” from “Input choice and enter (0~5):” to enter overview page as following: Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 13 This page gives you the general information of SW5001 including IP and MAC address, SNMP information, kernel and AP version, and connection status of the device. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 12 / 50...
  • Page 14 1. Select “3” from “Input choice and enter (0~5):” the following screen appears. 2. If you want to change the password, please type the old password in the “Please input old password” Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 15 TCP server and the local port is 4660. IP filter is disabled by default, if IP filter is enabled, only source IP 10.0.0.154 can connect to SW5001. Note: IP filtering function is disabled if setting FILTER_IP to “0.0.0.0”. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 14 / 50...
  • Page 16 User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Configure SW5001 as TCP client, the destination IP is 10.0.29.123, destination port is 666. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 15 / 50...
  • Page 17 User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Configure SW5001 as UDP client, the local port is 4660, the destination IP is 10.0.29.254, destination port is 666. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 16 / 50...
  • Page 18 COM port alias name, set the baud rate and parity, determine number of data bit and stop bit, and decide if you want to use flow control and the type of flow control you want to use. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 19 TCP/IP Ethernet connection is broken, serial data collected from serial device will be kept in SW5001, once TCP/IP connection is resumed, the serial data will be sent through Ethernet connection, you can disable it if you wish. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 18 / 50...
  • Page 20 SW5001 provides two ways of parameter setting as inter character timer and terminator. By default packet delimiter timer is 0 ms, you can change timer shown in the following figure: Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 19 / 50...
  • Page 21 User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 20 / 50...
  • Page 22 You can also choose character pattern as the packet delimiter indicated in the following figure: Accessing Wireless LAN setting Select “5” from “Input choice and enter (0~5):” the following screen appears. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 21 / 50...
  • Page 23 ESSID (extended service set identifier) and WEP (wireless encryption protocol) are if you use them. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 22 / 50...
  • Page 24 Wireless LAN Transmission Rate You can set SW5001 transmission rate as 1 Mbps, 2Mbps, 5.5Mbps, 11Mbps, or full auto based on 802.11 standard shown in the following figure: Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 23 / 50...
  • Page 25 Wireless LAN Ad-hoc channel You have to select the same channel for two wireless devices to talk to each other as indicated in the following figure: Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 24 / 50...
  • Page 26 BSSID (basic service set identification) which contains a single access point (AP) and several other nodes. The following diagram illustrates this concept: Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 25 / 50...
  • Page 27 SW5001, it will not connect to either of them, in this case you have to specifically input the ESSID of one of the access points for connection. From telnet you can input ESSID as indicated in the following figure: Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 28 For security reason, SW5001 can set up to use WEP key of 40 bits or 128 bits to securely communicate in the wireless network. Telnet WEP key set up screen is as following: Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 29 User manual Version 1.0 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server SW5001 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 28 / 50...

  • Page 30: Configuration Set By Web Browser

    2. The following authentication screen appears. Please type in user name and password then click on “OK”. The user name is admin and password is null by default. 3. The following overview page appears. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 29 / 50...
  • Page 31 Password” and the “Verified Password” fields. Then click on “Save Configuration” to update the password. Note: You can press the default key of product to reset password to the default value. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 30 / 50...
  • Page 32 Enable SNMP by checking “Enable”, fill in network identification information under SNMP field and click on the “Save Configuration” button to save the changes, please notice that the setting will not become effective until you restart SW5001. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 31 / 50...
  • Page 33 Click on the “COM1” link and the following screen appears. Fill in COM1 parameter information under COM1 field then click on “Save Configuration” button to save the changes. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 34 “pair connection” which is indicated in the following figure to cope with any type of serial device. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 33 / 50...
  • Page 35 Configure SW5001 as UDP mode. Local port is 666, destination IP is 10.0.50.100 and destination port is 4660. 2. Click on “Save Configuration” to save the changes. 3. If the update is successful, the following screen appears. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 34 / 50...
  • Page 36 SW5001 is connected to, it also allows you to configure SW5001’s wireless topology, ESSID and WEP security. In addition, the BSS Quality and Signal Strength will indicate you the situation of signal. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 35 / 50...

  • Page 37: Virtual Com Mode

    Virtual COM driver mode for windows converts COM data to IP data to control the RS-232C port on a SW5001 via the IP. By creating Virtual COM ports on the PC, Atop Virtual COM redirects the communications from the Virtual COM ports to an IP address and port number on a SW5001 that connects the serial line device to the network.

  • Page 38: Virtual Com Communication

    Atop Virtual COM supports firmware AP v3.4 and above of ABLELink Wirless Serial Servers. Limitation Atop Virtual COM driver provides user to select up to 256 COM ports as Virtual COM ports in a monitoring PC. User can select them from a list of COM ports, which is from COM1 up to COM256.
  • Page 39 COM1, then enable virtual COM as shown in the following figure: 4.5.2.2 Run Serial/IP for ATOP program on monitoring PC In the Window Start Menu, select the Serial/IP for ATOP program group and select Serial/IP for ATOP Configuration. The configuration window is shown as following: Copyright ©...
  • Page 40 4. For Server Credentials, the default is No Login Required. If your serial server does require a login by the Virtual COM Redirector, the Virtual COM Redirector needs to provide Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.

  • Page 41: Snmp Setup

    5. SNMP Setup 5.1 SNMP Network Management Platform Atop SW5001 is an SNMP device that allows many popular SNMP network management platforms such as HP OpenView and SunNet Manager to conduct monitoring on the device. Depending on the network management tools you are using, device (SW5001) information can be collected from running the management tools including IP address, DNS name, system descriptions and NIC information etc.

  • Page 42: Appendix A: Sw5001 Wireless Serial Server Specifications

    Software Protocols: ICMP, IP, TCP, UDP, DHCP Client, Telnet, DNS, SNMP, HTTP, SMTP, SNTP Utilities: Windows utility for Windows 98/2000/XP/2003 Virtual COM for Windows 98/2000/XP/2003 Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 41 / 50...

  • Page 43: Software Specifications

    RS-232/RS-485 receiving buffer size = 4K bytes RS-232/RS-485 transmitting buffer size = 4K bytes A.3 Connector Pin Assignments A.3.1 COM Port 1. 8 pin Mini DIN connector Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 42 / 50...
  • Page 44 SG (Signal Ground) SG (Signal Ground) RTS/R- RTS/R- CTS/T- N/A(reserved for Atop devices) Atop provides Mini DIN connector to DB9 connector cable, the pin assignments of DB9 connector is shown in the following table: RS-232 RS-485 RS-485 Pin# Full Duplex...

  • Page 45: Power Terminal Block Connector

    RS-485 only uses RTS/R- and TxD/R+ for data communication while RS-232 or RS-422 uses RTS/R-, TxD/R+, CTS/T- and RxD/T+ for communicating data. A.3.2 Power terminal block connector Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 44 / 50...

  • Page 46: Led Indication For Link Status

    Description Message LED Off No data is transmitting on Ethernet LED blinking Data is transmitting on Ethernet Table 2. LAN LED Message COM Port LED Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 45 / 50...
  • Page 47 Jumper JP7 and JP8 are short to disable AP firmware in the flash memory. LED blinking (rate: 0.5Sec) AP firmware is running Table 4. RUN LED Message Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 46 / 50...

  • Page 48: Appendix B Configuration Utility

    2. Select the device you want to configure from the IP Address column, click on the Config button, a configuration window will popup as shown in Figure D2: Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 49 3. After you click the “Configure Now” button, the target device will return an ACK message indicating the modification is successful as shown in the following: Please note monitor25.exe version 2.5 and above requires gw21le.dll library to function properly. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 48 / 50...
  • Page 50 Indicates the AP version of the responding device. Model Indicates the model number of the responding device. This field is only available for monitor.exe version 2.0 and above. Copyright © 2006 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 49 / 50...

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