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Atop ABLELink GW21C-MAXI User Manual

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Atop ABLELink
Ethernet-Serial
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Server GW21C-MAXI
User Manual
Version 1.1
Updated on 2004/03/5
Tel: 886-3-5508137
Fax: 886-3-5508131
www.atop.com.tw

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  • Page 1 Atop ABLELink Ethernet-Serial ® Server GW21C-MAXI User Manual Version 1.1 Updated on 2004/03/5 Tel: 886-3-5508137 Fax: 886-3-5508131 www.atop.com.tw...

  • Page 2: Important Announcement

    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: Fcc Warning

    Use only shielded cables to connect other devices to this equipment by RS-232 / RS-485 ports. Be cautioned that changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void your authority to operate the equipment. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 2 / 50...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    TCP/IP U ..............36 TANDARD TILITY PING OMMAND 7.2 U ............36 SE MONITOR ONFIGURATION TILITY ROGRAM 7.3 U TCPTEST.EXE TCPTEST2.EXE S ..........37 AMPLE ROGRAM Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 3 / 50...
  • Page 5 IRMWARE APPENDIX D CONFIGURATION UTILITY................47 D.1 R ......................... 47 UN THE UTILITY D.2 D ..................47 ETECT PERATIONAL EVICES D.3 C ......................47 ONFIGURE EVICES Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 4 / 50...

  • Page 6: Introduction

    RS-232/RS-485 serial communication has its limitations. For one, it is hard to transfer data through a long distance. With Atop GW21C-MAXI, 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 7: Application Connectivity

    TCP Server mode Host GW21C-MAXI RS-232/RS-485 TCP Client mode Remote Control Host GW21C-MAXI GW21C-MAXI GW21C-MAXI RS-232 RS-232 RS-232 /RS-485 /RS-485 /RS-485 Card Reader Card Reader Card Reader Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 6 / 50...
  • Page 8 User manual Version 1.1 ABLELink Ethernet-Serial Server GW21C-MAXI ® UDP mode GW21C-MAXI RS-232/RS-485 Display Tunneling mode GW21C-MAXI GW21C-MAXI RS-232/RS-485 RS-232/RS-485 Touch Screen Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 7 / 50...

  • Page 9: Nomenclature And Settings

    Mode switch to change the operating mode from the factory default settings to your desired mode. GW21C-MAXI can be setup either RS-232, RS-485, RS-422 or Console configuration mode by MODE Switch. Mode RS-232 CONSOLE RS-485 RS-422 Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 8 / 50...

  • Page 10: Hardware Installation

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

  • Page 11: Tcp/Ip Port Number

    TCP port 4660 of GW21C-MAXI, data being sent to this TCP connection from your application program are transparent to the COM1 of GW21C-MAXI. Vice versa is also true. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 10 / 50...

  • Page 12: Software Configuration

    Note: You can press the reset button of GW21C-MAXI to reset the password to the default value. 2. After verifying the password, the following terminal screen appears. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 11 / 50...
  • Page 13 This page gives you the general information of GW2iC-MAXI including IP and MAC address, SNMP information, kernel and AP version, and connection status of the device. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 12 / 50...
  • Page 14 2. If you want to change the password, please type the old password in the “Please input old password” field, type the new password in the “Please input new password” and the “Please verify new password” fields. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 13 / 50...
  • Page 15 GW21C-MAXI as 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 GW21C-MAXI. Note: IP filtering function is disabled if setting FILTER_IP to “0.0.0.0”. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 14 / 50...
  • Page 16 User manual Version 1.1 ABLELink Ethernet-Serial Server GW21C-MAXI ® Configure GW21C-MAXI as TCP client, the destination IP is 10.0.29.123, destination port is 666. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 15 / 50...
  • Page 17 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 © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 18 TCP/IP Ethernet connection is broken, serial data collected from serial device will be kept in GW21C-MAXI, once TCP/IP connection is resumed, the serial data will be sent through Ethernet connection, you can disable it if you wish. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 17 / 50...
  • Page 19 By default packet delimiter timer is 1 ms, you can change timer shown in the following figure: You can also choose character pattern as the packet delimiter indicated in the following figure: Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 18 / 50...

  • Page 20: Configuration Set By Hyper Terminal Console Utility

    7. The following configuration operations are totally the same as those by Telnet. 8. After finishing console settings, power off GW21C-MAXI, put SW1 and SW2 back to the previous setting. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 19 / 50...

  • Page 21: 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 © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 20 / 50...
  • Page 22 Password” and the “Verified Password” fields, and then click on “Save Configuration” to update the password. Note: You can press the reset key of product to reset password to the default value. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 21 / 50...
  • Page 23 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 GW21C-MAXI. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 22 / 50...
  • Page 24 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 © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 25 Configure GW21C-MAXI as TCP client, the destination IP is 10.0.29.11, destination port is 4660. Configure GW21C-MAXI as UDP mode. Local port is 666, destination IP is 10.0.50.100 and destination port is 4660. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 24 / 50...
  • Page 26 User manual Version 1.1 ABLELink Ethernet-Serial Server GW21C-MAXI ® 2. Click on “Save Configuration” to save the changes. 3. If the update is successful, the following screen appears. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 25 / 50...

  • Page 27: Virtual Com Mode

    (Virtual COM Port) 4.5.1 Setup of a virtual COM driver Correspondence OS Atop Virtual COM driver can be used on Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 SP5 or later, Windows Me or Windows 98, Microsoft NT/2000 Terminal Server. Cautions on Use Atop Virtual COM supports firmware AP v3.4 and above of ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Servers.

  • Page 28: Virtual Com Communication

    Make sure you have turned off all anti-virus software before beginning the installation. Run AtopVcom.exe program included in the CD to install Atop Virtual COM for your operating system. In the end of the installation, please select one or two COM ports to become the Virtual COM ports.
  • Page 29 User manual Version 1.1 ABLELink Ethernet-Serial Server GW21C-MAXI ® Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 28 / 50...
  • Page 30 ® 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: At right is a sample Virtual COM Control Panel window.
  • Page 31 For COM Port Options, the settings must match the COM port behavior expected by the PC application that will use this COM port. The Configuration Wizard will recommend a combination of settings. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 30 / 50...

  • Page 32: Snmp Setup

    5. SNMP Setup 5.1 SNMP Network Management Platform Atop GW21C-MAXI 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 (GW21C-MAXI) information can be collected from running the management tools including IP address, DNS name, system descriptions and NIC information etc.
  • Page 33 1. The NetworkView tool is limited to information extracting and viewing only. 2. To modify the configurations please use the web server, Telnet or monitor.exe configuration utilities. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 32 / 50...

  • Page 34: Start Writing Your Own Applications

    For more information, please press Help in the program to get detail explanation. Note: Please be sure the Microsoft visual studio family software is installed on the computer. Otherwise the sample program will not run. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 33 / 50...

  • Page 35: Tcptest2 In Visual C

    ® Status Status TCPTEST2 in Visual C To start the program, please type in the following command in the command line prompt: TCPTEST2 IP_Address Port_Number Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 34 / 50...
  • Page 36 You can also use modem to connect to the serial server. Command "AT\Od" sends standard AT command to the modem which in return responds with "OK\0D\0A" message to the host application. Always use '=' then Enter key to exit the program. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 35 / 50...

  • Page 37: Diagnostics

    The system is configured as a TCP Client and not yet connected. The system is configured as an UDP. The TCP Server and is connected. The TCP Client and is connected. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 36 / 50...

  • Page 38: Use Tcptest.exe Or Tcptest2.Exe Sample Program

    Use sample programs TCPTEST.EXE and TCPTEST2.EXE that comes with the product CD or diskette to check on the status of GW21C-MAXI. Please refer to chapter 6.2 to run the sample programs. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.

  • Page 39: Appendix A: Gw21C-Maxi Ethernet-Serial Server Specifications

    COM port1 (Green) Power Requirement +9~30Vdc, 2.8 Watt Max Temperature Operation: 0℃ to 60℃ Storage: -20℃ to 85℃ Humidity 20%~90% non-condensing Housing 90mm(L) x 45mm(W) x 63mm(H) Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 38 / 50...

  • Page 40: 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 8 pin Mini DIN connector Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 39 / 50...
  • Page 41 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 42: Ethernet Port (Rj-45)

    Definition Pin1 Green-White Orange-White Pin2 Green Orange Pin3 Orange-White Green-White Pin4 Blue Blue Pin5 Blue-White Blue-White Pin6 Orange Green Pin7 Brown-White Brown-White Pin8 Brown Brown Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 41 / 50...

  • Page 43: Power Terminal Block Connector

    Table 1. RUN LED Message LAN LED Message Description LED Off No data is transmitting on Ethernet LED blinking Data is transmitting on Ethernet Table 2. LAN LED Message Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 42 / 50...

  • Page 44: Com Port Led

    Jumper JP1 pin1 and pin2 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 © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 43 / 50...

  • Page 45: Appendix B. Upgrade System Software

    ® Appendix B. Upgrade System Software After the new version of firmware is released, customers can download it from Atop web site at www.atop.com.tw. You can contact Atop sales person to request the newest product CD as well. You may decide to or not to upgrade the system’s firmware. To do so, please follow these instructions listed below.

  • Page 46: Critical Issues Of Upgrading

    GW21C-MAXI handshaking GW21C-MAXI ACK Start Address Error problem GW21C-MAXI ACK Length Error GW21C-MAXI Response Command Error Remote IP not found Configuration file Open configuration file failure Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 45 / 50...

  • Page 47: Appendix C. Hardware Configuration

    4. Download the correct AP firmware to GW21C-MAXI. 5. Remove the pin 1 and pin2 of jumper JP1 to enable AP firmware. 6. Close the case and continue your operations. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 46 / 50...

  • Page 48: Appendix D Configuration Utility

    You may use monitor.exe configuration utility to configure the settings of devices on the network. To do so, please follow the steps below. 1. Repeat the steps in the section of D.2 to bring up the devices information. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 47 / 50...
  • 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 monitor.exe version 2.4 and above requires gw21le.dll library to function properly. Copyright © 2004 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 © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 49 / 50...

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