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GW51C-MAXI Serial Server
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Version 1.4
Updated on February, 2008.
TEL: 886-3-5508137
FAX: 886-3-5508131
http://www.atop.com.tw

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  • Page 1 ® ABLELink GW51C-MAXI Serial Server User’s Manual Version 1.4 Updated on February, 2008. TEL: 886-3-5508137 FAX: 886-3-5508131 http://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 ones authority to operate the equipment. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 2 / 68...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    ROGRAM 6.2.1 TCPTEST in Visual Basic ......................38 6.2.2 TCPTEST2 in Visual C ......................39 7. DIAGNOSTICS......................41 7.1 U TCP/IP U ..............41 TANDARD TILITY PING OMMAND Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 3 / 68...
  • Page 5 ISABLE YSTEM IRMWARE APPENDIX D CONFIGURATION UTILITY .............52 D.1. S ..................52 ERIAL ANAGER NTRODUCTION D.2. I ........................52 NTERFACE D.3. F ........................52 UNCTIONS Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 4 / 68...

  • Page 6: Introduction

    With GW51C-MAXI Serial Server, 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. GW51C-MAXI Serial Server from Atop Technologies Inc. offers one RS-232/ RS-485 port, one RJ45 Ethernet and Watch-Dog Timer etc.

  • Page 7: Application Connectivity

    Network to actively establish a connection with an applications server –the host computer. After the connection is established, data can flow in both directions (TCP Client Mode) Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 6 / 68...
  • Page 8 GW51C-MAXI Serial Server’s and their Ethernet connections (Tunneling Mode). This mode is particularly useful when two serial devices are far away, because their communication distance is limited to 15 m. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 7 / 68...
  • Page 9 User manual Version 1.4 GW51C-MAXI Serial Server Tunneling Mode Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 8 / 68...

  • Page 10: Hardware Description

    GW51C-MAXI Serial Server 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. 9 / 68...

  • Page 11: Installation Procedures

    GW51C-MAXI Serial Server finds those two unmatched, it will reboot and change to the new IP address which was set by ARP –s command. The following example uses ARP to assign a static IP address of Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.

  • Page 12: Auto Ip With Dhcp

    DHCP. It will supply for the unit with an IP address gateway address, and subnet mask. You may use SerialManager software to search network information automatically by putting a check on Auto IP on Dialog window. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 11 / 68...

  • Page 13: Tcp/Ip Port Number

    TCP connection from your application program are transparent to the COM1 of GW51C-MAXI Serial Server. Vice versa is also true. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 12 / 68...

  • Page 14: Software Configuration

    1. After telnet to GW51C-MAXI Serial Server, system prompts for a password, the default password is null (leave it blank). Note: One can press the default button of GW51C-MAXI Serial Server to reset the password to the default value. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 13 / 68...
  • Page 15 SNMP information, kernel and AP version, and connection status of the device. Networking Select “2” from “Input choice and enter (0~4):” to enter Networking page as following: Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 14 / 68...
  • Page 16 2. If you want to change the password, please enter in the old password in the “Please input old password” field, enter in 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. 15 / 68...
  • Page 17 GW51C-MAXI Serial Server 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 GW51C-MAXI Serial Server. 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. 16 / 68...
  • Page 18 User manual Version 1.4 GW51C-MAXI Serial Server Configure GW51C-MAXI Serial Server 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. 17 / 68...
  • Page 19 User manual Version 1.4 GW51C-MAXI Serial Server Configure GW51C-MAXI Serial Server as UDP client, the local port is 4660, the destination IP is 10.0.29.254, destination port is 666. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 18 / 68...
  • Page 20 COM port alias name, set the baud rate and parity, determine number of data bit and stop bit, and decide if one want to use flow control and the enter in of flow control one want to use. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 21 GW51C-MAXI Serial Server, once TCP/IP connection is resumed, the serial data will be sent through Ethernet connection, one can disable it if one wish. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 20 / 68...
  • Page 22 GW51C-MAXI Serial Server provides two ways of parameter setting as inter character timer and terminator. By default packet delimiter timer is 1 ms, one can change timer shown in the following figure: Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 21 / 68...
  • Page 23 User manual Version 1.4 GW51C-MAXI Serial Server One 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. 22 / 68...

  • Page 24: Configure By Hyper Terminal Console Utility

    At present time baud rate is fixed at 9600, 8, n, 1, without flow control for console port communication, RS-232C parameters of ones computer COM port and GW51C-MAXI Serial Server must be the same. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 23 / 68...

  • Page 25: Configure By Web Browser

    2. The following authentication screen appears. Please enter in user name and password then click on OK. The user name is admin and password is null by default. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 26 User manual Version 1.4 GW51C-MAXI Serial Server 3. The following overview page appears. Change the password 1. Click on the “Security” link and the following screen appears. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 25 / 68...
  • Page 27 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 one restart GW51C-MAXI Serial Server. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 26 / 68...
  • Page 28 1. 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 29 Ethernet network, i.e. pair connection mode, one can choose “pair connection” which is indicated in the following figure to cope with any type of serial device. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 30 Configure GW51C-MAXI Serial Server as UDP mode. Local port is 4660, destination IP is 10.0.29.254 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 © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 29 / 68...

  • Page 31: Virtual Com Mode

    Virtual COM driver mode for windows converts COM data to LAN data to control the RS-232C port on a GW51C-MAXI Serial Server via the LAN. 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 GW51C-MAXI Serial Server that connects the serial line device to the network.

  • Page 32: Virtual Com Communication

    Virtual COM supports firmware AP v3.4 and above of ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Servers. Limitation Atop Virtual COM driver provides user to select up to 256 COM ports as Virtual COM ports in a SerialManager PC. User can select them from a list of COM ports, which is from COM1 up to COM256.
  • Page 33 Or one can enable Virtual COM through telnet configuration by setting COM1 as TCP server, and enter in the local port number for COM1, then enable virtual COM as shown in the following figure: Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 34 GW51C-MAXI Serial Server 4.5.2.2 Run Serial/IP for ATOP program on 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 © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc.
  • Page 35 For Server Credentials, the default is No Login Required. If one serial server does require a login by the Virtual COM Redirector, the Virtual COM Redirector needs to provide a username Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 36 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. 35 / 68...

  • Page 37: Snmp Setup

    5. SNMP Setup 5.1 SNMP Network Management Platform Atop GW51C-MAXI Serial Server is an SNMP device that allows many popular SNMP Network management platforms such as HP Open View and Sun Net Manager to conduct on the SerialManager. Depending on the network management tools one are using, device (GW51C-MAXI Serial Server) information can be collected from running the management tools including IP address, DNS name, system descriptions and NIC information etc.
  • Page 38 1. The NetworkView tool is limited to information extracting and viewing only. 2. To modify the configurations please use the web server, Telnet or SerialManager configuration utilities. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 37 / 68...

  • Page 39: Start Writing Ones 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. 38 / 68...

  • Page 40: Tcptest2 In Visual C

    Status Status 6.2.2 TCPTEST2 in Visual C To start the program, please enter 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. 39 / 68...
  • Page 41 "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. 40 / 68...

  • Page 42: Diagnostics

    Use SerialManager configuration program that comes with the product CD or diskette to check on the status of GW51C-MAXI Serial Server. The status and version can be read from the tool. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.

  • Page 43: 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 GW51C-MAXI Serial Server. Please refer to chapter 6.2 to run the sample programs. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 42 / 68...

  • Page 44: Appendix A: Gw51C-Maxi Serial Server Specifications

    COM port1 Power Requirement +9~30Vdc, 2.8 Watt Max Temperature Operation: 0℃ to 60℃ Storage: -40℃ to 70℃ Humidity 20%~90% non-condensing Housing 91mm(L) x 46mm(W) x 76mm(H) Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 43 / 68...

  • Page 45: 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. 44 / 68...
  • Page 46 User manual Version 1.4 GW51C-MAXI Serial Server 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 2 wire, Half Duplex 4 wire, Full Duplex...

  • Page 47: 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. 46 / 68...

  • Page 48: Power Terminal Block Connector

    A.4.2 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. 47 / 68...

  • Page 49: 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. 48 / 68...

  • Page 50: Appendix B. Upgrade System Software

    GW51C-MAXI Serial Server 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. One can contact Atop sales person to request the newest product CD as well.

  • Page 51: Critical Issues Of Upgrading

    ACK Start Address Error MAXI handshaking problem GW51C- ACK Length Error MAXI GW51C- Response Command Error MAXI Remote IP not found Configuration file Open configuration file failure Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 50 / 68...

  • Page 52: Appendix C. Hardware Configuration

    4. Download the correct AP firmware to GW51C-MAXI Serial Server. 5. Remove the pin 1 and pin2 of jumper JP1 to enable AP firmware. 6. Close the case and continue ones operations. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 51 / 68...

  • Page 53: Appendix D Configuration Utility

    Appendix D Configuration Utility D.1. SerialManager Introduction SerialManager, developed by ATOP, is a special tool for device management and configuration, and can realize the daily management on various ATOP network devices for address search, device positioning, parameter configuring, firmware downloading and so on.
  • Page 54 User manual Version 1.4 GW51C-MAXI Serial Server Or, select by clicking a button on the toolbar, as below: Rescan Broadcast Search Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 53 / 68...
  • Page 55 Once Search by IP Address is selected, an interface will pop up as below: Here user may have two options: Select an IP address to search or Search device in the range of IP address. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 54 / 68...
  • Page 56 MAC address D3.1.4 Rescan Once the user click the Rescan button on the toolbar, the SerialManager shall re-search devices by using the current search way. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 55 / 68...
  • Page 57 User manual Version 1.4 GW51C-MAXI Serial Server D3.2 Firmware This function is applied to downloading a firmware into a selected device. Upgrade from disk Upgrade from disk Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 56 / 68...
  • Page 58 The user can also select several same devices at one time, and realize the firmware updating for them by selecting Apply for all selected devices have same model. Download Parameter Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 57 / 68...
  • Page 59 Here three functions are mainly supplied, including: Login, Logout and Change Password, shown as the figure below: Login Logout Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 58 / 68...
  • Page 60 This function is applied to modifying the password for logging in any network device, but can only be realized after a successful log-in, shown as the figure below: Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 61 Locate Network … Import Export Port … Setting Setting … Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 60 / 68...
  • Page 62 The user can modify the IP address of any selected device, shown as the figure below: D3.4.2 COM Port … ATOP has developed various network products, and some of the ATOP devices are specially supplied to some serial-port servers, while this function is applied to the configuration of COM port parameters.
  • Page 63 The user can set each corresponded connecting mode and the working parameter by clicking the button "Option", shown as the figure below: Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 64 And the user can erase the Flash through the submenu option Erase Flash or clicking the Erase Flash button on the toolbar when the memory capacity is to be used up or the history data are unnecessary to be saved. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 63 / 68...
  • Page 65 The user can also select several devices at one time, and lead the parameter information of a standard parameter file into all the selected devices by selecting Apply for all selected devices have same model. Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 64 / 68...
  • Page 66 Some devices are supplied with the function of virtual serial port, and the user can carry out any related setting through the submenu option "Virtual COM", shown as the figure below: Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 67 "View", such as: display in sequence of device module name, or display in sequence of IP address and so on, shown as the figure below: Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 68 User manual Version 1.4 GW51C-MAXI Serial Server D3.6 Help This function is mainly applied to displaying some help information of the SerialManager, shown as the figure below: Copyright © 2004 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 67 / 68...

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