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Atop ABLELink
Serial-Ethernet
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Server GW51W-
MAXI
User Manual
Version 1.1
Updated on 2004/08/18
Tel: 886-3-5508137
Fax: 886-3-5508131
www.atop.com.tw

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  • Page 1 Atop ABLELink Serial-Ethernet ® Server GW51W- MAXI User Manual Version 1.1 Updated on 2004/08/18 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

    Be cautioned that changes or modifications not approved by the party responsible for compliance could void your authority to operate the equipment. ATOP declared that GW51W- is limited in ch1~ch11 by specified firmware controlled in USA. MAXI Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 2 / 63...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    TILITY ROGRAM 7.3 U TCPTEST.EXE TCPTEST2.EXE S ..........48 AMPLE ROGRAM APPENDIX A: SERIAL-ETHERNET SERVER GW51W- MAXI SPECIFICATIONS .................49 A.1. H ....................49 ARDWARE PECIFICATIONS Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 3 / 63...
  • Page 5 APPENDIX D CONFIGURATION UTILITY ...........60 D.1 R ......................... 60 UN THE UTILITY D.2 D ..................60 ETECT PERATIONAL EVICES D.3 C ......................60 ONFIGURE EVICES Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 4 / 63...

  • Page 6: Introduction

    RS-232/RS-485 port and data being received from RS-232/RS-485 port is sent to the Ethernet (TCP/IP) transparently. In the computer integration manufacturing or industrial automation area, Atop GW51W- MAXI Serial-Ethernet Server is used for field devices to direct connect to Ethernet network. Terminal Server...

  • Page 7: Application Connectivity

    User manual Version 1.1 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server GW51W- MAXI 1. 2 Application Connectivity Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 6 / 63...
  • Page 8 User manual Version 1.1 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server GW51W- MAXI Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 7 / 63...

  • Page 9: Nomenclature And Settings

    Mode switch to change the operating mode from the factory default settings to your desired mode. GW51W- can be setup either RS-232, RS-485, RS-422 or Console configuration mode by MODE MAXI Switch. Mode RS-232 CONSOLE RS-485 RS-422 Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 8 / 63...

  • Page 10: 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 11: Auto Ip

    DHCP. 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 © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 10 / 63...

  • Page 12: Tcp/Ip Port Number

    “Telnet IP_address”. MAXI For example Telnet 10.0.50.100 1. After Telnet to GW51W- , system prompts for a password, the default password is null. MAXI Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 11 / 63...
  • Page 13 2. The changes of networking parameters will take effect only when you exit and restart GW51W- MAXI 3. Select “1” from “Input choice and enter (0~5):” to enter overview page as following: Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 12 / 63...
  • Page 14 This page gives you the general information of GW51W- including IP and MAC address, SNMP MAXI information, kernel and AP version, and connection status of the device. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 13 / 63...
  • Page 15 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 © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 16 TCP server and the local port is 4660. IP filter is disabled by default, if IP filter is enabled, MAXI only source IP 10.0.0.154 can connect to GW51W- MAXI Note: IP filtering function is disabled if setting FILTER_IP to “0.0.0.0”. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 15 / 63...
  • Page 17 User manual Version 1.1 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server GW51W- MAXI Configure GW51W- as TCP client, the destination IP is 10.0.29.123, destination port is 666. MAXI Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 16 / 63...
  • Page 18 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server GW51W- MAXI Configure GW51W- as UDP client, the local port is 4660, the destination IP is 10.0.29.254, destination MAXI port is 666. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 17 / 63...
  • Page 19 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 © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 20 GW51W- , once TCP/IP connection is resumed, the serial data will be sent through Ethernet MAXI connection, you can disable it if you wish. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 19 / 63...
  • Page 21 MAXI character timer and terminator. By default packet delimiter timer is 0 ms, you can change timer shown in the following figure: Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 20 / 63...
  • Page 22 User manual Version 1.1 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server GW51W- MAXI Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 21 / 63...
  • Page 23 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 © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 22 / 63...
  • Page 24 ESSID (extended service set identifier) and WEP (wireless encryption protocol) are if you use them. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 23 / 63...
  • Page 25 You can set GW51W- transmission rate as 1 Mbps, 2Mbps, 5.5Mbps, 11Mbps, or full auto based on MAXI 802.11 standard shown in the following figure: Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 24 / 63...
  • Page 26 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 © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 25 / 63...
  • Page 27 BSSID (basic service set identification) which contains a single access point (AP) and several other nodes. The following diagram illustrates this concept: Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 26 / 63...
  • Page 28 , it will not connect to either of them, in this case you have to specifically input the ESSID of MAXI one of the access points for connection. From telnet you can input ESSID as indicated in the following figure: Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 27 / 63...
  • Page 29 WEP key of 40 bits or 128 bits to securely MAXI communicate in the wireless network. Telnet WEP key set up screen is as following: Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 28 / 63...

  • Page 30: Configuration Set By Hyper Terminal Console Utility

    5. Open a hyper terminal program from your computer Start menu -> Programs -> Accessories -> Communication -> hyper terminal, set COM1 parameters as follows. Baud rate : 9600bps Data bit: 8 bits Parity: None Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 29 / 63...
  • Page 31 7. The following configuration operations are totally the same as those configure by telnet. 8. After finishing console settings, power off GW51W- , put SW1 and SW2 back to the previous MAXI setting. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 30 / 63...

  • Page 32: 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 © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 31 / 63...
  • Page 33 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 © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 32 / 63...
  • Page 34 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 GW51W- MAXI Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 33 / 63...
  • Page 35 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 © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 36 Ethernet network, i.e. pair connection mode, you can choose “pair connection” which is indicated in the following figure to cope with any type of serial device. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 35 / 63...
  • Page 37 UDP mode. Local port is 666, destination IP is 10.0.50.100 and destination MAXI port is 4660. 2. Click on “Save Configuration” to save the changes. 3. If the update is successful, the following screen appears. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 36 / 63...
  • Page 38 MAXI GW51W- ’s wireless topology, ESSID and WEP security. In addition, the BSS Quality and Signal MAXI Strength will indicate you the situation of signal. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 37 / 63...

  • Page 39: Virtual Com Mode

    Virtual COM driver mode for windows converts COM data to LAN data to control the RS-232C port on a GW51W- via the LAN. By creating Virtual COM ports on the PC, Atop Virtual COM redirects the MAXI communications from the Virtual COM ports to an IP address and port number on a GW51W-...

  • Page 40: Virtual Com Communication

    Atop 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 monitoring PC. User can select them from a list of COM ports, which is from COM1 up to COM256.
  • Page 41 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 42 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 © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.

  • Page 43: Snmp Setup

    Depending on the network management tools you are using, device (GW51W- ) information can be MAXI collected from running the management tools including IP address, DNS name, system descriptions and NIC information etc. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 42 / 63...

  • Page 44: Using Networkview As An Example

    2. Click on the button to open a new file. The following screen appears, in the Addresses field, type in the IP address range to search. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 43 / 63...
  • Page 45 The NetworkView tool is limited to information extracting and viewing only. To modify the configurations please use the web server, Telnet or monitor.exe configuration utilities. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 44 / 63...

  • Page 46: 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 © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 45 / 63...

  • Page 47: Tcptest2 In Visual C

    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 © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 46 / 63...

  • Page 48: 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 © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 47 / 63...

  • Page 49: 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 GW51W- . Please refer to chapter 6.2 to run the sample programs. MAXI Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 48 / 63...

  • Page 50: Appendix A: Gw51W- Maxi

    COM port x 1 9~30VDC, 220mA@12V Power Requirement 0℃ to 60℃ Temperature Operation: -40℃ to 85℃ Storage: Humidity 20%~70% non-condensing Housing 91mm(L) x 46mm(W) x 76mm(H) Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 49 / 63...

  • Page 51: User Manual Version

    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 © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 50 / 63...
  • Page 52 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 53: 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 © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 52 / 63...

  • Page 54: Buzzer

    3 seconds. The signal quality is represented by count of beeps. State 6. After state 5 for 3 seconds, there is 1 clear beep. If key is released after here, no action will be taken. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 53 / 63...

  • Page 55: Led Indicator

    LED blinking Data is transmitting on Ethernet Table 2. LAN LED Message COM Port LED Message Description LED off No data is transmitting on COM port Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 54 / 63...
  • Page 56 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 © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 55 / 63...

  • Page 57: Appendix B. Upgrade System Software

    MAXI Appendix B. Upgrade System Software After the new version of firmware is released, customers can download it from Atop’s web site at www.atop.com.tw. You can contact Atop’s 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 58 User manual Version 1.1 ABLELink Serial-Ethernet Server GW51W- MAXI 5. GW51W- will automatically restart each time the firmware is successfully downloaded. MAXI Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 57 / 63...

  • Page 59: Critical Issues Of Upgrading

    ACK Start Address Error MAXI MAXI GW51W- ACK Length Error MAXI GW51W- Response Command Error MAXI Configuration file Remote IP not found Open configuration file failure Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 58 / 63...

  • Page 60: Appendix C. Hardware Configuration

    4. Download the correct AP firmware to GW51W- MAXI 5. Remove the Jumper JP7 and JP8 to enable AP firmware. 6. Close the case and continue your operations. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 59 / 63...

  • Page 61: Appendix D 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 © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan.
  • Page 62 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 2.3 and above requires gw21le.dll library to function properly. Copyright © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 61 / 63...
  • Page 63 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 © 2003 Atop Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Designed in Taiwan. 62 / 63...

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