Atop ABLELink SW2001, User Manual

Page 1: ...Atop ABLELink Wireless Serial Server SW2001 User Manual Version 1 0 Updated on 2006 06 06 Tel 886 3 5508137 Fax 886 3 5508131 ...

Page 2: ...User manual Version 1 0 ABLELink Wireless Serial Server SW2001 Copyright 2006 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved Designed in Taiwan 1 51 www atop com tw ...

Page 3: ...o 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 Published by Atop Technologies Inc 2F No 146 Sec 1 Tung Hsing Rd Jubei City Hsinchu 302 Taiwan R O C Tel 886 3 55081...

Page 4: ...es l Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna l Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver l Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected l Consult the dealer or an experienced radio TV technician for help This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 This devic...

Page 5: ...ONITOR EXE UTILITY 11 4 2 CONFIGURATION SET BY TELNET UTILITY 11 4 4 CONFIGURATION SET BY WEB BROWSER 30 4 5 VIRTUAL COM MODE 37 4 5 1 Setup of a Virtual COM driver 37 4 5 2 Virtual COM communication 38 5 SNMP SETUP 41 5 1 SNMP NETWORK MANAGEMENT PLATFORM 41 APPENDIX A SW2001 WIRELESS SERIAL SERVER SPECIFICATIONS 42 A 1 HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS 42 A 2 SOFTWARE SPECIFICATIONS 43 A 3 CONNECTOR PIN AS...

Page 6: ...in control program run in SW2001 transforms whatever data received from RS 232 RS 485 to TCP UDP port then connects devices to the IP network via a single application program or multiple application programs Many control devices provide the ability to communicate with hosts through RS 232 RS 485 however RS 232 RS 485 serial communication has its limitations For one it is hard to transfer data thro...

Page 7: ...User manual Version 1 0 ABLELink Wireless Serial Server SW2001 Copyright 2006 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved Designed in Taiwan 6 51 1 2 Application Connectivity ...

Page 8: ...User manual Version 1 0 ABLELink Wireless Serial Server SW2001 Copyright 2006 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved Designed in Taiwan 7 51 ...

Page 9: ...ial port 5 pin Terminal Block for Serial port 3 pin Terminal Block for Power input SMA rev Antenna Connector LED indication for Wireless Status LED indication for System Status Figure 2 1 Nomenclature of SW2001 Components 2 2 MODE Switch This sets or initializes the operating mode for the SW2001 The factory default setting is RS 232 mode You can use the software configurations to change the operat...

Page 10: ...ion Atop SW2001 Wireless Serial Server is shipped with default settings shown in the following table Property Default Value IP Address 10 0 50 100 Gateway 10 0 0 254 Subnet Mask 255 255 0 0 User Name admin Password Null COM 1 9600 None 8 1 No flow control buffer disabled packet delimiter timer 1ms Link 1 Type TCP Server Listen port 4660 Filter 0 0 0 0 Virtual COM disabled SysName of SNMP name SysL...

Page 11: ...be used to set a static IP address of SW2001 using system reset user name admin and default password null 2 Only TCP IP packet with destination port number 1 will lead SW2001 to reboot and change the IP address 3 3 Auto IP A DHCP server automatically assigns the IP address and network settings SW2001 supports DHCP It will supply for the unit with an IP address gateway address and subnet mask You m...

Page 12: ...on set by monitor exe utility Use monitor exe that comes with the product CD or diskette to configure the network parameters of SW2001 As you can see from the following picture you can change IP address gateway IP address subnet mask user ID and password of SW2001 from the utility For more details of the utility please refer to Appendix D Configuration Utility 4 2 Configuration set by Telnet utili...

Page 13: ...001 to reset the password to the default value 2 After verifying the password the following terminal screen appears Notes 1 If SW2001 does not receive any command within 1 minute Telnet will be terminated automatically 2 The changes of networking parameters will take effect only when you exit and restart SW2001 3 Select 1 from Input choice and enter 0 5 to enter overview page as following ...

Page 14: ...erver SW2001 Copyright 2006 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved Designed in Taiwan 13 51 This page gives you the general information of SW2001 including IP and MAC address SNMP information kernel and AP version and connection status of the device ...

Page 15: ...his page allows you to change network settings of the device including IP address subnet mask gateway IP address and SNMP information of SW2001 Please notice that any setting change made on this page won t take effect until you restart the device Change the password 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 pass...

Page 16: ...choice and enter 0 5 the following screen appears The page gives you an opportunity to configure parameters of COM1 setting which includes COM1 working mode port parameters enabling or disabling serial buffer s data and setting packet delimiter LINK1 Setup Type 1 from Input choice and enter 1 4 of COM1 the following screen appears Configure SW2001 as TCP server and the local port is 4660 IP filter...

Page 17: ...ion 1 0 ABLELink Wireless Serial Server SW2001 Copyright 2006 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved Designed in Taiwan 16 51 Configure SW2001 as TCP client the destination IP is 10 0 29 123 destination port is 666 ...

Page 18: ...ELink Wireless Serial Server SW2001 Copyright 2006 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved Designed in Taiwan 17 51 Configure SW2001 as UDP client the local port is 4660 the destination IP is 10 0 29 254 destination port is 666 ...

Page 19: ...d Designed in Taiwan 18 51 COM port setting Type 2 from Input choice and enter 1 4 of COM1 the following screen appears you can then give the 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 ...

Page 20: ...serial data buffer Type 3 from Input choice and enter 1 4 of COM1 by default COM port serial data buffer is enabled meaning that when TCP IP Ethernet connection is broken serial data collected from serial device will be kept in SW2001 once TCP IP connection is resumed the serial data will be sent through Ethernet connection you can disable it if you wish ...

Page 21: ...etting packet delimiter Packet delimiter is a way of controlling packets within serial communication It can prevent packets from being cut thus keep the packets complete SW2001 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 ...

Page 22: ...User manual Version 1 0 ABLELink Wireless Serial Server SW2001 Copyright 2006 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved Designed in Taiwan 21 51 ...

Page 23: ...ht 2006 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved Designed in Taiwan 22 51 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 ...

Page 24: ...1 The above page gives you the general information about SW2001 wireless configurations including the access point it connects to the current channel and transmitting rate it communicates with the other wireless devices topology it uses and what the ESSID extended service set identifier and WEP wireless encryption protocol are if you use them ...

Page 25: ...ved Designed in Taiwan 24 51 Wireless LAN topology You can choose either infrastructure or ad hoc mode for SW2001 as indicated in the following figure Wireless LAN Transmission Rate You can set SW2001 transmission rate as 1 Mbps 2Mbps 5 5Mbps 11Mbps or full auto based on 802 11 standard shown in the following figure ...

Page 26: ...ial Server SW2001 Copyright 2006 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved Designed in Taiwan 25 51 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 ...

Page 27: ...esigned in Taiwan 26 51 Wireless LAN ESSID ESSID extended service set identification is used to identify all of the computers in the wireless LAN system it is different from BSSID basic service set identification which contains a single access point AP and several other nodes The following diagram illustrates this concept ...

Page 28: ...NULL meaning that it can connect to any access point it detects regardless of SSID of the access point However if there are two access points within the coverage of SW2001 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 ...

Page 29: ...gies Inc All rights reserved Designed in Taiwan 28 51 Wireless Encryption Protocol or Wired Equivalent Protocol WEP Setting For security reason SW2001 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 ...

Page 30: ...User manual Version 1 0 ABLELink Wireless Serial Server SW2001 Copyright 2006 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved Designed in Taiwan 29 51 ...

Page 31: ... to modify various settings through the web server interface To do so please follow the steps below Log in to the system 1 From web browser type in the IP address of SW2001 in the URL Example http 10 0 50 100 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 appea...

Page 32: ...e the password 1 Click on the Security link and the following screen appears 2 Please input the old password in the Old Password field input the new password in the New 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 ...

Page 33: ...ppears Fill in IP information under TCP IP field Alternatively you can do the configuration by putting a check on DHCP to obtain auto IP address gateway and subnet mask information 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 yo...

Page 34: ...1 Copyright 2006 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved Designed in Taiwan 33 51 COM1 Setup 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 ...

Page 35: ...P server and the local port is 4660 IP filter is disabled by default if IP filter is enabled only source IP 10 0 29 11 can connect to SW2001 Configure SW2001 as TCP client the destination IP is 10 0 29 11 destination port is 4660 Pair Connection In the case of the serial connection is established with two or more SW2001 to send data over Ethernet network i e pair connection mode you can choose pai...

Page 36: ...igned in Taiwan 35 51 Configure SW2001 as TCP client the destination IP is 10 0 29 11 destination port is 4660 Configure SW2001 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 ...

Page 37: ... 51 Wireless LAN Setup You can configure wireless LAN parameters through web pages the following page gives you the information of the access point SW2001 is connected to it also allows you to configure SW2001 s wireless topology ESSID and WEP security In addition the BSS Quality and Signal Strength will indicate you the situation of signal ...

Page 38: ...n diagram Physical COM1 Physical COM2 COM3 Virtual COM Port COM4 Virtual COM Port COM5 Virtual COM Port COM6 Virtual COM Port OS Driver Level COM256 Virtual COM Port PC HUB TCP IP Network Serial Line Serial Device 1 Serial Line Serial Device 2 Serial Line Serial Device 3 Serial Line Serial Device 4 SW5001 WgN1 4 5 1 Setup of a Virtual COM driver Pre installation requirements Please check the opera...

Page 39: ...lease select one or two COM ports to become the Virtual COM ports Uninstalling 1 From Windows Start menu select Setting Control Panel Add Remove Programs 2 Select Serial IP for ATOP in the list of installed software 3 Click the Add Remove button to remove the program or From Windows Start menu select Programs Serial IP for ATOP Uninstall Serial IP for ATOP to remove the program 4 5 2 Virtual COM c...

Page 40: ... through telnet configuration by setting COM1 as TCP server and type in the local port number for 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 ...

Page 41: ... display changes to reflect the settings for that COM port Note When you change settings for a COM port the changes are effective immediately There is no separate confirmation dialog to confirm or cancel your changes Configuring Virtual COM Ports You configure each Serial IP COM port as follows 1 Select a COM port in the list 2 For IP Address of Server enter a numeric IP address for the serial ser...

Page 42: ...l Panel to continue with the following steps 6 For Connection Protocol the setting must match the TCP IP protocol that the serial server supports The Configuration Wizard is usually able to determine the correct setting 7 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 combinatio...

Page 43: ... 14 dBm 11g 13 dBm Rx Sensitivity 66 dBm 54 Mbps 80 dBm 11Mbps Transmission Rate 54 Mbps max with auto fallback Transmission distance Up to 300 meters 12 Mbps in open areas Antenna Connector Reverse SMA Topologies Infrastructure Ad Hoc Ethernet 10 100M LAN for Redundancy Configuration Protection Built in 1 5 KV magnetic isolation Configuration with Telnet Protocol Serial Port Support RS232 485 422...

Page 44: ...H A 2 Software Specifications Item Specifications Protocol ICMP IP TCP UDP DHCP Client Telnet DNS SNMP HTTP SMTP SNTP Configuration Configuration information for both TCP IP and serial ports is kept in the EEPROM Configuration utilities of Windows 95 98 2000 NT XP 2003 are provided for configuring settings Internal Buffer Size TCP receiving buffer size 8K bytes TCP transmitting buffer size 16K byt...

Page 45: ...nal Ground 6 DSR N A N A 7 RTS RTS R RTS R 8 CTS N A CTS T 9 N A N A reserved for Atop devices N A Atop provides Mini DIN connector to DB9 connector cable the pin assignments of DB9 connector is shown in the following table Pin RS 232 Full Duplex RS 485 2 wire Half Duplex RS 485 4 wire Full Duplex 1 DCD N A N A 2 RXD N A N A 3 TXD DATA RXD 4 DTR N A reserved TXD 5 SG Signal Ground SG Signal Ground...

Page 46: ...t 2006 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved Designed in Taiwan 45 51 2 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 ...

Page 47: ...When run time if the default key is pressed and then released one of the specified actions will be down depending on the released time after you heard how many beeps BSS quality is indicated by count of LEDs which is shown as bellowed Blink RED There is no signal detected One RED The quality is between is 0 20 2 LEDs The quality is between is 20 40 3 LEDs The quality is between is 40 60 4 LEDs The...

Page 48: ...wan 47 51 Message Description LED off No data is transmitting on COM port LED on blinking state Data is transmitting on COM port Table 3 COM Port LED Message RUN LED Message Description LED on 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 ...

Page 49: ...do the following steps to detect devices currently available on the network 1 Start monitorXX exe utility program 2 Select an item from the Broadcast IP list 3 Specify a number in the Wishes box 4 Click on the Invite button This will display all the devices information you have requested D 3 Configure Devices You may use monitorXX exe configuration utility to configure the settings of devices on t...

Page 50: ...c All rights reserved Designed in Taiwan 49 51 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 ...

Page 51: ...f devices this utility program detected Retry Specify the number of times that an Invite request is re sent Locate Locate the specified device Reset Reset the selected device Config Configure the selected device Exit Exit this utility IP Address Indicate the IP address of the device that replied to your request Ÿ Leading tag stands for IP address collision possibly caused by duplicated IP addresse...