Specifications
STATUS MONITORING
4. Status Monitoring
4.1. Chassis Interface Options
The Active MAXNET II product line can be monitored and controlled in either of two ways:
a) A free, web-based interface. This comes pre-installed on every chassis and provides a user friendly method of
conguring the administrative set-up and all monitoring and control. It is based on SNMP, but requires little knowledge
of SNMP. Any Internet browser, such as Internet Explorer, is all the software that is required.
b) Any third-party SNMP Management software (eg. www.castlerock.com, www.ndt-inc.com/SNMP/MIBrowser.html )
may be purchased separately. These suites tend to be expensive and not as user friendly as the web interface. The
web interface is also still required for administrative set-up. The 3rd party interface is recommended only for systems
that have an existing SNMP architecture. All MIBs (Management Information Bases) are freely downloadable from
the SCTE (www.scte.org/standards). ATX was able to support all modules using the SCTE standard HMS MIBs, so
no custom MIBs are required.
4.2. Software Network Set-up
a) Recommended: Connect the chassis to a PC/laptop directly with a cross-over network cable.
Alternative: Connect the chassis to a switch or router using a patch network cable.
b) Enter the IP address of the chassis as the URL in a web browser. By default (factory reset), this will be 192.168.0.1.
If the device does not respond, see Troubleshooting section at the end of this document.
c) The login page should appear. Login as administrator (default password for all levels is the lower case name of the
level, i.e. Observer password is observer).
d) The conguration settings page should appear. It is important to either use DHCP or (preferably) assign a unique
IP address to each MP3 chassis that will be on the same subnet as your DHCP server assigns addresses. “Same
Subnet” refers to an IP address that has the same rst three octets, but a unique fourth octet e.g. 192.168.0.1 and
192.168.0.2 are on the same subnet.
e) Obtain a list of IP addresses from your IT department to use for your chassis’ and assign them one by one. If DHCP
is chosen, then this is not required, but you may have trouble nding out what IP address the DHCP server assigned
to each chassis, and it may change during a reboot of the chassis or DHCP server, so it is not recommended unless
the DHCP server is set to assign static IP addresses to the unique MAC addresses of each chassis installed.
f) There are several other options that can be set at this time, see Table 6 for a list.
g) Select ‘save changes’ and reboot. The device will take approximately 90 seconds before it is responsive again.
Remember that your PC/laptop must be set to the same subnet to ‘see’ it, so if you just assigned an IP address
other than 192.168.0.x, then you will need to change your PC’s IP again. It is recommended you change all chassis
IP addresses before reverting your PC back to DHCP.
4.3. Web Interface
The MAXNET II chassis uses an integrated web page to supplement the SNMP management. All conguration of the chassis
(static IP address, trap/email recipients, rmware upgrades, etc) must be done through the web page. Simply use any web
browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc) and enter the IP address of the chassis as the URL. Login as administrator to modify
conguration and have full read/write access to monitor and control modules. Login as Operator to have full read/write access
or login as observer to have read-only access. There is only one password per login level.
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