User's Manual

Configuring ipView 25
Issue 04 Nortel Networks ipView Software Wallboard Set Up and Operation Guide
To configure ipView to echo to other wallboards, click the Send to other wallboards
option checkbox, to place a tick in the checkbox. (When this option is checked, the Data
Echoing IP Address List and its Add and Remove buttons become active.)
Port Number
You will not normally need to change this value.
This is the Port number on which the ipView software will listen for incoming data, and which it
uses to echo to other wallboards. It may require changing if you wish to address wallboards that
are on the other side of a firewall, and your network administrators have decided on a particular
range of Port numbers which software must use in order to communicate through the firewall.
If your network administrator advises you to change your Port number to a new value, overtype
the old value and click the Apply button.
Note that you must close down and restart ipView before the new setting will take place.
Data Echoing IP Address List
This is used to hold the list of IP addresses that you want ipView to echo to.
To add a new entry to the list, type it into the dotted edit field above the Add and Remove
buttons, and then click the Add button.
To remove an entry from the list, highlight it in the list and then click the Remove button.
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Note that if you want to turn echoing off, you do not need to remove all of the
entries from the list. All you have to do is to un-check the Send to other
wallboards checkbox.
Note that ipView expects the IP Addresses in the Data Echoing IP Address List to remain
constant. If they are altered then the Data Echoing IP Address List should be amended to match.
This will not happen without manual intervention on a physical Wallboard. However, if the
Wallboard being echoed to is an ipView Software wallboard running on a PC that uses DHCP to
obtain its IP Address, then the IP Address of the PC could be subject to change. DHCP enabled
PCs usually receive the same IP Address each time they re-boot. However, if the PC has been
turned off for a period in excess of the IP Address lease time for your network and the IP
Address has been allocated to another PC, then it will receive a new IP Address.
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If the IP Address of a physical Wallboard or an ipView Software Wallboard changes,
the Data Echoing IP Address List must be updated to reflect the new IP Address of
the Wallboard device.