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5 Managing Connections
This section details how to create static connection profiles, how to connect or disconnect
ReaderManager from a reader.
The ReaderManager is capable of connecting to a variety of readers. Each reader is distinguished by a
number of parameters which give it a unique address. The set of all these parameters is referred to as a
connection profile.
This includes connections to all kinds of readers across the network or AVR Series readers that are
running on the same PC as the ReaderManager.
There are two ways to connect to a reader:
1. Defining a static connection or,
2. Using the dynamic reader discovery feature in ReaderManager.
5.1 Defining a Static Connection
To access the Edit Connections dialog, select Connections->Edit Connections.
When you first start ReaderManager, you only have the Local connection configured, which is a default
AVR Series reader connection. You may want to connect to a ReaderServer somewhere else on the
network, or another local reader.
The connection dialog is shown in Figure 8, its elements are described in Table 6.
Figure 8
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