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Select the connection profile you would like to connect to. Statically defined connection profiles are
shown below the Close Current Connection item.
The message on the right of the status bar will change to Connected in green if the ReaderManager
successfully connected to the reader.
For connections to a ReaderServer on the same computer, a status message will indicate that the server
is being started automatically. This takes a little longer than a network connection because of this
activity.
5.1.2 Opening a Dynamic Connections
ReaderManager uses multicast addressing to discover readers on a network. Figure 10 shows a typical
connection menu showing various readers detected on a network. It is not necessary to define a profile
for readers to be discovered on a network.
Figure 10
Readers are labelled as either:
<Reader Type> - <Serial Number> or as,
<Reader Type> - <User defined name> or as,
<Mac Address> - <IP address>.
When the menu item is highlighted the MAC and IP address is shown on the status bar.
5.2 Closing a Connection
When connected to a reader, the menu item Close Current Connection can be selected in the Connection
menu. If a local ReaderServer has been automatically started when the connection was established, it
will be automatically shutdown as well.