User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Understanding Silver Spring Networks Access Points
- Contents
- 1 About Access Points
- Overview
- Features
- AP Product Description
- Battery Backups
- Read Storage
- Power Requirements
- Rebooting or Recycling APs
- Standards Compliance
- Cellular Modem
- Addressing Schemes
- Specifications
- European Union Compliance
- Maintenance Procedures
- Surge Protection
- Redundant WAN Option
- Mounting Options
- WAN Options
- Throughput Performance
- Responding to a WAN Failure
- Multicast / Unicast Communications
- Networking
- Address Management
- Administration
- Configuration
- 2 FCC and Government Guidelines
- Index
Understanding Silver Spring Networks Access Points 1 About Access Points
Understanding Silver Spring Networks Access Points 4 March 2013 Silver Spring Networks 17
Address Management
FortheLAN,aDDNS(DynamicDNS)systemisused.EachdevicehasoneormoreIPv6
addressedassignedtoit,basedonitslocationinthenetworkandrouteoutoftheLAN.
Theseaddressesarethenstoredattheheadendandusedforallcommunicationswiththe
devices
(ping,trace,reads,etc.),givingthecustomeratrue,nativeend‐to‐endIPnetwork.
Administration
ThissectiondiscussesadministrativeissuesaboutAccessPoints.
TheRavenXmodemineachAPhasaTELNETportthatisusedforinternalcommunications
supportpurposes.TheRavenXmodemontheAPusesport6543forTELNET.Donotdisable
thisportasdoingsowillpreventtheSierraWirelessapplication
fromcommunicating.
Note: Silver Spring does not support end users accessing the AP’s modem TELNET port.
Justlikeameter,itispossibletopinganAccessPoint.TheSilverSpringsolutionusesIPv6,
soitissimplyamatterofinvokinganon‐demandping.Thiscanbeaccomplishedthrough
theUtilityIQ‐AMMuserinterface,throughwebservices,throughGridScape,orthrough
HCM.
Youshouldget
twopingresponsesforeachAP.OneisfromtheRavenXmodem.Theother
isfromtheNICintheAP.
Toinvokeanon‐demandpingagainstanAccessPoint,navigatetotheappropriateDevice
DetailspageandclickontheOnDemandPinglink(locationvarieswitheachmonitor
application).Figure6illustratesthepingsequenceforUtilityIQ’sAMMapplication.
Also,UtilityIQAMMexposesawebservicesAPIforinvokingon‐demandpingsagainst
AccessPoints.
Figure 6. Ping sequence