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
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Address Management
For the LAN, a DDNS (Dynamic DNS) system is used. Each device has one or more IPv6
addressed assigned to it, based on its location in the network and route out of the LAN.
These addresses are then stored at the head end and used for all communications with the
devices (ping, trace, reads, etc.), giving the customer a true, native end-to-end IP network.
Administration
This section discusses administrative issues about Access Points.
The RavenX modem in each AP has a TELNET port that is used for internal communications
support purposes. The RavenX modem on the AP uses port 6543 for TELNET. Do not disable
this port as doing so will prevent the Sierra Wireless application from communicating.
Note: Silver Spring does not support end users accessing the AP’s modem TELNET port.
Just like a meter, it is possible to ping an Access Point. The Silver Spring solution uses IPv6,
so it is simply a matter of invoking an on-demand ping. This can be accomplished through
the UtilityIQ-AMM user interface, through web services, through GridScape, or through
HCM.
You should get two ping responses for each AP. One is from the RavenX modem. The other
is from the NIC in the AP.
To invoke an on-demand ping against an Access Point, navigate to the appropriate Device
Details page and click on the On Demand Ping link (location varies with each monitor
application). Figure 6 illustrates the ping sequence for UtilityIQ’s AMM application.
Also, UtilityIQ AMM exposes a web services API for invoking on-demand pings against
Access Points.
Figure 6. Ping sequence