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1. General
1.1. Purpose
This document addresses to challenges encountered within the initial configuration of Viola M2M
Gateway, Viola Systems Product Code 2500 (later on abbreviated as M2M GW) and Viola Arctic
devices with Product Codes 22XX, operating in 2G cellular network (later on abbreviated as Arctic).
Because the IP addressing is case specific, this document uses some examples for demonstrating
on how the IP addressing and routing would be configured.
1.2. Summary
It has been found that there is a need for a document that describes the initial setup of M2M GW
and Arctic in order to build up an end-to-end connection between each others. This document
answers to such a need. Furthermore, this document provides supplementary information to M2M
GW's and Arctic's user’s manuals. Large amount of data in this document has been gathered
based on answers to frequently asked questions from Viola Systems Technical Support.
1.3. Target audience
The target audience for this document is:
• Field engineers
• Sales partners
• Customers' technical personnel
1.4. Conventions
The following conventions are used throughout this document:
• The menu items in graphical user interfaces are denoted as bolded italic font and the
sequence of mouse clicks, while configuring the devices in menus is separated with an
arrow. Example: “Click Tools Æ System log”.
• The console output is printed with courier font and user input is printed with bold
courier font. Example:
[viola-adm@m2mgw ~]# date
Tue Jun 01 13:05:00 CET 2010
• References to certain parts of this document and figure/table captions are denoted with
italic font.
• The acronyms and abbreviations may be used without opening the terms, see Appendix E:
Acronyms and abbreviations for reference.
• The usernames and passwords are denoted with courier font.
• Parameter-value pairs are denoted with courier font.
• Important notes are colored red.
• The placeholders for actual values are written between “<” and “>” mark.
For example, the <IP_address> would mean a place to write the actual IP address.
2. Pre-requisites
• It is assumed that the reader of this document has a basic knowledge of Linux and
Windows systems, IP networking, serial-connected devices and computers in general.
• The password for the default user viola-adm is known (see the M2M GW's quick start
guide for the details).
• The M2M GW's and Arctic's user's manuals and quick start guides are available, while
performing the initial setup.