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6. Click Apply to save the new settings.
For information on how to send an activation SMS, see To activate a data connection with an
SMS
on page 42.
Link monitoring
You can monitor the external IP connection of the EXPLORER system using the link monitoring
feature. With this feature activated, the terminal will send out ping commands (ICMP Echo
Requests) to a server of your choice.
To set up link monitoring, do as follows:
1. From the left navigation pane, select ADMINISTRATION > Link monitoring .
2. Select Enabled if you want to enable Link monitoring.
3. Select the Interval between each ping.
4. Select the number of Retries before the terminal reboots.
5. Type in the Primary and optionally the Secondary IP address .
This is the IP address of the server(s) to which the terminal will send ping commands.
6. Click Apply .
When a data session is started with the Default network user group, the terminal will start
sending ping commands to the Primary IP address the number of times specified at Retries. If
no response is received, it will send the same number of ping commands to the Secondary IP
address, if available. If no response is received here either, the terminal will reboot.
Note
Link monitoring is only performed on data connections with the Default network user
group (see
To set up the network user groups on page 95). This data connection
must be activated before link monitoring can start.
Note
Use a server that is reliable and that supports and responds to ICMP Echo
Requests.