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User Guide 860547876
August 2016
Page 11 of 15
If you need
to…
You
should…
Confirm the other end of a connection
between two iPatch panel ports.
Locate the unknown end of the patch cord. Then press and hold the unknown
port’s
button for 2 seconds.
Complete the connection to an iPatch
panel port.
Insert the other end of the patch cord. If the connection
information on the display is correct, press Yes.
Confirm the other end of a simplex
fiber connection between 2 iPatch
panel ports for a known port (and
both positions for the port to be
confirmed are in use.)
1.
Select a port to be confirmed from the confirms list.
2.
If confirming a fiber port, and the two strands of that port are patched to different
endpoints, press the
“simplex” button, and then use use the A/B toggle button to
choose whether the B or A strand is to be confirmed.
3.
Locate the far end of the patch cord being confirmed, and then press and hold the
trace button above that port.
4.
If the port where the cord terminates is a fiber port, both strands of the port are
populated and the patch being confirmed is a simplex connection, the system will ask
which of the two strands is the strand being selected. Use the A/B toggle button to
choose whether the B or A strand is the far end of the patch being confirmed. When the
correct connection is displayed, press Yes.
Complete the connection to
equipment.
Press and hold the iPatch panel
port’s button for 2 seconds, or press the
Equipment
button on the imVision Controller display.
Remove the connection.
Remove both ends of the patch cord.
Connecting Controllers in a Zone
A
zone
is a group of racks and cabinets (including mainframes) between which patch connections can be made.
An imVision Controller has two communications ports:
1. A/IN
2. B/OUT
The controllers in a zone must be connected to each other in a chain using patch cords between the controllers.
In a zone, the “B” or “OUT” port of one controller must connect to the “A” or “IN” port of the next controller.
Additionally, the communications mode of each imVision Controller communication port must be selected using a
pushbutton next
to t
he port. The options for communications mode are:
Network or Unused
The “Network or Unused” communications mode should be selected if the port is unused, or if the port will
be connected to the customer’s Ethernet network.
The “Network or Unused” mode is selected when the button next to a port is in the “pushed in” position.
When pushed in, the button is inset from the controller housing.
To configure an imVision Controller as
a Network Manager, at least one of the controller’s buttons must be
set to the “Network or Unused” communications mode.
