Eaton EFX48 e-Fuse Series, Installation And Operation Manual

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Communications
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Communications Options
The EFX e-Fuse Electronic Distribution has an Ethernet 100BaseT interface for communication
with a local or remote PC or laptop, or a Network Management System (NMS).
The standard communications options for an EFX48 are described in the following sections.
Ethernet Communications
Connections

EFX48 e-Fuse

Laptop/PC with:
•
Web browser (see details on page 49), and/or
•
Network Management System using SNMP (see details on page 87), and/or

Ethernet communications network.
EFX48 Setup

The network administrator must assign a unique IP address to each EFX48 to be
connected to the network, or approve for the EFX48 to receive an address automatically
(using DHCP)
►
To configure an EFX48 for Ethernet communications from the keypad
•
Go to
Settings
>
Network
•
First choose
Address Type
. This can be either
Auto
– to receive an address from the
network server, or IPv4 – to set a static IPv4 address
•
For IPv4 (static) enter the IPv4 address , IPv4 netmask and IPv4 gateway address details
assigned by the network administrator.
•
Web access is set to
https
by default. This can be changed to
http
, but read the
Cybersecurity section before doing so.