WESII User Manual
Manual-WESII-Rev1205A
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3.2.2
Services and Diagnostic Tools
The “Services” menu is where the tools to set-up trouble-shooting and maintenance
are found.
Services: Ping Watchdog
3.2.2.1
The ping watchdog serves as an option to perform an automatic power cycle if the
unit loses connection to a particular IP address. As soon as the system can no longer
ping an IP on the network under the conditions for which it is set, the unit will
reboot. When enabled the system will begin pinging the IP entered after the given
interval and will function as configured. It must be configured to wait for a particular
number of non-responses (typically five) before rebooting. It will reboot then try the
ping again. In the example below (a picture of the default configurations) the unit
will start to ping 192.168.1.1 after 60 seconds. Each ping can be set to the desired
interval between pings adding to or subtracting from the amount of time elapsed
before failure responses create the need for a reboot.
Note:
the ping watch dog should never be used with a device that obtains its IP via
DHCP, it should only be used with devices using static IP addresses.
