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Title FireVu Detector Standalone Installation Manual
NetVu Ltd.
No 1 Thellow Heath Park, Northwich Road, Northwich, Cheshire. CW9 6JB
Setup Web-page
This page is use to configure the network settings of the detector.
System Name
–
This field can be edited to allocate a name to the unit. This would be used if
accessing the unit using a Domain Name Server (DNS). The setting is the same as the system name
displayed in the System Attributes Web-page and defaults to the unit serial number.
IP Address
–
IP Address is a 32-bit number that uniquely identifies a unit on a TCP/IP network. To
set DHCP usage and obtain an IP address from the general / corporate network set address to
0.0.0.0
Sub Net
–
Subnet mask is used by the TCP/IP protocol to determine whether the host
communicating with the Annunciator is on the local subnet or on a remote network. Subnets are
determined by the class (A, B, or C) of TCP/IP network and by how much the network has been
further divided (subnetted), by a system administrator.
Gateway
–
If the unit communicates with a host on another subnet, it will talk through a device
called a router which links the detector subnet to other networks, the IP address of this router is
called a default gateway.
Primary DNS
–
This is the primary DNS server IP address for applications that are using domain
names. If you want to use other DNS addresses from other units sitting on another domain on the
internet you need to add the IP address of your domains DNS server. This is done in this Primary
DNS setting. Adding the primary DNS server just means that the unit can use DNS names that that
the primary DNS server can see. It should be noted that DNS works hierarchically such that firstly
