ACM5000-GS Quick Start (520066-Rev 1.0)
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Select
Enable
and either leave
Phone Number
blank or set it to
#777
Click
Apply
to enable your
Always On Out-of-Band
connection. The
Internal Cellular Modem
will now connect to
Sprint
's 3G network
You can view the current status of your Internal Cellular Modem at any time by
navigating to the
Cellular
page on
Status
:
Statistics
:
Verify the
Connection Status
in the
Statistics - Failover& Out-of-Band
tab is
shown as
Connected
. You can also check your allocated
IP address
You can measure the received signal strength
RSSI
from the
Cellular
Statistics
page on the
Status: Statistics
screen. -99 dbm to –90 dbm = Weak
Coverage, -89 dbm to – 70 dbm = Medium, -69 dbm or greater = Strong
.
For
advanced detail and logging you can examine
Status
:
Syslog
Note:
You can also see the connection status from the WWAN LED. OFF is shown when in
reset mode or not powered. When powered, it will go ON and while searching for
service it will flash off briefly every 5sec. Once a radio connection has been
established with your cellular carrier (ie, after an APN has been properly
configured) the WWAN LED will blink at a rate proportional to traffic signal strength
detected i.e. OFF =Low, Blinking Slow = Low to Medium Blinking Fast = Medium to
High and ON=Strong
Once the cellular modem has connected to the Sprint network, you can directly access
your ACM5004-GS remotely. To do this your ACM5004-GS needs to have a Public IP
address (and the remote access path must not have SSH firewalled).
If you obtained a Sprint Static IP with your data plan, your ACM5504-GS will be
assigned the same IP address each time it authenticates and accesses the
Internet. So you can now try accessing the ACM5004-GS using the Static Public IP
Address provided by Sprint. However, by default, only HTTPS and SSH access is
enabled on the OoB connection. So you can browse to the ACM5004-GS, but you
cannot
ping
it
If you have a dynamic Public IP address plan, then a DDNS service will need to
be configured. Once this is done, you can then also try accessing the ACM5004-
GS using the allocated domain name. Alternately for an inbound OoB connection
you could use Call Home with a Lighthouse or set up a VPN connection
Note:
Some carriers’ data plans only provides dynamic Private IP address assignments.
Such IP addresses are not directly visible across the Internet and the
Failover &
Out-of-Band
tab on the
Status: Statistics
page, will show your carrier allocated a
Private IP Address (i.e. in the range 10.0.x.x, 172.16.x.x or 192.168.x.x) and Call
Home or VPN is required
