GMC200
Media Converter System
User Guide
November 20, 2007
Version: 4.00
Quality Fiber and RF, Inc.
Page 1: ...GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide November 20 2007 Version 4 00 Quality Fiber and RF Inc...
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Page 3: ...s document is believed to be accurate and reliable to the publication date of this document However Quality Fiber and RF Inc assumes no responsibility for any errors in this document Furthermore Quali...
Page 4: ...Loop back test section re organized FMC V1 40 Jan 15 2007 Switchover protection and http TFTP firmware update functions added FMC V2 00 Mar 22 2007 SNMP and management page modified FMC V3 00 May 22 2...
Page 5: ...Ds on the plug in 100Base FX Converter Card 10 2 4 2 100Base FX Optical Port Specifications 12 2 4 3 1000Base X Optical Port Specifications 13 3 Web based Management 14 3 1 System Information 15 3 2 S...
Page 6: ...Guide v 5 2 System Information 44 5 3 Card Commands 44 5 4 Select a Chassis 49 5 5 Network Information 50 5 6 SNMP 50 5 7 Alarm 51 5 8 Set System Information 52 5 9 Retime System Clock 52 5 10 Reset...
Page 7: ...uring or maintaining networks This guide assumes that you understand the transmission and management protocols used on your network 1 2 Features Each chassis containing up to 15 media converter MC slo...
Page 8: ...ual wavelength 1310 1550nm SC connector operating distance 20 30 50 km Dual single mode fibers single wavelength 1310 or 1550nm SC connector operating distance 20 30 50km Dual multi mode fibers single...
Page 9: ...ptions Link transparency to indicate the link down from link partner 1 3 4 IP Ping Features In addition to the in band OAM features GMC200 media converter system also supports IP ping function on some...
Page 10: ...00 media converter system s carrier center chassis is shown in the following drawings The whole rack contains 15 pieces of media converter cards and 1 piece of network management card All plug in card...
Page 11: ...and in standby mode It is not supplying the current to the system It will supply the current to the system immediately when the active power is going off Standby Yellow Off The power supply is off or...
Page 12: ...Slave C In addition to the power supply module two removable replaceable fans can be found on the rear panel which are used to cool down the chassis 2 1 3 Rear Panel Management Connectors There are al...
Page 13: ...ntal Dimensions 19 inch rack mount width 2 0U height Weight 9 Kg Operating temperature 0 65 Storage temperature 25 85 Humidity 5 95 RH Non condensing 2 2 Remote Converter Unit The following drawing is...
Page 14: ...hows the power connector on the rear panel 5VDC 2 2 2 Physical and Environmental Dimensions 125 90 28mm Weight 0 50Kg Operating temperature 0 65 Storage temperature 25 85 Humidity 5 95 RH Non condensi...
Page 15: ...at different levels The following table shows the LED descriptions Label Type Color State Description On The converter is power on PWR Power status Red Off The converter is power off On Valid communic...
Page 16: ...ingle fiber 100 Base FX converter card with or without IP ping function Multi mode 1000Base SX to single mode 1000 Base LX converter card without IP ping 10 100 1000Base TX to single mode single or du...
Page 17: ...f On The converter is in 100BASE TX mode TP SPD Speed Indicator Yellow Off The converter is in 10BASE TX mode On The 10 100BASE TX port is in full duplex mode TP FDX Full duplex half duplex Indicator...
Page 18: ...lug in converter card at the central side are listed in the following table Transmission Distance km Optical Output Power dBm Receiving Sensitivity dBm Optical Output Wavelength nm Spectral Width nm 2...
Page 19: ...User Guide 13 2 4 3 1000Base X Optical Port Specifications As the SFP module is used in the 1000Base X media converter cards regarding the 1000Base X optical port specifications please refer to the da...
Page 20: ...about the networking devices protocols and interfaces that comprise your network You should have working knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system graphical user interfaces GUIs and Web bro...
Page 21: ...system will not automatic log out even if the webpage stays inactive for a period of time You shall close the page if you think it is necessary 3 1 System Information The system information page allo...
Page 22: ...ed and are powered Here the master refers to the chassis with RJ45 and DB9 connecter on the front panel of the network management card which is connected to the management terminal via Ethernet connec...
Page 23: ...display all the chassis related information and configure the local and remote converter parameters here 3 3 1 Chassis Details The chassis detail information will be shown as below after you click th...
Page 24: ...em User Guide 18 3 3 2 Converter Location The local and remote converter locations can be defined in the following web page The information could be used to identify the converter You can put the cust...
Page 25: ...port status for the selected chassis The management software will only show the slot status with a plug in in it If the remote converter is not connected or powered off its status will not show on th...
Page 26: ...ter Detail page by clicking the Goto Remote MC link on the Converter Detail page The followings are the control tabs used on these two pages Upstream Downstream Bandwidth You can enable the rate contr...
Page 27: ...ocal and remote converters will be reconfigured back to the factory default Show MIB Counters Display the content of 32 MIB counters Remote Fault Detection RFD The feature allows the remote converter...
Page 28: ...an show the converter MIB counters by clicking the web page button of Show MIB Counters under the Local Converter Control tab The total of 32 MIB counters will be shown as following web page All the M...
Page 29: ...or the original standard protocol GMC200 management system supports SNMPv1 You can configure SNMPv1 read write and read only community strings enable or disable trap mode settings 3 4 1 SNMP Configur...
Page 30: ...ion To create SNMP traps you should open the Trap Configuration page under the SNMP Configurations as shown below First you need to select where the traps come from then you can select the trap item s...
Page 31: ...h include the IP address subnet mask and default gateway as shown in the following figure After you have changed the network settings you shall restart the chassis in order to bring the new setting in...
Page 32: ...setup and configuration information can be backup to a data file and then restore back to the system This feature is helpful for the system administrator to keep track the network information in a saf...
Page 33: ...king System Alarm Log under the Other Utilities The alarms include any change on the local and remote converters such as link up and down power on and off The logged information contents the date and...
Page 34: ...will be over written by the new one 3 7 2 Real Time Clock You can show and modify the real time clock setting by clicking the Real Time Clock under the Other Utilities During the alarm logging procedu...
Page 35: ...parameters including the system firmware upgrade 2 admin with default password of 123 This login account will have all the privilege to change and setup the system parameters except the system firmwa...
Page 36: ...GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 30 factory default by pressing and holding the reset button on the face plat of the network management card for more than 5 seconds...
Page 37: ...GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 31 3 7 4 Serial Port Settings You can show the following serial port setting by clicking the Serial Port Settings under the Other Utilities...
Page 38: ...l converter will automatically send out 100 loopback frames to the remote converter and then check if the loopback frames are successfully looping back If there is no CRC error for all the loopback fr...
Page 39: ...MC200 Media Converter System User Guide 33 To do the loopback test you shall follow the two procedures Select the card number to be tested and click Loopback Test button you will see the following pag...
Page 40: ...GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 34 After a few seconds the loopback test result will be shown as following...
Page 41: ...GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 35 3 8 Restart Chassis By clicking the Restart Chassis button you can restart the management module with all the setting unchanged...
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Page 43: ...ndard Ethernet management protocol user can monitor GMC200 through SNMP software The following examples are taking MIB Brower from iReasoning company to monitor GMC200 4 1 Software Installation Double...
Page 44: ...GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 38 Choose Next to select both MIB Brower and Start Menu and Desktop Icons Choose an installation location...
Page 45: ...GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 39 Click Close to complete the installation 4 2 MIB Brower Usages Launch MIB Brower the following figure will be shown...
Page 46: ...GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 40 User can load a MIB file to the MIB tree on the top left Choose RFC1213 MIB The RFC1213 MIB and its associated nodes will be shown like this...
Page 47: ...200 Media Converter System User Guide 41 To monitor the GMC200 it required to Input the correct IP address to the Address column and click the advanced button set up the correct read and write communi...
Page 48: ...nformation are listed Choose sysDescr node and choose Get Operation when the Go button has been clicked the system description of GMC200 will be given as follow However if the walk operation has been...
Page 49: ...t card COM Properties Bits per second 57600 Data bits 8 Parity bit None Stop bits 1 Flow control None ASCII Setup Append line feeds to incoming line ends Wrap lines that exceed terminal width 5 1 Main...
Page 50: ...nd in the command line as below Some of the listed information here can be modified by set command described in later section 5 3 Card Commands Card commands are associated with showing the port statu...
Page 51: ...umber or slot number where 1 15 will correspond to the converter in the slot Number 0 is a global selection for the slots i e if number 0 is used in these commands it means that slots 1 15 will be sel...
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Page 55: ...o configure and monitor the media converters in the chassis The four commands used are select master select slave1 select slave2 select slave3 Where the master refers to the chassis with DB9 connecter...
Page 56: ...o reconfigure the network settings which include the IP address subnet mask and gateway The default settings shown here are the same as listed in the previous sections in this document 5 6 SNMP The sc...
Page 57: ...ilable for the system administrator The first one is to list all the alarms logged and the second one is to clear all the previous alarms If you type alarm in the main menu all the alarm will be shown...
Page 58: ...tion set the administrator s contact information such as telephone number and name The command syntax is shown in the following figure 5 9 Retime System Clock There are two commands related to the on...
Page 59: ...racter will lead to end the reset command The reset command is used to reset the management software and change all the setting back to the factory default After reset command you shall reboot the cha...
Page 60: ...GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 54 any other character will lead to end the reboot command The reboot command is used to restart the management software and keep all the setting unchanged...
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