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To change the settings
1. Press the rotary control to advance through each sub-field
2. Turn the rotary control to change the value of the currently selected sub-field.
Gateway
This menu line allows the user to enter the Gateway address of the SRG-4500. Typically, this might be the IP
address of a network hub to which the SRG-4500 is connected.
The options in the sub-fields are: 000 through 255 where “000” is the default “no action” setting.
To change the settings
1. Press the rotary control to advance through each sub-field
2. Turn the rotary control to change the value of the currently selected sub-field.
MAC Address
This menu line displays the MAC Address (Media Access Control), a unique, read-only identifier assigned to
network interfaces for communications on the physical network segment.
This menu item cannot be changed - the MAC address is stored in a hardware device and is unique to each
SRG-4500, and is also used to provide unique update keys when enabling options within the unit.
Other Menus
These menu lines provides access to subsequent menu levels, as indicated. These are defined in the following
sections.
“
-NTP Menu Enter ->
”
“
-DashBoard Menu Enter ->
”
“
-Backup device Menu Enter ->
”
NTP Menus
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Access to the NTP menu is only possible if the NTP option is enabled.
The NTP menu allows the user to configure the Ethernet port to provide (Server Mode) or request (Client Mode)
time information using Network Time Protocol. Access to this menu will only be possible if the NTP option has
been enabled.
The menu line reports the current NTP time. The field “hh:mm:ss:ff: displays hours, minutes, seconds, and frames
in the 24-hour format.
If the NTP Client system has yet to receive a valid time, the menu line appears as:
NTP Menu No NTP time
.
NTP System is Off
This menu line allows the user to control whether the SRG-4500 is configured to be an NTP Client or NTP Server,
or whether the NTP System is off.