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Preparing the Operating PC or Service Notebook
Before commissioning the Serial Hub, you must take the following precautions on the
service PC (notebook).
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Installation of the hub driver
To operate the Serial Hub from a WINDOWS® application in which an Ethernet link
will be established, a driver providing a virtual serial COM port must first be installed
using the configuration tool. This is done by installing and setting up the
configuration software.
From the point of view of the application, the virtual COM ports look like interfaces
built into the PC/laptop. Up to 255 virtual COM ports (minus the number of physical
COM ports) can be installed on a PC/laptop.
This requires the operating system WINDOWS® 2000 or WINDOWS® XP SP1
(Home / Professional).
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Installing the Configuration Software
For easy Serial Hub configuration using the configuration tool, the tool must be
installed on the operating PC from the enclosed DVD “
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“ under "Accessories
\ 7XV5655 \ Configtool
".
There are two ways of configuring the Serial Hub using the configuration tool via the
Ethernet interface.
1. The Serial Hub is connected directly to the operating PC/laptop using a cross-
over patch cable. After you have started the configuration tool, the connected
Serial Hub is found automatically and can be configured.
2. The Serial Hub is connected with a patch cable to a switch in an existing
network to which the operating PC/laptop is also connected. After you have
started the configuration tool, all connected Serial Hubs are found
automatically and can be configured. To configure Serial Hubs that are in
another network segment (e.g. behind a router), they must be located in the
network by manually entering the IP address.
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Configuring the Ethernet Interface of the Operating PC
For the operating PC to be able to communicate with the Serial Hub, the Ethernet
interface of the operating PC/laptop must be configured accordingly.
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