Tait TB8100, User Manual

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12 Part A: Introduction
© Tait Electronics Limited December 2007
Remote Connections
The TB8100 base station is designed for remote monitoring, diagnostics,
configuration, firmware upgrade, and control. The Service Kit can carry out all
these functions remotely. Provided a remote link is in place, you can connect
and log on to the base station just as if you were directly connected.
For each remotely linked base station, you need to create a ‘connection,’ which
is a named configuration that tells the Service Kit how to communicate with
the base station.
It is possible to limit remotely connected Service Kit users to read-only access
to diagnostics and configuration or even to deny access completely. Local and
remote connections have separate access profiles.
Remote connections can be modem dial-up (using RS-232) or Network (using
TCP/IP over Ethernet).
Dial-up
connections
Dial-up connections require a telephone line with modems at each end. If there
are a number of base stations at a single site, a third party asynchronous port
switch makes it possible to connect to any base station over the one telephone
line.
With an Alarm Reporting license, the base station can be remotely connected
to an Alarm Center. On Task Manager instruction, the base station uses its
modem to dial up an Alarm Center and pass on its alarm log or send a status
message for emailing. The modems must support the Hayes ‘AT’ protocol.
Network
connections Network connections require hubs or switches, routers, and a data link with
sufficient bandwidth. The base station must be fitted with a system interface
board containing an Ethernet interface. The base station can be configured to
send alarm messages to a central third party syslog collector. A heartbeat message
can also be enabled, so that the syslog collector can report any failure of the base
station.