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Chapter 2 ’Installation and Startup’ — Configuring Amethyst III
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Once connected, a number of actions can be performed:
 IP settings : setting the IP address, subnet mask and default gateway
for the interface.
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If the IP address is not properly set yet, only the IP settings
menu is available.
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Set at least the equipment IP address and subnet mask in
order to be able to access it remotely via the Web supervision
application.
 Setup parameters : setting all other setup parameters.
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Identity : equipment name
 SNMP : configuration of read and read-write communities, trap
address and access list mode.
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Date & Time : configuration of UTC date, local offset, and
daylight savings.
 Clock settings : the clock can be synchronized on an external
source, which can be an NTP server or an incoming table (TDT
or TOT in DVB mode; STT in ATSC mode).
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User rights : you may define some users, and for each user the
list of actions he/she is entitled to perform. You can also protect
some supervision and configuration actions with a password.
Rights are as follows:
- With the Modify configuration rights, you can create a new
configuration or modify an existing configuration.
- With the Apply configuration rights, you can apply an
existing configuration.
- With the Remove configuration rights, you can remove a
configuration that is not applied to the equipment.
- With the Delete closed alarms rights, you can delete the list
of closed alarms.
- With the Manual switch rights, you can perform manual
switch requests.
- With the Monitoring output selection rights, you can
choose the behavior of monitoring outputs.
- With the Reset monitoring counters rights, you can reset
the tests counters.
- With the Set maintenance mode rights, you can switch on
the maintenance mode of the equipment.
- With the FEC activation mode, you can reactivate the FEC
correction or generation of the equipment in case of
deactivation.