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Quick Start: Configuring Your SiteDialer to Receive
Alarms from a NetGuardian
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For the SiteDialer to send voice notifications for alarms, you must first configure it to communicate with
a NetGuardian and load it with your NetGuardian's alarm database.
To configure your SiteDialer for use with a NetGuardian:
1. Access your NetGuardian via NGEdit
·
Open a locally saved copy of the NetGuardian database
Or
·
Download the database from your NetGuardian by navigating to
Connect > Read from
NetGuardian
and entering the IP and password of your NetGuardian
You'll modify your NetGuardian's database locally, then load it into the SiteDialer to database alarm
messages
2. Navigate to the
Notification Devices
tab
3. In an unused row (ID), enter:
·
TCP
in the
Type
column
·
A 4-digit port number in the
Pin/Rcpt/Port
column. Any port number will work. This simply defines
the virtual TCP port through which your SiteDialer and NetGuardian will communicate.
·
The
IP Address
of your SiteDialer in the
IPA
field.
Configure the TCP notification port on which the NetGuardian will listen for the SiteDialer in the
Notifications tab
Note:
If you have not yet set your SiteDialer's IP address and other ethernet settings, see the
Quick
Start: Assigning your SiteDialer's Ethernet Settings
4. Click
Save
.
5. Access the
Alarms
tab.
6. In either the
Pri Notify
or
Sec Notify
columns, use the drop-down box to select the ID of the TCP
notification you configured in steps 2-4.