Installing and Configuring Your AV Equipment
N4321D Manual
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Step-by-Step Installation Instructions
This section provides step-by-step guidance for installing and configuring equipment from the N-Series product family on your
network. The steps provided here assume the following to be true:
1.
There are switches operational on the network.
N-Series equipment can operate on many different brands of networking equipment. The network itself needs
to meet certain requirements to be able to support deployment. These instructions assume that you have
purchased and installed a pre-configured switch or that your existing equipment meets the following physical
and protocol requirements:
•
Layer 2 (with IGMP Multicast Protocol), OR Layer 3 (also known as “multi-layer”)
•
Gigabit Ethernet
•
IGMP Snooping
•
IGMP Snooping Querier (which only needs to be enabled on a single switch within the network)
•
Capable of Jumbo Frames (due to frame density)
NOTE:
To proceed with this installation, the switches must already be successfully connected to your network. If
needed, refer to your product’s documentation for installation instructions.
2.
Deployment considerations have been made for the addition of high-speed video.
Our Networked AV solutions provide unsurpassed video and audio quality at bandwidths appropriate to any
network segment or link. Matrix switches as large as 1200x800 have been constructed on a house network
using N-Series equipment. Alternatively, many customers choose to deploy on physically separate networks in
order to use low-cost network appliances but keep video traffic separate from data and voice.
3.
N-Able software has been loaded on the computer you are using to configure the equipment.
From your host computer, download N-Able (our free setup utility software):
http://www.amx.com/products/N-ABLE-PC.asp
This software is designed to set up and control the equipment during initial deployment, however, it is not
always the best solution for production-type or primary user control. Refer to
Control Options
on page 19
for
details on the available control options.
NOTE:
For a more detailed requirements list, refer to
Appendix B: Minimum Network Requirements
Step 1: Setting Up Your Host Computer
In order to communicate with N-Series products, your devices must be on the same subnet as the host computer. N4321D units are
shipped in
DHCP
mode and the IP address will be assigned automatically based on the network DHCP server. If no DHCP server is
found, the unit will use
Auto IP
mode with a default IP address of 169.254.xxx.xxx.
Before beginning installation, you may need to make some changes to the computer running N-Able. These steps show how this
can be accomplished in a Microsoft Windows environment.
1. From the
Start
menu, select
Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center
.
2. Select
Change
