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Getting Started
1.
Connect the IP Paging Zone Controller’s Ethernet port to a network
using a Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) Ethernet connection. When
connected, it will power on immediately and the indicator light will
begin to blink.
2.
Locate and note your zone controller’s MAC address. It is printed on a
white sticker on the bottom of the device. A single-channel zone
controller will have one MAC address, and a two-channel zone
controller will have two MAC addresses.
3.
Use the InformaCast server to discover your zone controller’s IP
address. Look for the device matching the MAC address(es) you noted
above. Your zone controller—whether single channel or two-channel—
will only have one IP address.
4.
When it boots, the zone controller uses DHCP by default to
automatically obtain a suitable IP address on your local area network
(LAN). If a DHCP server is not available or cannot be reached, the zone
controller will fall back to a randomly chosen IP address in the
169.254.0.0/16
range as per RFC 3927.
If you cannot discover the zone controller on the InformaCast server,
you can:
consult your DHCP server’s logs to determine its IP address;
use a network discovery app app (such as Fing on iOS and
Android mobile device or LanScan from the Apple OS X App
Store); or
use Wireshark to observe the DHCP network traffic.
