B&B Electronics VESP211 Series - Manual - Manual (Page 20)

Section 3 - Initial Setup and Connections Vlinx VESR4x4 Serial Server
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Installing and Starting Vlinx Manager
Vlinx Manager is a Windows-based application used to configure serial servers.
Install it on your PC from the included CD. Installation should launch
automatically when the CD is placed in the CD-ROM drive. If it does not
automatically launch, click Start on the Windows Desktop and, at the Run
command, type the drive letter and Vlinx Manager.exe. Follow the prompts to
install the software.
Once the program is installed, go to the Start > Programs menu and run the
program.
The Vlinx Manager Discovery window appears.
Figure 14. Discovery Window
Discovering Serial Servers
If you are configuring the serial server via the network, select Network ; if you
are configuring it via the serial port, select Serial Port .
If you already know the IP address of the serial server, click The device is at
this IP address ; if not, leave I don’t know the IP address of the device
selected.
Click Connect . The Progress bar provides information to indicate whether
serial servers are detected.
The text in the Progress box appears in various colors, depending on the
message type.