American Fibertek Commander C10e/C10e-I/C10p/C10p-I - Manual (Page 9)

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Operation
Commander is an IP Security Commander’s Center designed for any application that requires
network switching, network traffic monitoring and protecting system components from failure
due to temperature, humidity or the loss of air flow.
Commander’s unique design also provides interfaces for hard
contacts and control of external auxiliary triggers. Commander
Probes are intelligent. They contain a pre-assigned identification
number and are pre-programmed to activate LED # 1 until
reassigned by an operator. Once programmed for LED and
operations, the programming is maintained within the probe and
will not be lost if the probe is unplugged or transferred to another
Commander.
Records of warning and alarm sensor events are recorded in logs. In addition Commander can be
programmed to poll itself at regular intervals and record its results in a Poll log. Reviewing this
log can help in tracking trends that, while not triggering warning or alarm events might lead to
conditions that significantly affect the life span of mission critical component such as hard drives.
In addition, warnings and alarms triggers as well as logs themselves can be programmed as
emails for alerts and for maintaining logs at remote locations. Commander also provides two
serial communication ports, one for RS 232 and one for RS 485. These ports can be used for data
exchange between Commander and any data storage or data generating source.
Communication time outs and restarts are
operated in the communication menu. The Time
out settings defines the time duration that if no
traffic is sensed, the port will be shut down. The
port can only be accessed by one client at a time.
If the time is set to 0, no time out will occur and the potential remains for the port to be blocked
from additional clients. Master and Security Admin security levels can set and save time out
settings. All security levels with “Security View” access can manually restart communication
ports by point and click on the selected port .
Commander conditions and operations can be viewed via an
easy to operate User Interface. As Commander is its own
server, no external client software is required. As interfacing
to Commander doesn’t require an Active X component, it
can be viewed and operated with most common web
browsers. The Status view screen displays a series of colors
matching those on the front panel.