Pathway Pathport Manager 5 User Guide - Manual (Page 4)

Pathway Connectivity
Pathport Manager 5 v1 Manual 4
Installation, NIC Configuration and Start Up
Pathport Manager 5 runs on Windows, Mac or Linux operating systems using Java 1.6
or higher. Go to java.com to verify your version is up-to-date. Mac users must be using
64-bit processors and must set Java SE 6 (64-bit) as the default engine.
Because Pathport Manager must often be downloaded using slow or poor connections, it
is not a self-installing program with embedded Java engine, in order to reduce file size.
Unzip Pathport Manager 5 into a directory of your choice. Click on the filename
‘PathportManager5.jar’ to launch the program. The ‘run.bat’ and ‘run.sh’ files can be
used by Windows and Linux users respectively to launch Pathport Manager with
memory optimization and command window logging.
Before launching PM5, the computer’s network interface card (NIC) must be set to the
same IP domain and subnet mask as the Pathport nodes, or the nodes will be shown as
‘questionable (can’t fetch props, can’t fetch patch)’. The default settings for Pathport
nodes are in the 10.x.x.x IP range with subnet mask of 255.0.0.0.
Log-in Screen
A splash screen appears upon launch. Any errors encountering during start up are
reported in the Event Log.
The first time Pathport Manager 5 is run, the user will be prompted to create an
administrator account. Fill in a name and password and click OK.
Once an account is created, the password must be provided when PM5 starts, or the
program will only run in Monitor mode.
The Administrator account is not intended as strong security, but to separate
configuration functions from monitoring functions. Although PM5 encrypts the user
name and password, this information is not stored by the Pathport nodes, so the admin
name and password only apply to the current software installation.