Geist Watchdog 1000 Quick Start User Manual
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Watchdog 1000-Series quick-setup pack-in sheet (rev.150216A)
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SETUP EXAMPLES TO TEST YOUR WATCHDOG 1000-SERIES MONITORING UNIT:
Note: The following instructions assume that you have successfully connected the unit to a network, assigned it
an IP address, and have been able to bring up its Sensors page in your web browser using the “Quick-Start
Network Setup” instructions on the preceding page.)
Before the unit can log data, its real-time clock must be set to the
correct time. The System Clock settings are on the Config-Admin
page; click the
Config
tab on the left-hand side of the web page to
bring up the configuration-settings page, click the
Admin
sub-tab,
then scroll down the page until you find the time-settings block, as
shown here.
The clock can either be set manually, or it can be automatically
synced to an NTP time server. By default,
Set Clock Method
is
set to
Manual-GMT
; just fill in the
Year
,
Month
,
Day
,
Hour
,
Minutes
, and
Seconds
fields, as shown here. Note that the unit
uses a 24-hour clock format; i.e. 8AM would be represented as
08:00:00
, while 8PM would be
20:00:00
.
The unit's time is always set in GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). To convert this to your local time, set the
appropriate
GMT to local
offset (specified as + or – the appropriate amount in hours and minutes, i.e.
–05:00
for
U.S Eastern Standard Time,
+10:00
for East Australia Time, etc.) for your particular time zone. Then click
Save
Changes
, and the clock will be set. If Daylight-Saving Time is in effect in your area, be sure to add +1 to the
offset, as appropriate (i.e. use
–04:00
for U.S Eastern Daylight Time instead of
–05:00
.)
To have the unit set the time automatically via NTP, change
Set Clock Method
to
NTP
, then click
Save Changes
.
Note, however, that for this to work, you will need to have correctly set the
Gateway
and
DNS Servers
in the
Network settings block, so that the unit is able to reach the outside internet to look up the NTP server’s address
and communicate with it. If these settings are not correct, or if the network’s firewall settings are not set up to
allow the unit to access the outside internet, NTP mode will not work.
Next, the Email settings on the Config-Monitoring page need to
be configured, for the unit to be able to send alerts. If you plan to
use an external SMTP server or a “hosted” service such as Gmail
or AOL, you will need to obtain the correct SMTP settings for
your account from those services.
The unit will only work with a standard SMTP mail server. It does
not support IMAP, or the proprietary MAPI/RPC protocol used by
Microsoft Exchange and Outlook. (The unit can use an Exchange
server to send e-mails, if the Exchange server is set up to allow
SMTP connections; however, this may require some additional
configuration of the Exchange server to allow the unit to connect to it properly. Please consult the unit’s user
manual for more information on this.) Therefore, if you need to contact your service provider to get the correct
settings, you may need to explicitly mention that you are not setting up Outlook, or a browser-based e-mail client,
on a Windows or Mac computer, in order to get the correct “generic” SMTP settings from them.
To send e-mails through a Gmail account, for example, the settings would be programmed as follows:
Protocols:
ESMTP/TLS/SSL
Server:
smtp.gmail.com
Port:
587
“From” E-mail address:
complete Gmail e-mail address (i.e.
)
Username:
complete Gmail e-mail address (i.e.
)
Password:
Gmail login password
Then put the e-mail addresses you want to have e-mail alerts sent to into the
To E-mail Address
fields. Only one
address can be entered into each
To E-mail Address
field; you cannot “stack” a list of recipients, i.e.
“[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]”, within a single
To E-mail Address
entry.
Once the correct e-mail server settings have been entered, click
Save Changes
, then click
Send Test Email
to
have the unit send a test message. If you do not receive the test message within a couple of minutes, double-check