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sat-nms MNC Monitoring & Control System Installation Manual

1. bauer 32zz22K0 nd Dede pap Bere E C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 11 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH The fastest way to create a user interface is to launch the screen layout tool and let the tool create an icon for each device managed by the M amp C system Drag the newly created icons at positions you like you may enlarge the window by dragging the lower right corner Save the layout by clicking to the button with single floppy disk icon and close the layout tool The layout tool enables you to create much nicer user interface screens than this primitive first one However this is a first step and this user interface screen shows the fault state of each device With a double Click to a device icon you open a window which lets out edit all parameters of this device 3 Communication parameter setup gfe 240 2 a gt Soe EA OPERATIONAL MAA mel Maintenance Reset A eve Port Setup data rate 9600 baud data bits 8 bits parity NONE stop bits z hits verbose timeout 2000 msg address reinit after ON retries 0 oO lOGParameterChanges FALSE control COMPUTER At this stage probably all devices will be shown red colored because the communication between the devices and the M amp C system does not wo
2. To change the computers network address login as root and edit the file etc network interfaces The lines you need to change are below theiface ethO inet static line The gateway is the default gateway were packets are routed to which do not match another rule e If there is no router in the network at all remove this line e If the router which is used for remote assistance by SatService GmbH is the only router in the LAN specify it s address here e The there are multiple routers in the network specify the address of that one which shall act as default e g for Internet access If you not sure about network and broadcast address remove these lines and the system will calculate these settings After you edited the changes save the file 2 Change the etc hosts file The file etc hosts specifies names for a couple of network addresses To make services like the SMB Microsoft Network server run properly it is required that the computer s name which is satnms can be resolved to the address of it s Ethernet interface Logged on as root edit the file etc hosts and search for the file defining the satnms IP address Change the address to the new value To activate the changes save the file and reboot the computer shell command reboot The computer will boot up with it s new network settings Client Installation The sat nms M amp C system is able to work as a stand alone system operated at it s keyboard amp sc
3. notepad known from the MS Windows operating system and vi is the modal behavior of vi This means vi treats keystrokes in a different way depending on it s current mode The two most important modes of vi are the COMMAND mode and the INSERT mode In COMMAND mode each keystroke tells the editor to do something Even plain characters are commands C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 38 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH rather than they are inserted into the text The advantage of this COMMAND mode is that you can operate the editor without any special keys arrows or function keys In contrast the INSERT mode lets you enter text but no commands You have to switch between these modes while you are editing a text Early versions of vi really didn t provide any commands while in INSERT mode vim is much more flexible with this e g you may move around the text using the cursor keys even if you are in INSERT mode The vi editor contains a extensive online help manual which you can view from within the editor Type the key followed by h and earen The editor splits the window and shows the online help in the upper part Type q to remove the help again Shelp txt For Vin version 5 3 Last modification 1998 Aug 23 VIM main help file k Move around Use the cursor keys or h to go left K d j to go down k to go up l to go right j Close this window Use tq lt Enter gt Get
4. USES_ETHERNET yes ETHER_ADDR 192 168 2 222 ETHER SNET 192 29 2 n ETHER_NASK 255 eanslangtclengen x Li ETHER_ADDR Terminaloptionen Emulation tuae ML SEE C VrS2 IV Blinkender Cursor VT 100 ANSI VW Cursor als K stchen Set this to yes ULC to talk with 1 M YT100 Pfeiltasten Schriftarten USES SCC no Buffergr e 24 Hintergrundfarbe SCC_ADDR 6 6 6 6 SCC SNET 0 8 8 8 SCC_MASK 255 255 255 255 Set this to yes if you have a modem terminal adapter connected to dev ttyS6 and you want to use a PSTN line for the ULC NHS INSERT 35 1 27 it is important to have the following parameters set e No local echo selected e The VT100 ANSI emulation chosen e The buffer size set to 24 lines e VT100 cursor keys enabled With these settings you get most comfortable control about the vi editor in the telnet window Text scrolling C 2013 SatService GmbH WWNW satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 40 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH works as you expect with a buffer size of 24 lines with the VT100 cursor keys enabled you can move in the text even in INSERT mode The keys Ins Del Pos1 End Pg Up and Pg Dn do not work You should not try to use them as they might insert strange characters in the text instead of doing the function you expect C 2013 SatService GmbH WWW satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 41 41
5. amp C Serial IO Card Configuration 7 31 M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration 13 31 M amp C Serial IQ Card Configuration 14 ie Hess Ha Era Baia la 31 Serial IO Hardware Setting 4 PORT II 3l Serial IO Hardware Setting PORT In 33 Serial IO Hardware Setting 4 PORT 3 sssessssssssssssssseeseeenene eene enne i n enn nennen 34 Serial IO Hardware Setting 8 PORT II 35 Serial IO Hardware Setting 8 PORT 2 sss emen nennen nnn eene seen irre ai 36 Serial IO Hardware Setting 8 PORT n 36 Serial IO Hardware Setting ROCKET II 37 Serial IO Hardware Setting ROCKET IN 37 Serial IO Hardware Setting ROCKET 3 leeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeee eee eee eene ennt ttt ete esaet taana 37 Serial IO Hardware Setting OUNTBL LION 37 A short introduction LO VE eet ege ir ue di tenen eet eee cite Par Eed SE ee eg 38 Common commands ote orare etae e Eres ablehnen Fa com pesi cux eisernen nee 39 vi in the MS Windows telnet chent 40 C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 2 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 3 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH Introduction This manual describes the basic steps how to install and maintain a sat nms monitoring amp control system M amp C It complements the online help user manual of the software While the user manual primarily explain
6. an entry looking like this uncomment this entry to enable the automatic daily backup 33 5 6 root usr local bin backup to floppy Remove the dash in front of the 33 this activates the background job The backup will be done every morning at 5 33 am UTC if the computer s clock is running at UTC Save the file and leave the editor Esc X m For new system you can configure these settings manually by setting SATNMS BACKUP ZIP yes in the file etc satnms rc You do not need the edit etc crontab because its already configured to 3 30 in the morning Now at every evening insert a ZIP disk to the drive The M amp C system automatically will do the backup in the following morning By using 7 disks in a rotating way you get a one week backup Data restore Restoring the data stored with the backup facility is as simple as doing the manual backup Perform the following steps 1 Stop the M amp C server process Select System Administration gt Stop M amp C service from the start menu for this Insert the ZIP disk with the backup data to restore 3 Select System Administration gt Restore from ZIP from the start menu to read the data from the ZIP disk The M amp C system ejects the ZIP disk after it has read the data 4 Re boot the M amp C system by selecting System Administration gt Reboot computer I9 The M amp C system shuts down and re boots Advanced backup b Automatic Backup p Wi
7. card which is compatible to Linux the units are pre configured to work with a fixed set of card configurations The following types of cards are supported by the M amp C system Moxa This is a family of 4 port 8 port passive serial cards which are available with RS232 Smartio Industrio or RS422 485 interfaces and various types of connectors series Comtrol The Rocketport is an active 8 port card providing 8 RJ45 connectors directly on the Rocketport card s back Moxa Intellio The Intellio C320 is an active card which uses it s own processor to manage the data C320 Turbo exchange to up to 32 ports for each card The IO ports are located in rack mountable modules containing 8 or 16 ports each Digi Etherlite m For large systems an external terminal server may provide a nearly arbitrary Terminal Server number of serial ports The terminal server is connected to the VLC via Ethernet The serial IO cards are not automatically recognized by the M amp C system Each card must be configured to the address irq settings expected by the software Then the software must be told which cards are installed The card configuration is defined in the configuration files etc init d setserial and etc init d intellio Both files contain a variable definition at one for the first lines The SERIAL variable defines the Smartio Industrio or Rocketport boards to be used The INTELLIO variable defines the number IO ports connected to
8. computer The M amp C system shuts down and re boots with the settings from the backup DA E 9 C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 20 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH Crash Recovery The M amp C system comes with a system recovery CD which enables you to re install the M amp C software as well as the underlying Linux operating system on the M amp C computer Before you start with the recovery procedure below ensure that the hardware fault which has broken the M amp C system is fixed Then the following steps have to be done A Boot the recovery CD Switch on the M amp C computer Before the computer tries to boot insert the recovery CD When the screen shows LILO boot hit geg The Linux rescue system booting now automatically logs you on as root If you are using a non American keyboard you might use the kmap command to load the appropriate keyboard driver example kmap de FEIND B Partition the hard disk The next step is to partition the hard disk Use the fdisk command to delete all existing partitions on the hard disk then create the new partitions 1 Type fdisk dev hda meet to start fdisk 2 Type p Et to show the partition table of the disk If there are already any partitions of the disk delete them by typing d ER followed by the partition number You should start with the higher numbers if there is more than one partition 3 Create
9. ftp server for backups Set to none to disable ftp backups SATNMS_BACKUP_FTP 192 168 2 33 IP address or hostname of the ssh server for backups Set to none to disable scp backups SATNMS_BACKUP_SCP 192 168 2 33 username for ftp and scp SATNMS_BACKUP_USER mnc password for ftp use dsa public keys in root ssh for scp SATNMS_BACKUP_PASS mnc EHER HH HH Modem settings HEHE B BF H HH 4 Set this to yes if you have a modem terminal adapter connected 4 to dev ttyS0 and you want to use a PSTN line for the VLC NMS communication Default is no H SATNMS MODEM USE no Baud rate the tty rate to be used to the modem SATNMS_MODEM_BAUD 38400 Init string is sent by mgetty to the modem every minute to initialize the modem SATNMS MODEM INIT AT amp F THEHHHHHHHBHHHHHHHHHBHBHBHHBHHHHHHHHHBHBHBHBHHHHHHHHBHF RH HHHBHHHHBHHRHHHHHBHHHBHH FH Setup program settings C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 15 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH THHHHHHHHHHHHHHHBHHHBMHHHBHHHMHHMNHHBMHNHHBHHNHHMHHHHMHHHNHHHHHMHHHBHHHHBNHHNMHHMHHBHHHMHHHHHHHBHHHNMHHHHHHHI apply new configuration to system files manual or on reboot SATNMS_CONF_APPLY manual C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 16 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH System Administration The M amp C computer in fact
10. may be combined with one internal serial board Either one board 8 16 24 or 32 ports two boards 40 48 S ATNMS_INTELLIO 0 Digi EtherLite TCP IP terminal server If you say yes here the Digi els driver is launched on system the file etc els conf must be adapted to the unit s configuration you want to access startup You must have a running Ethernet interface for this S ATNMS_ETHERLITE no HHH H HH H H HH H H HHH H HH H H HH H HH HH HH EH H H H H EH H Date and Time THEHHHHHHBHHBHHBHHHBHHBHBHBHHBHHBHBHBHHHHHHBHBHHHHHBHHH HH HH HH HH HH EH HH HH HH HH E E Name of NTP Server for clock synchronization Set to none to disable clock sync SATNMS TIME NTP 192 168 2 1 Name of Daytime Server for clock synchronization Set to none to disable clock sync SATNMS_TIME_DAYTIME none C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 14 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH THEHHHBHHHHHHHHHFIHHBHHHHHHHHHHHHBHBHBHBHHHHHH HH HHHH HH BH HF B I B B HH HARRAH Backup settings EELER Setting for the automatic backup of sat nms data yes to enable automatic backup to the zip drive SATNMS_BACKUP_ZIP yes yes to enable automatic backup from sat nms ACU ODM SATNMS_BACKUP_ODM yes yes to enable automatic backup from sat nms LBRX SATNMS_BACKUP_LBRX yes IP address or hostname of the
11. name it s serial ports This scheme makes it easy to match port connections and the corresponding port names in the software 4 8 port The port names are built as ttySik where i is the number of the board 1 3 and k is the cards number of the port in the board 1 8 The latter port number matches that one printed on the boards bracket or on the individual connector Example ttyS23 designates the third port on the second board Intellio The port names are built as ttyikl where i is the number of the board A CH k is the cards number of the external IO module 1 4 and is the individual port number at this module 1 8 Please note that 16 port modules are treated by the driver like 2 8 port modules in one housing They occupy 2 module addresses where the first contains the ports 1 8 the second one the ports 8 16 Example ttyA18 designates the 8th port at the first module connected to the first Intellio C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 28 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH board Etherlite The Etherlite serial port driver automatically assigns names to the ports it manages The names ports are ttyN where the question marks are replaced by a number which identifies the individual port Please refer to the Digi software documentation for the numbering scheme used M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration 1 N
12. nms password file 4 name password level anonymous anonymous 150 w Another default user for new systems is satnms with password satnms and a privilege level of 150 A user entry of the password file consists of three fields separated by semicolons The first field defines the login name the second field the password and the last field defines the privilege level for this user Empty lines and lines beginning with a dash are ignored Data Backup amp Restore The M amp C system is prepared to do a backup of all individual data stored on the M amp C computer either on a regular basis or at an operator s request For this purpose the M amp C computer is equipped with a ZIP disk drive m New systems offers some advanced backup features described in the next chapter Manual backup To do a backup manually insert a ZIP disk into the drive and select System Administration gt Backup to ZIP from the start menu The M amp C system does the backup and ejects the ZIP disk when the backup has completed The backup process writes one file called backup tgz to the disk each subsequent backup overwrites the old file on the disk Doing the backup manually is the recommended method if you primarily want to backup your configuration files They need to be saved only after they have been changed Once the M amp C system has been set up the configuration probably will not be changed for a longer time You should do a backup in the foll
13. one or more Intellio boards The card configuration is defined in etc satnms rc and the variable SATNMS SERIAL defines the combination of interface cards SATNMS INTELLIO defines the number of IO ports connected to one or more Intellio boards You can use the setup program to configure these settings 4 8 Port Cards The following table shows the configurations which can be selected with the parameter SERIAL The table uses the abbreviations 4 PORT 8 PORT and ROCKET for Moxa Smartio Industrio series and Rocketport cards respectively SERIAL Card 1 Card 2 Card 3 0 gt E 1 4 PORT 2 4 PORT 4 PORT 3 8 PORT 4 8 PORT 4 PORT l 5 8 PORT 4 PORT 4 PORT 6 8 PORT 8 PORT l 7 8 PORT 8 PORT 4 PORT 8 8 PORT 8 PORT 8 PORT C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 27 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH ROCKET ROCKET 4 PORT ROCKET 4 PORT 4 PORT ROCKET ROCKET ROCKET ROCKET 4 PORT ROCKET ROCKET ROCKET Ils l I Ko KEEEEIE The ports provided by these cards are named following a fixed scheme making it easy to link port names to connector names Moxa Intellio Cards The sat nms M amp C system has the necessary driver software for Moxa Intellio boards pre installed The file etc init d intellio controls the activation of the
14. only jumper on this board E OH HG ul Switch on the unit 6 Before the computer boots insert the CD labeled MOXA configuration into the computer s CD ROM drive The computer will boot Free DOS a MS DOS like operating system with this CD 7 At the DOS prompt enter MOXA 8 The configuration program first asks to select the card type choose Smartio then it asks for the board address Enter A700 9 Set the port addresses and IRQs according to the table shown below IO Port 380 388 390 398 IRQ 11 11 11 11 Speed Normal Normal Normal Normal Int Vec 10 Press F10 to save the changes 11 Remove the jumper from the board C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 34 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH 12 Close the housing and reboot the M amp C system CTRL ALT DEL The RS485 version of the 4 port card additionally has 4 jumpers to enable the line termination resistors and eight dip switches to select the behavior of the RS485 RS422 ports The M amp C system software uses a RS422 4 wire cabling with most of the equipment The switch positions to operate all ports in RS422 mode is shown below TTITTTIT The jumpers for enabling the termination resistors are places beside the connector at the board s bracket By closing the pins with a jumper a termination resistor of 120 ohms gets placed across the receive lines of t
15. out of Vim Use tqal lt Enter gt careful all changes are lost Jump to a subject Position the cursor on a tag between Ibars and hit CTRL With the mouse set mouse a to enable the mouse in xterm or GUI Double click the left mouse button on a tag between lbarsl jump back Type CTRL T or CTRL O Get specific help It is possible to go directly to whatever you want help on by giving an argument to the help command l helpl It is possible to further specifu the context WHAT PREPEND EXAMPLE S Normal mode commands nothing gt thelp x Visual mode commands v thelp vu Insert mode commands 1 thelp i Esc o vlcroot etc rc vlc RO help txt RO 1185L 55790C The following chapter lists the most frequently used commands for the vi editor as a reference Common commands The table below lists some frequently used commands for the vi editor Pleas note that all the commands except must be typed in COMMAND mode This means if the editor is in another mode than the COMMAND mode you have to press the key first Commands starting with a colon are so called ex commands which are entered in the command status line at the bottom of the terminal window As soon as you press the colon character in COMMAND mode the cursor jumps to the bottom line and lets you edit the command Press to complete the command or to return to COMMAND mode without changing anything Mode changes zm Leave t
16. partitions Now you have to create the Linux file systems on the disk partitions Type the following mke2fs dev hdal mkswap dev hda2 D Copy the Linux system from the CD ROM to the disk Now install the Linux system on the M amp C computer The sequence of commands is umask 000 mount dev hdc cdrom mount dev hda1 mnt cd mnt tar xzvpf cdrom linux tgz cd umount mnt Installing this may take some minutes depending on the speed of the computer By using the v flag with tar you see the name of each file which is going to be installed you see that the computer is working not frozen E Boot the installed Linux the first time Now you have to boot the installed Linux system the very first time It is till not yet able to boot by itself so leave the CD in the drive 1 Type reboot eg 2 After the computer booted again when it prompts LILO boot enter linux root dev hdal geg Be aware that the computer at this early stage expects an American keyboard To type the use the key next to the right shift key you will find left beside the backspace key in the top row of the main keyboard block 3 Logon as root password root 4 Type lilo gece The new Linux installation is now bootable but the M amp C application is not able to run as up to now there are no files installed which configure the software for your application E Restore the customer specific data Finally remove the rescue CD from
17. the drive and type reboot eme The M amp C system now shuts down and re boots with the X Windows graphical login screen C 2013 SatService GmbH WWW satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 22 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH Login as user mnc password mnc and restore the application data from the recent backup ZIP disk Use the procedure described at the last paragraph of the chapter Data Backup amp Restore C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 23 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH Miscellaneous This section contains some topics which are not covered by the Installation and Administration sections ofthis manual They are e Integrating the M amp C system into a NMS e Maintaining a spare M amp C computer e Clock synchronisation Integrating the M amp C system into a NMS A M amp C system may be controlled by a superordinate sat nms network management software From this software s point of view the M amp C system looks like a VLC a VSAT local controller As there are yet some small differences you should consider the following e The computer s name hostname of a M amp C system usually is satnms as long as you didn t change this To the NMS software a VLC must appear as vlc where HH is the ID of the VLC You achieve this by modifying the file runmnc in the application s home directory The line containing the jre c
18. 22 ttyS23 ttyS24 board2 C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 29 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH ttyS31 ttyS32 ttyS33 ttyS34 board3 M amp XC Serial IO Card Configuration 6 No of boards 2 No of ports 16 Board 1 Moxa Smartio Industrio 8 port board at 0x180 IRQ 10 Board 2 Moxa Smartio Industrio 8 port board at 0x200 IRO 5 tty names ttyS11 ttyS12 ttyS13 ttyS14 ttyS15 ttyS16 ttyS17 ttyS18 board1 ttyS21 ttyS22 ttyS23 ttyS24 ttyS25 ttyS26 ttyS27 ttyS28 board2 M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration 7 No of boards 3 No of ports 20 Board 1 Moxa Smartio Industrio 8 port board at 0x180 IRQ 10 Board 2 Moxa Smartio Industrio 8 port board at 0x200 IRQ 5 Board 3 Moxa Smartio Industrio 4 port board at 0x380 IRQ 11 tty names ttyS11 ttyS12 ttyS13 ttyS14 ttyS15 ttyS16 ttyS17 ttyS18 board1 ttyS21 ttyS22 ttyS23 ttyS24 ttyS25 ttyS26 ttyS27 ttyS28 board2 ttyS31 ttyS32 ttyS33 ttyS34 board3 M amp XC Serial IO Card Configuration 8 No of boards 3 No of ports 24 Board 1 Moxa Smartio Industrio 8 port board at 0x180 IRO 10 Board 2 Moxa Smartio Industrio 8 port board at 0x200 IRQ 5 Board 3 Moxa Smartio Industrio 8 port board at 0x380 IRQ 11 tty names ttyS11 ttyS12 ttyS13 ttyS14 ttyS15 ttyS16 ttyS17 ttyS18 board1 ttyS21 ttyS22 tty
19. 5 5 5 5 Speed Normal Normal Normal Normal Int Vec Press F10 to save the changes Remove the jumper from the board Close the housing and reboot the M amp C system CTRL ALT DEL The RS485 version of the 4 port card additionally has 4 jumpers to enable the line termination resistors and eight dip switches to select the behavior of the RS485 RS422 ports The M amp C system software uses a RS422 4 wire cabling with most of the equipment The switch positions to operate all ports in RS422 mode is shown below C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 33 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH n DT e The jumpers for enabling the termination resistors are places beside the connector at the board s bracket By closing the pins with a jumper a termination resistor of 120 ohms gets placed across the receive lines of the port Serial IO Hardware Setting 4 PORT 3 To install a Moxa Smartio Industrio 4 port board in a M amp C system as the third serial board the IO port and IRQ settings of the board must be changed to 0x380 IRQ 11 by means of the DOS based configuration utility shipped with the board The following steps describe how to install the card into a running M amp C system Shut down the M amp C system switch it off Open the housing Install the board in a free slot Install the jumper at the rounded corner of the board it s the
20. HHHHHHHHHHNHHBHHHHHHHHHHHHHBHHIN I Serial interface settings VRHHHHHHHHHHHBHHHHHHBHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHBHHHHHHHHHBHBHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHBHHI Sets up the serial ports passive cards and Comtrol Rocketport cards in the computer Replaces the original Debian setserial script 4 port MOXA Smartio Industrio 4 port card 8 port MOXA Smartio Industrio 8 port card Basically three types of cards are supported rocketport Comtrol Rocketport 8 port card C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 13 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH The variable SATNMis SERIAL selects one of 15 combinations of cards The software documentation shows the address irq settings vor each board in each particular configuration 9 no cards 1 4 port 2 4 port 4 port 3 8 port 4 8 port 4 port 5 8 port 4 port 4 port 6 8 port 8 port 7 8 port 8 port 4 port 8 8 port 8 port 8 port 9 ROCKET 10 ROCKET 4 port 11 ROCKET 4 port 4 port 12 ROCKET ROCKET 13 ROCKET ROCKET 4 port 14 ROCKET ROCKET ROCKET ATNMS_SERIAL 2 MOXA Intellio C320 Turbo cards 8 96 ports Select the number of ports multiples of 8 which are accessible through C320 Turbo boards Say 0 if there is no C320 card in the MNC 56 or 64 ports or three boards 72 80 88 or 96 ports may be installed One C320 board may be combined with one or two internal boards Two C320 boards
21. IP switch located at the card s bracket The table below shows the settings for this card Card 1 at 0xdc000 IRQ 11 Switch Setting Card 3 at 0xd4000 IRQ 10 Switch Setting A short introduction to vi vi is the standard text editor used on Unix systems The M amp C system being based on the Linux operating system uses an enhanced version of vi called vim vi improved The paragraphs below give a short introduction how to use this text editor m The new version contains also the Midnight Commander with an integrated editor type mc at the command prompt to start the file manager and type mcedit filename where filename is the path to the file which you want to edit to start the editor While running MC you can browse through the directories of the system and manipulate files Use the function keys F1 F10 or select the functions from the menu First of all why to use vi vi is known to be difficult to learn as it s concept is different as you might expect There are other text editors available for Linux which are easier to handle The answer is vi turned out to be the only text editor program which works in a satisfying way when used in the Microsoft Windows telnet client If you are going to maintain and configure a sat nms network management system you will find it comfortable even to do configuration jobs from your desk The most important difference between text editors like the
22. MNC IM 1308 Page 17 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH save delete and overwrite presets The privilege level 150 gives complete access to allsettings in the software This is the privilege level of the M amp C system administrator The privilege level regulates the write permission of the operator to software parameters or device settings Read only access is permitted to every operator even if he is not logged in With a customer designed a k a task oriented user interface additional privilege levels may defined In such an application specific setup it is possible e g to give a group of operators the permission to work on the receive equipment only while other operators may change the settings of the transmit equipment too Password file The list of users together with the password and privilege levels is stored in the file users located in the home directory of the M amp C application Please note the leading dot in the file name it makes the file hidden in a directory listing The M amp C system administrator logged in as Linux user mnc is permitted to modify this file M amp C operators cannot change their passwords only the M amp C system administrator can do this by modifying the users file m Use the user satnms instead of mnc The M amp C system comes with a default user called anonymous in the users file The entry demonstrates the format of the password file 4 sat
23. S23 ttyS24 ttyS25 ttyS26 ttyS27 ttyS28 board2 ttyS31 ttyS32 ttyS33 ttyS34 ttyS35 ttyS36 ttyS37 ttyS38 board3 M amp XC Serial IO Card Configuration 9 No of boards 1 No of ports 8 Board 1 Comtrol Rocketport board at 0x180 tty names ttyS11 ttyS12 ttyS13 ttyS14 ttyS15 ttyS16 ttyS17 ttyS18 board1 M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration 10 No of boards 2 No of ports 12 Board 1 Comtrol Rocketport board at 0x180 Board 2 Moxa Smartio Industrio 4 port board at 0x200 IRQ 5 tty names ttyS11 ttyS12 ttyS13 ttyS14 ttyS15 ttyS16 ttyS17 ttyS18 board1 C 2013 SatService GmbH WWW satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 30 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH ttyS21 ttyS22 ttyS23 ttyS24 board2 M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration 11 No of boards 3 No of ports 16 Board 1 Comtrol Rocketport board at 0x180 Board 2 Moxa Smartio Industrio 4 port board at 0x200 IRQ 5 Board 3 Moxa Smartio Industrio 4 port board at 0x380 IRQ 11 tty names ttyS11 ttyS12 ttyS13 ttyS14 ttyS15 ttyS16 ttyS17 ttyS18 board1 ttyS21 ttyS22 ttyS23 ttyS24 board2 ttyS31 ttyS32 ttyS33 ttyS34 board3 M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration 12 No of boards 2 No of ports 16 Board 1 Comtrol Rocketport board at 0x180 Board 2 Comtrol Rocketport board at 0x200 t
24. all in this file mus be modified to contain a Dhostname parameter as shown in the example below jre cp satnms jar Dhostname vlc0002 satnms vlc Server m To change the hostname of the M amp C system simply use the setup program or edit the sat nms configuration file etc satnms rc e A M amp C system provides it s local event log data base If used in a NMS the event log is located at the NMS rather at the M amp C system You have to change this at the device window of the SYSTEM device at the user interface e When operated as a M amp C system the file home mnc screens default at the M amp C computer contains the definition of the primary user interface screen With a NMS this is the file home nms vscreens vlc located at the NMS computer A convenient method to change this is copying the file via FTP If the M amp C system uses more than one user interface screen the alternate screens must be copied to the NMS computer too a pm the files are located in home satnms screens on the M amp C system e For detailt information about connecting a M amp C system VLC to the NMS please refer to the chapter Network configuration auf the VLC Installation Manual Maintaining a spare M amp C computer In many applications M amp C systems are in use 24 hours a day and 7 days in the week Having a second M amp C computer as backup shortens the outage time in case of a hardware failure to less than 15 minutes The following paragra
25. driver at system startup Ports at Moxa Intellio boards are defined by means of the INTELLIO variable defined in this file INTELLIO must be set to the total number of serial ports provided by the modules connected to Intellio boards The M amp C system assumes that the first 32 ports are assigned to board 1 the next 32 ports to to board 2 etc INTELLIO 0 tells the M amp C system that there is no Intellio board in the system Intellio boards may be combined with the 4 8 port boards discussed above however the total number of serial IO cards in the M amp C system must not exceed 3 Intellio cards are configured by jumpers DIP switches The port names generated for Intellio cards follow a similar scheme as the passive cards do amp The variable name was changed to SATNMS INTELLIO Digi Etherlite Terminal Server mm The MNC also supports the Digi Etherlite terminal server series Set the variable SATNMS ETHERLITE in the file etc satnms rc to yes if you have connected one or more terminals servers to the VLC s Ethernet port The terminal servers have to be set to fixed IP addresses within the subnet covered by the subnet of the VLC s Ethernet port To tell the serial port driver which Etherlite units are connected you must edit the file etc els conf For details refer to the Digi user manual and the information available at the Digi web site concerning the Etherlite Linux driver Port Naming The M amp C system uses a fixed scheme to
26. e EE EEN Ne 24 Integrating the M amp C system into a NM 24 Maintaining a spare M amp C computer esses 24 Clock synchronisation 2 u an ea RED ESEL peed cee ti HRS tete etel e d e tete ED eee ren 25 Manually setting the e EE 25 Syncing the clock with a NTP server eenia ee e enne 25 DE DEE ee eege Rah DREES Eed Deeg geet 27 Serial interface board reference 2 n essen ener e did ren 27 41 S Pot Cards ne e ete des re tei te De a pM ERROR E RERO ERI Re 27 Moxa Intelig e EE 28 Digi Etherlite Terminal Server een dienende 28 Eege Er EE 28 M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration 1 sess nnnnnennnne 29 M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration 2 cesses eene hene enne nassen 29 M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration 3 sess eene nennen hehe nnne nennen 29 M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration A 29 M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration 3 29 M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration 6 ccssssssssssssssssesseseeeeeeee eene eene enne hene nennen nemen enne 30 MAC Serial IO Card Configuration ee te i e d an 30 M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration 8 30 M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration 9 csse eene eene a en en ene E E nennen nennen 30 C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 1 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration 10 30 M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration II 31 M
27. e changes 11 Remove the jumper from the board 12 Close the housing and reboot the M amp C system CTRL ALT DEL Serial IO Hardware Setting ROCKET 1 The first Comtrol Rocketport card in the M amp C system computer are operated at 0x180 which is the factory default If you want to install a board which already has been configured to work as second or third board in a M amp C system you have to reset the DIP switch settings as shown in the picture below MT 12345678 Serial IO Hardware Setting ROCKET 2 To use a Comtrol Rocketport card as the second serial board the DIP switches on the board must be set to the configuration shown below MATV 123435878 Please note that the use of a Rocketport card as the second board only is permissible if the first board in the M amp C system also is a Comtrol Rocketport Serial IO Hardware Setting ROCKET 3 To use a Comtrol Rocketport card as the third serial board the DIP switches on the board must be set to the configuration shown below MTV 12345678 Please note that the use of a Rocketport card as the third board only is permissible if both the first and the second board also are Comtrol Rocketport cards C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 37 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH Serial IO Hardware Setting INTELLIO Moxa Intellio boards are configured by setting a jumper on the board to select the IRQ and a D
28. e computers in a regular basis e g once every month First this is a check if the spare computer still works Secondly operator become trained to do the swap In case of emergency the M amp C system will be faster up again Finally swapping the computers prorates the power on hours equally among the computers It is also possible to have both computer running an automatically transfer the configuration from the active to the spare M amp C system Ask SatService GmbH for a special solution which meets your requirements Clock synchronisation The M amp C system uses the time and date from it s internal clock to mark each message in the event log with a time stamp To make the event log information comparable with statements from other sources an accurate clock setting is essential As PC clocks tend to be not very accurate the M amp C clock should be checked at least once a week Principally there are two methods to correct the clock 1 Set the clock manually 2 Read the clock from another computer Without doubt the second method is the more comfortable one It however requires a NTP Network Time Protocol or Daytime server providing the accurate time visible for the M amp C system in the network Manually setting the clock The M amp C system runs a daemon called clktrimd which keeps the Linux system clock in tune with the hardware clock chip built in the computer Setting the clock means setting time and date of the clock chi
29. e e mail program starts If you are familiar with another mail program at your desktop computer you quickly will be oriented with this program If there is some unread mail in the mailbox when you connect with a telnet client to the M amp C system you get a short note about new or unread mail when you log in It is principally possible to read the mail during the telnet session However the text based mail reader the program is called mail is quite difficult to use It is recommended to read the system administrator s mail in front of the M amp C computer M amp C password list The M amp C system uses it s own password protection system to prevent the system from accidentally or even deliberately being misused The fundamental idea of the password protection system is that each operator has to login with a user name and password to the M amp C system to be allowed to change parameters A privilege level assigned to each operator defines if he may change some sensitive settings Privilege levels There are two standard privilege levels used by the M amp C software 100 The privilege level 100 is used for normal operators With this level an operator is permitted to change all equipment settings but not to modify any configuration parameters orto save and overwrite presets 110 The privilege level 110 is used for advanced operators With this level an operator is also allowed to C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com
30. he port Serial IO Hardware Setting 8 PORT 1 The first Moxa Smartio Industrio 8 port board in a M amp C system is operated at at 0x180 IRQ 10 which is the factory default setting for these boards So usually the board can be used out of the box If you want to install a board which already has been configured to work as second or third board in a M amp XC system you have to reset the IO IRQ settings of this board The following steps describe how to install the card into a running M amp C system Shut down the M amp C system switch it off Open the housing Install the board in a free slot Install the jumper at the rounded corner of the board it s the only jumper on this board RWNP em Switch on the unit 6 Before the computer boots insert the CD labeled MOXA configuration into the computer s CD ROM drive The computer will boot Free DOS a MS DOS like operating system with this CD 7 Atthe DOS prompt enter MOXA 8 The configuration program first asks to select the card type choose Smartio then it asks for the board address Enter A700 9 Set the port addresses and IRQs according to the table shown below IO Port 180 188 190 198 1A0 1A8 1B0 1B8 C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 35 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH IRQ 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 Speed Normal Normal Normal Normal Normal Norma
31. he INSERT mode revert to COMMAND mode i Go to INSERT mode Cursor movements k Up j Down h Left l Right 0 Start of line End of line gg First line of the text G Last line of the text C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 39 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH Block range commands v Start visual mode this marks the block start y Yank the marked block into the paste buffer x Yank the marked block and delete it from the text P Paste the contents of the buffer before the cursor position te File buffer commands qa Quit abandon all changes Xa Exit save changes e file name Edit a file in a separate buffer bn Step through buffers Find replace commands pattern Goto the next occurrence of pattern N Repeat the last search s pattern text gc Replace each occurrence of pattern in the document with rest Ask for confirmation before executing each replace You normally will use the cursor keys at your keyboard for moving in the text rather than typing the commands shown in the table above If however the cursor keys do not work for some reason knowing the command characters may be very helpful vi in the MS Windows telnet client To make the MS Windows telnet client work well with the vi editor you should configure the telnet client as shown below 8 Telnet orion PER Verbinden Bearbeiten Terminal
32. ile called satnms jar There are two options where the satnms jar file is located 1 local copy on you client computer 2 remote copy on the public network share on M amp C system local copy You have to copy this file to the client computer and finally to create a link to start the program The procedure is as follows 1 Use the Windows Explorer to create a new directory called c satnms You can use another name and location for the directory as well 2 If you are using a dial up connection to the M amp C system start this connection 3 Connect a new network drive e g s to the share aaa bbb ccc ddd public where aaa bbb ccc ddd is to be replaced by the IP address of the M amp C system 4 Browse the drive ei it contains a file satnms jar 5 Copy the file satnms jar to the directory c satnms with a dial up connection this may take some seconds satnms jar is almost 1 MByte remote copy You have to map a network drive to the public share of the M amp C system and finally to create a link to start the program The procedure is as follows C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 9 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH 1 Connect a new network drive e g s to the share aaa bbb ccc ddd public where aaa bbb ccc ddd is to be replaced by the IP address of the M amp C system and select that the mapping should be established on every reboot 2 Browse the d
33. is a Linux based server running the M amp C process and some other programs in background The M amp C Linux has been tuned to require as little as possible administration effort Almost everything you want to do with the M amp C system you do at the M amp C user interface Anyhow some administrative tasks should be done at the M amp C computer They are e Check your mailbox The Linux based M amp C server provides a local e mail box where you find messages from the background jobs the computer does If a background process detects some failure it sends a mail to you e Maintain the M amp C user list The M amp C software uses it s own password protection system The user password list for this is contained in a file you have to edit e Backup your data Backed up data is not lost if the computer hardware breaks Checking your mail The Linux operating system of M amp C system does a lot of jobs in the background You don t need to care about this If one of these background jobs fails it sends a mail to the mnc user If for example you have configured the M amp C computer to synchronize it s clock to a NTP time server in the net this is done by such a background job If the clock sync was not successful because the time server was unreachable you get informed about this with a mail i 20 23 If there is a message for you the mailbox icon left beside the clock contains a letter Click to the mailbox symbol and a simpl
34. l Normal Normal Int Vec 10 Press F10 to save the changes 11 Remove the jumper from the board 12 Close the housing and reboot the M amp C system CTRL ALT DEL Serial IO Hardware Setting 8 PORT 2 To install Moxa Smartio Industrio 8 port board in a M amp C system as the second serial board the IO port and IRQ settings of the board must be changed to 0x200 IRQ 5 by means of the DOS based configuration utility shipped with the board The following steps describe how to install the card into a running M amp C system Shut down the M amp C system switch it off Open the housing Install the board in a free slot Install the jumper at the rounded corner of the board it s the only jumper on this board OH ta ul Switch on the unit 6 Before the computer boots insert the CD labeled MOXA configuration into the computer s CD ROM drive The computer will boot Free DOS a MS DOS like operating system with this CD 7 At the DOS prompt enter MOXA 8 The configuration program first asks to select the card type choose Smartio then it asks for the board address Enter A700 9 Set the port addresses and IRQs according to the table shown below IO Port 200 208 210 218 220 228 230 238 IRQ 5 5 5 Speed Normal Normal Normal Normal Normal Normal Int Vec 10 Press F10 to save the changes 11 Remove the jumper fro
35. ly consists of five major steps Depending on what you have purchased from SatService GmbH not all of these steps will be applicable for you m For the configuration steps 2 and 3 the new version provides a setup program 1 Installation cabling As a first step you have to mount the M amp C computer into the rack and connect it to the devices it shall control 2 Serial interface configuration In most cases you will be able to skip this You surely will have purchased the M amp C system with the number of serial interfaces you require Nevertheless this manual contains a guidance how to add more serial interface to the M amp C system 3 Network configuration The M amp C system will work on it s own without any network link installed To use features like operating the M amp C from another computer or remote assistance from SatService GmbH you will however have to connect the M amp C to a local area network This manual describes how to do the necessary network parameter settings at the M amp C computer 4 Client installation The M amp C system is able to be remotely operated from any MS Windows or Linux based computer A network link to the M amp C system permanent or dial up is the only prerequisite A chapter of this manual instructs how to install the user interface software on a client computer 5 Configuration setup The M amp C system must be configured for it s application before you can use it While this i
36. m the board 12 Close the housing and reboot the M amp C system CTRL ALT DEL Serial IO Hardware Setting 8 PORT 3 To install Moxa Smartio Industrio 8 port board in a M amp C system as the third serial board the IO port and IRQ settings of the board must be changed to 0x380 IRQ 11 by means of the DOS based configuration utility shipped with the board The following steps describe how to install the card into a running M amp C system 1 Shut down the M amp C system switch it off 2 Open the housing 3 Install the board in a free slot C 2013 SatService GmbH WWNW satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 36 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH 4 Install the jumper at the rounded corner of the board it s the only jumper on this board ul Switch on the unit 6 Before the computer boots insert the CD labeled MOXA configuration into the computer s CD ROM drive The computer will boot Free DOS a MS DOS like operating system with this CD 7 Atthe DOS prompt enter MOXA 8 The configuration program first asks to select the card type choose Smartio then it asks for the board address Enter A700 9 Set the port addresses and IRQs according to the table shown below IO Port 380 388 390 398 3A0 3A8 3B0 3B8 IRQ 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Speed Normal Normal Normal Normal Normal Normal Normal Normal Int Vec 10 Press F10 to save th
37. mp C system can access it Some card types are configured with jumpers or DIP switches other with a special software 2 Install the interface card in the M amp C computer 3 Tell the M amp C system that the card is installed Chapter Serial interface board reference explains which card types can be used with the M amp C system and how to configure cards and software to work together Network configuration The M amp C computer comes with it s IP address set to 192 168 2 222 To change this address to your needs two steps are to be done These steps are valid for the new and the old version of M amp C systems but for the new version you can use the setup program instead 1 Change the etc network interfaces file The IP address of the computer s Ethernet interface is defined in the file etc network interfaces You need root privileges to change this definition Below there is an example for this file C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 7 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH etc network interfaces configuration file for ifup 8 ifdown 8 The loopback interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback The first network card this entry was created during the Debian installation network broadcast and gateway are optional auto ethO iface eth inet static address 192 168 2 222 netmask 255 255 255 0 network 192 168 2 0 broadcast 192 168 2 255 gateway 192 168 2 1
38. o of boards 1 No of ports 4 Board 1 Moxa Smartio Industrio 4 port board at 0x180 IRQ 10 tty names ttyS11 ttyS12 ttyS13 ttyS14 board1 M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration 2 No of boards 2 No of ports 8 Board 1 Moxa Smartio Industrio 4 port board at 0x180 IRQ 10 Board 2 Moxa Smartio Industrio 4 port board at 0x200 IRQ 5 tty names ttyS11 ttyS12 ttyS13 ttyS14 board1 ttyS21 ttyS22 ttyS23 ttyS24 board2 M amp XC Serial IO Card Configuration 3 No of boards 1 No of ports 8 Board 1 Moxa Smartio Industrio 8 port board at 0x180 IRQ 10 tty names ttyS11 ttyS12 ttyS13 ttyS14 ttyS15 ttyS16 ttyS17 ttyS18 board1 M amp XC Serial IO Card Configuration 4 No of boards 2 No of ports 12 Board 1 Moxa Smartio Industrio 8 port board at 0x180 IRQ 10 Board 2 Moxa Smartio Industrio 4 port board at 0x200 IRQ 5 tty names ttyS11 ttyS12 ttyS13 ttyS14 ttyS15 ttyS16 ttyS17 ttyS18 board1 ttyS21 ttyS22 ttyS23 ttyS24 board M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration 5 No of boards 3 No of ports 16 Board 1 Moxa Smartio Industrio 8 port board at 0x180 IRQ 10 Board 2 Moxa Smartio Industrio 4 port board at 0x200 IRQ 5 Board 3 Moxa Smartio Industrio 4 port board at 0x380 IRQ 11 tty names ttyS11 ttyS12 ttyS13 ttyS14 ttyS15 ttyS16 ttyS17 ttyS18 board1 ttyS21 ttyS
39. ost name of the machine to sync with 2 If you want to sync the clock to a NTP time server set SATNMS TIME NTP to the IP address or host name of the machine to sync 3 Run the program usr local bin set clock from network The M amp C system now will set it s clock chip every day at 12 00 from this NTP server If this fails a mail is sent to the operator If you want to sync the clock at another time or in other intervals modify the file etc crontab to your needs Instead of NTP the M amp C system also is capable to use the traditional Unix DAYTIME service for syncing the clock If the M amp C system is working in a Linux Unix network with a computer offering the DAYTIME TCP service you alternatively may set the DAYTIME SERVER definition instead of the NTP SERVER Please note that a M amp C system which is integrated to a sat nms network management system should not use this method of clock synchronization With the sat nms NMS software the NMS service provides the master clock for all affiliated VLCs M amp C systems C 2013 SatService GmbH WWW satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 26 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH Appendix e Serial interface board reference e Ashort introduction to vi Serial interface board reference A M amp C system system can contain up to three serial IO cards which add RS232 or RS422 485 interfaces to the unit While principally the M amp C system works with any serial IO
40. owing cases e If you changed the configuration of the M amp C setup Please have in mind that even small changes like a modified interface timeout or an updated calibration for a transmit power control loop must be saved e If something with the Linux configuration e g the networking parameters have been modified C 2013 SatService GmbH WWW satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 18 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH e It is also a good idea to back up the configuration before you start to change the M amp C system configuration If the M amp C system does not work as expected after the change you have the chance to restore the state before the change If you do manual backups you should use at least two disks Use the disks on a rotating basis you will be able to restore an older state if you backed up the M amp C system with some data already corrupted Automatic backup If you must rely on the event log data collected by the M amp C system e g if you derive some billing data from the times with a carrier on air a daily backup is essential You may configure the M amp C system to backup your data every day Use the amp setup program for new systems or perform the following steps for old systems 1 Open an XTerm window 2 Enter su and give the root password root when requested 3 Open the file etc crontab in the editor by typing vi etc crontab About 15 lines below the top of the file you find
41. p clktrimd then will tune the system clock accordingly Depending of the amount of time the clock chip was set it takes a few hours or severals days until the system clock is in sync with the clock chip To set the M amp C system s clock you need root privileges The procedure is as follows 1 Open an XTerm window 2 Become root type in su ewes and the root password 3 Type hwclock set date YYYY MM DD HH MM SS eme 4 Close the window It is recommended to set the NMS clock to UTC rather than to local time Syncing the clock with a NTP server The M amp C system has been prepared to sync it s clock automatically once a week to a NTP reference in the network To activate this option perform the following steps but for the new version amp use the setup program instead 1 Open an XTerm window 2 Become root type in su ees and the root password C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 25 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH 3 Type vi usr local bin set clo ck from netwo rk erer One of the first lines of the file shows NTP_SERVER 4 Insert the IP address of the NTP server to poll between the double quotes 5 Save the file and close the window pe For new systems use the following steps if you don t want to use the setup program 1 If you want to sync the clock to another machine using DAYTIME set SATNMS TIME DAYTIME in etc satnms rc to IP address or h
42. perating system before you can modify the M amp C setup configuration The common login procedure is two step First you have to login as user mnc password mnc When you are logged on as mnc issue the command su which gives you root administrator privileges on this computer When the system asks for the password enter root The username and password of new M amp C s differs from the old version Use user satnms and password satnms to login The root password remains the same root M amp C connectors The picture below showing a part of the M amp C s rear panel denominates the connectors of the M amp C core component for your orientation C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 6 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH Ethernet ttySO keyboard modem security device UPS or terminal i ef Card3 ttyS1 m SSCS Security device E NEEN J Mouse VGA LAN ttySO KBO d Remember to connect the security device coming with the M amp C to the 25 pin connector The M amp C will not work without this Serial interface configuration The M amp C comes with a set of serial interfaces ready installed and configured If you want to change this interface configuration for some reason you have to do three steps for each card to install 1 Prepare the card for the installation Each card needs a certain address and interrupt setting that the M a
43. phs guide how to maintain a backup M amp C computer First one very important advice Backup the M amp C application data regularily Backing up the M amp C system is easy see chapter Data Backup amp Restore in this manual and can be done by every operator Without a usable data backup the backup hardware is quite worthless To exchange the M amp C computer hardware perform the steps described below Shut down the faulty M amp C system switch the computer off Remove all connectors from the M amp C computer Replace the computer by the spare unit Connect only monitor keyboard mouse and mains power to the computer Switch on the computer When the M amp C system is up login as user mnc Restore a recent data backup from ZIP disk as Hu punnr C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 24 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH descibed in chapter Data Backup amp Restore 7 Shut down the computer switch it of after it is down 8 Connect the remaining cables to the M amp C computer 9 Switch the M amp C computer on again After it booted up the M amp C system should be operable again It is important to do the first boot of the spare computer without having the serial interface to the devices connected An outdated configuration of the M amp C software on the spare computer could mess up your equipment With a spare M amp C computer on stock it is a good idea to swap th
44. ports in RS422 mode is shown below The jumpers for enabling the termination resistors are places beside the connector at the board s bracket By closing the pins with a jumper a termination resistor of 120 ohms gets placed across the receive lines of the port C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 32 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH Serial IO Hardware Setting 4 PORT 2 To install Moxa Smartio Industrio 4 port board in a M amp C system as the second serial board the IO port and IRQ settings of the board must be changed to 0x200 IRQ 5 by means of the DOS based configuration utility shipped with the board The following steps describe how to install the card into a running M amp C system PWNP gm 10 11 12 Shut down the M amp C system switch it off Open the housing Install the board in a free slot Install the jumper at the rounded corner of the board it s the only jumper on this board Switch on the unit Before the computer boots insert the CD labeled MOXA configuration into the computer s CD ROM drive The computer will boot Free DOS a MS DOS like operating system with this CD At the DOS prompt enter MOXA The configuration program first asks to select the card type choose Smartio then it asks for the board address Enter A700 Set the port addresses and IRQs according to the table shown below IO Port 200 208 210 218 IRQ
45. r one Both Ethernets are coupled by some sort of router e The client computer connects via modem or ISDN as a RAS client to the network the M amp C system is part of Beside this the network setup suitable for your computer depends of the actual settings you need to connect to the other services you are commonly using Hence there is no universally valid rule how to setup the network options for the client computer Typing ping aaa bbb ccc ddd where aaa bbb ccc ddd is the IP address ofthe M amp C computer at a command prompt should list 4 echoes from the M amp C system then the network link to the M amp C system works If you are working with a dial up connection you must start this connection before Java runtime environment installation You need the Java Runtime Environment JRE Version 1 4 or newer to be installed on the client computer in order to run the M amp C client software You get the JRE from Sun JavaSoft at http java sun com Download the JRE installation file from the URL shown above and install the JRE by double clicking to the icon of the downloaded file When asked by the install program include the files for internationalization i18n even if you intend to use the English language settings only After the installation has finished you may delete the installation file you downloaded unless you want to save it for later use Installing the program The M amp C client program consists of a single f
46. reen In many cases however you may want to operate the M amp C system from another place Any computer running a Microsoft Windows operating system that has a network connection to the M amp C system can be configured to to run the M amp C user interface The following pages describe how to prepare a computer for this purpose 1 Ensure that the network connection to the M amp C system works 2 Install the Java Runtime Environment on the client computer 3 Install the M amp C client program on the client computer To do the installation you need the following prerequisites 1 You must know the IP address of the M amp C system you want to connect to 2 You should be familiar with the MS Windows network setup procedures unless the network setup of your computer matches by default 3 You need an Internet access in order to download the Java Runtime Environment from Sun C 2013 SatService GmbH WWW satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 8 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH Microsystems Inc If you cannot download the JRE you may request a free copy on CD from SatService GmbH Network link To control the M amp C system from another computer you need a working TCP IP network connection to this machine Generally there are three basic scenarios for this e The client computer directly connects via Ethernet to the M amp C system e The client computer connects to one Ethernet the M amp C system to anothe
47. rive s to check if the file satnms jar exists create link You have now the satnms jar file installed locally on you computer or you have a mapped network drive that points to the remote directory with the satnms jar file Finally you have to create a link in the start menu or on the desktop which starts the program for you The steps below describe how to create a link on the computer s desktop 1 Click the desktop with the right mouse button choose New link 2 Enter the following properties for this link Link M amp C Client Program name You may replace this name by any other you like Command javaw cp satnms jar satnms gui MCFrame aaa bbb ccc ddd Replace aaa bbb ccc ddd by the M amp C system s IP address Pay attention to the case of the letters in satnms gui MCFrame the command will not work if you use upper lower case letters other than shown here Working c satnms or s Directory The command will find the satnms jar file only if you fill in the location of this file here 3 Choose an icon for the link The Windows 98 standard icons contain a satellite dish you may want to use Additional command line switches are described in chapter Command Line Arguments Now the installation of the program is finished You should be able to start the M amp C client program by double clicking to the link you installed If not try the trouble shooting steps in the next chapter Command Line Argumen
48. rk This is because first some parameters like the line speed or the device address must be configured Hence open the device window for each device switch to the maintenance page in the device window and inspect the Serial and Setup dialogs The context sensitive online help gives you advice which values to set for a particular equipment type Setup program m The new Version contains a setup program for the basic configuration steps described in the last chapters With this program you can easily the network and serial interface settings of the M amp C system mm You have to login as root see How to connect to the M amp C and then start the program by enter setup at the command prompt The dialog based program ask for the parameters writes them to the sat nms configuration file and finally applies the setting to the system and the appropriate configuration files of the Linux operating system See The file etc satnms rc for a complete list and the complete description of all parameters The file etc satnms rc Below the file etc satnms rc with the factory default settings is listed Comments in the file describe the meaning and valid range of each setting at great length To change some of the settings connect to the M amp XC and login as described in How to connect to the M amp C system and then start the setup program You can also open this file in an editor e g vi or mcedit and Change the parameters at your needs and
49. s a considerably subject on it s own this manual contains a quick guide how to get the M amp C system set up Installation cabling when installing the M amp C system hardware you are advised to do the steps in the following order 1 Mount the M amp C computer into the rack If applicable mount the serial interface connector panels at the rear side of the rack and connect them to the M amp C computer Connect monitor keyboard and mouse Connect the network if applicable Connect the serial interfaces to the devices Finally connect the main power I nu pw How to connect to the M amp C system To access the M amp C system s Linux operating system there are basically three methods 1 Connect a CRT monitor and a keyboard This is the preferred method because you can not only access the running Linux operating system but also the BIOS configuration screen and some MS DOS based configuration programs as well It is recommended to use a CRT monitor rather than a LCD panel as some LCD panels have been reported to refuse syncing to the M amp C s screen resolution amp amp iWith the new M amp C such problems with LCD panels are not known C 2013 SatService GmbH WWW satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 5 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH 2 Connect a terminal to the ttyS1 serial interface The M amp C accepts a VT100 type terminal or a PC running a terminal emulation program at the serial interface
50. s the usage of the software s user interface including aspects of configuration and setup the installation manual contains the following topics The chapter Installation describes how to install the M amp C system hardware and how to do a first setup of the M amp C system In also includes a description how to install the user interface software on a MS Windows based computer Chapter Administration deals with administrative tasks like making backups or maintaining the M amp C user list There is a chapter Crash Recovery on it s own which explains step by step how to re install operating system and application software on a M amp C computer where the hard disk had to be replaced Finally the Appendix provides some reference information amongst other things a complete list of serial interface boards which fit into the M amp C system including a description how to install them This manual coverts also the new version of the M amp C system which SatService delivers since March 2003 with serial numbers greater or equal 1020 Changes in the documentation for the new M amp C systems are marked with the i new gif label pe The Chapter setup program describes the new setup program for the M amp C system configuration Version 1 2 2009 04 21 C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 4 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH Installation The installation of a sat nms M amp C system principal
51. sat nms MNC Monitoring amp Control System Installation Manual Version 1 2 2009 04 21 Copyright SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikatiosnsysteme mbH Hardstrasse 9 D 78256 Steisslingen www satnms com www satservciegmbh de Tel 49 7738 97003 Fax 49 7738 97005 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH Table Of Contents Fable Of 6 01 Coy MH 1 Introduction 12 02 31 ET Ee D ev eeh EE dote uu toon 4 II EVENT n DE 4 Installation cabliig EE 5 How to connect to the M amp C system s str aa E a pe a a a pi a a e 5 Serial interface confisura e e TX re Rinne J Network Configur tion 4 3 e ER ee eR Ere eto Ert ee quere euer e ee ne y Client Installation 4 1 re en tree LE RE I LE 8 Network NE roeie MD c E 9 Java runtime environment installation cesses nennen emen nnne e nennen nnn en nennen 9 Installing the propram z eege Ee EES e eiiis 9 Command Line Arg ments van nah RG ENEE 10 Troubleshooting n euer 22 2a lan 10 Configuration SEWP EE 11 xni urine P 12 The file Vete Satnins EE 12 System Administration 4 er a eE e erea CES E E ee EEEE EE EOE ETE EEE E EEO EEES RERE 17 Checking yout ET 17 M amp C password list erdre ea ar ect erat aae a A a aE eap A e 17 Data Backup amp Restore KEEN ANEREN 18 Advanced backup EE 19 Crash Recoyery ortis ipsi tireo Dent bea piv esea o taeao tireo Ptaa heads paisati 20 Miscellane o s eeb
52. save the file To apply the settings to the Linux operation system call apply setup or set the parameter SATNMS CONF APPLY to reboot and reboot the system This cause the system to apply all settings from etc satnms rc before shutdown C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 12 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH sat nms configuration file H After changing this file run apply setup to execute the changes or set sat nms_CONF_APPLY reboot and reboot the system For easy configuration use the setup program THEHHHHHHHHHHHHIHHBHHBHHHHHHH HH HBHBHHHHHHH HH HH HH HB B HF BB BF B BH HHHHH B BF I HH Basic settings EHER BF HH HH R working mode SATNMS_TYPE mnc vlc mnc hostname A unique identification number for the VLC MNC in the network Must be in the range 1 1600 decimal with a leading vlc e g vlc0002 for VLC s or any valid hostname for MNC systems SATNMS_HOSTNAME mnc001 TEE EELER Network settings HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRHHHHHHHHRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ip address and netmask SATNMS_IP_ADDRESS 192 168 2 222 SATNMS_IP_NETMASK 255 255 255 0 The default gateway set to non if not needed SATNMS_IP_GATEWAY 192 168 2 254 Address of the dns name server set to non if not needed SATNMS_IP_DNSSERVER 192 168 2 253 VRHHHHHHHHHHHBHHHHHHHHBHHHHHHBHHHHHHHHHHHHHBHHHHB
53. ssage here you did not create the c satnms directory 5 Type ping aaa bbb ccc ddd where aaa bbb ccc ddd is the IP address of the M amp C system You should see four echoes from the server one per second If the ping command claims something like timed out you network connection to the M amp C system is not properly set up 6 Finally you can try to start the client program from the command line Type in the following java cp satnms jar satnms gui MCFrame aaa bbb ccc ddd Erg Again replace aaa bbb ccc ddd by the IP address of the M amp C system Configuration Setup To become useful a newly installed M amp C system must be configured for the equipment it shall control Principally there are three steps to do 1 Tell to M amp C system which device is connected to which interface un tty511 NAIS FPx protocol idle 1000 msec Osi N P Latching Relay CJ s2 N FP Latching Relay un tty 512 S Terminal CR CRLF E protocol idle 1000 msec CJ KSTAR 1 SSE KStar we tty513 4 Terminal CR CRLF E protocol idle 1000 msec CJ KSTAR 2 wn tty514 co lo ANTENNA DSatCom wmiysi5 Tandberg Alteia protocol idle 1000 msec The M amp C user interface provides an own window for this Above an example of this window is shown You find a detailed description of this window and it s usage in the online help user manual of the M amp C system 2 Create a user interface
54. th the new MNC system you are able to make backups not only to the local ZIP drive but also to e FTP server File Transfer Protocol e SSH server via SCP Secure copy To enable this backups just use thesetup program or setSATNMS BACKUP FTP C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 19 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH SATNMS BACKUP SCP to the ip address or hostname of the backup server computer For FTP backup yoy have to provide a username and password for the FTP server Backups via SSH SCP requires an username and a trusted public key from the MNC system on your SSH server Consult the manuals of you SSH server how to configure private public key authentication On the MNC system you can create new keys with ssh keygen To configure the username FTP and SCP and password FTP use the setup program or set SATNMS BACKUP USER and SATNMS BACKUP PASS in etc satnms rc Data restore Perform the following steps to restore a backup from a remote server 1 Stop the M amp C server process Select System Administration gt Stop M amp C service from the start menu Open a X Term window shell and login as root FTP Run usr local bin restore from ftp date SSH SCP Run usr local bin restore from scp date date is the date of the backup in the following format yyyymmdd e g 20050123 for 23 January 2005 Re boot the M amp C system by selecting System Administration Reboot
55. the first partition Follow transcript below Operator entries are printed bold Command m for help n Command action e extended p primary partition 1 4 DEER Partition number 1 4 1 m First cylinder 1 1245 default 1 Using default value 1 Last cylinder or size or sizeM or sizeK 1 1245 default 1245 2048M geg 4 Using the same procedure create the second partition Command m for help ns Command action e extended p primary partition 1 4 p EE Partition number 1 4 2 Gara First cylinder 263 1245 default 263 Using default value 263 Last cylinder or size or sizeM or sizeK 264 1245 default 1245 128M ma 5 Make the second partition a swap partition Command m for help rees Partition number 1 4 2 Type 82 que C 2013 SatService GmbH WWW satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 21 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH 6 Make the first partition bootable Command m for help a m Partition number 1 4 1 m 7 Now check the partition table typing p ea This should look like this Start and end cylinders may be different depending on the geometry of you hard disk Disk dev hda 255 heads 63 sectors 1245 cylinders Units cylinders of 16065 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System dev hdal z 1 262 2104483 83 Linux dev hda2 263 279 136552 82 Linux swap 8 Now exit and save the partition table Type w EE C Format the
56. ts You can add additional command line arguments to the command described in the previous chapter option description u username use given username for automatical login p password use given password for automatical login s screen start with defined user screen instead of default screen V enable verbose mode which prints all events to stdout V skip version check at startup n 1 activates new fault signalling n 2 activates new fault signalling and enable beeper if an new fault is arriving Example javaw cp satnms jar satnms gui MCFrame u admin p secret v 192 168 1 1 This starts a client for the M amp C system at IP address 192 168 1 1 with automatic login as admin with password secret and without version checking Troubleshooting C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 10 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH If the client installation does not work as described here a summary how to investigate what went wrong m Open a MS DOS shell window 2 Type java geg You should see a description of options the java program accepts If you get an error message instead you did not install the JRE program properly 3 Type c estes for local or s erg for remote installation and if you get an error message you did not map the network drive properly 4 For local installation type cd satnms ees If you get an error me
57. ttyS1 see the diagram at the end of this chapter You need a special cable for this case wired as shown in the diagram below e 2 ee The cable with 9 pin sub D socket connectors at both sides connects the pins 2 3 and 5 with pin 2 and 3 crossed All other pins are not connected This is important to avoid any interference with the battery power supply function which uses the other lines of this interface The terminal PC must be set to 9600 baud 8 data bits no parity Hardware flow control must be switched off When typing at the terminal you should get a login prompt 3 Connect the M amp C to the LAN and use telnet to login The M amp C system accepts telnet logins at the network interface If you know the actual setup configuration of the M amp C s Ethernet interface specially it s IP address you may con figure a computer to see the M amp C in it s address space and connect this computer via Ethernet to the M amp C Telnet is not prefered for the new M amp C s The M amp C by default is configured to the address 192 168 2 222 4 Connect the M amp C to the LAN and use SSH to login Use the Secure Shell ssh to connect to the M amp C via LAN The connection is encrypted and is much more secure as the plaintext protocol from Telnet The M amp C by default is configured to the address 192 168 2 222 Login procedure Regardless of physical method of connecting to the M amp C you chose you have to login at the Linux o
58. ty names ttyS11 ttyS12 ttyS13 ttyS14 ttyS15 ttyS16 ttyS17 ttyS18 board1 ttyS21 ttyS22 ttyS23 ttyS24 ttyS25 ttyS26 ttyS27 ttyS28 board2 M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration 13 No of boards 3 No of ports 20 Board 1 Comtrol Rocketport board at 0x180 Board 2 Comtrol Rocketport board at 0x200 Board 3 Moxa Smartio Industrio 4 port board at 0x380 IRQ 11 tty names ttyS11 ttyS12 ttyS13 ttyS14 ttyS15 ttyS16 ttyS17 ttyS18 board1 ttyS21 ttyS22 ttyS23 ttyS24 ttyS25 ttyS26 ttyS27 ttyS28 board2 ttyS31 ttyS32 ttyS33 ttyS34 board3 M amp C Serial IO Card Configuration 14 No of boards 3 No of ports 24 Board 1 Comtrol Rocketport board at 0x180 Board 2 Comtrol Rocketport board at 0x200 Board 3 Comtrol Rocketport board at 0x380 tty names ttyS11 ttyS12 ttyS13 ttyS14 ttyS15 ttyS16 ttyS17 ttyS18 board1 ttyS21 ttyS22 ttyS23 ttyS24 ttyS25 ttyS26 ttyS27 ttyS28 board2 ttyS31 ttyS32 ttyS33 ttyS34 ttyS35 ttyS36 ttyS37 ttyS38 board3 Serial IO Hardware Setting 4 PORT 1 The first Moxa Smartio Industrio 4 port board in a M amp C system is operated at at 0x180 IRQ 10 which is the factory default setting for these boards So usually the board can be used out of the box C 2013 SatService GmbH www satnms com MNC IM 1308 Page 31 41 SatService Gesellschaft f r Kommunikationssysteme mbH If you
59. want to install a board which already has been configured to work as second or third board in a M amp C system you have to reset the IO IRQ settings of this board The following steps describe how to install the card into a running M amp C system Shut down the M amp C system switch it off Open the housing Install the board in a free slot Install the jumper at the rounded corner of the board it s the only jumper on this board P a 5 Switch on the unit 6 Before the computer boots insert the CD labeled MOXA configuration into the computer s CD ROM drive The computer will boot Free DOS a MS DOS like operating system with this CD 7 At the DOS prompt enter MOXA 8 The configuration program first asks to select the card type choose Smartio then it asks for the board address Enter A700 9 Set the port addresses and IRQs according to the table shown below IO Port 180 188 190 198 IRQ 10 10 10 10 Speed Normal Normal Normal Normal Int Vec 10 Press F10 to save the changes 11 Remove the jumper from the board 12 Close the housing and reboot the M amp C system CTRL ALT DEL The RS485 version of the 4 port card additionally has 4 jumpers to enable the line termination resistors and eight dip switches to select the behavior of the RS485 RS422 ports The M amp C system software uses a RS422 4 wire cabling with most of the equipment The switch positions to operate all

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