Installing And Starting Vlinx Manager; Discovering Serial Servers - B&B Electronics Vlinx VESP211 Manual

Section 3 - Initial Setup and Connections

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.

Discovering Serial Servers

If you are configuring the serial server via the network, select
are configuring it via the serial port, select
If you already know the IP address of the serial server, click
this IP address
selected.
Click
Connect
serial servers are detected.
The text in the Progress box appears in various colors, depending on the
message type.
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Figure 15.
; if not, leave I don't know the IP address of the device
. The Progress bar provides information to indicate whether
Vlinx VESR4x4 Serial Server
Discovery Window
.
Serial Port
; if you
Network
The device is at
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