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Device auto-conﬁguration

Device auto-conﬁguration is an optional feature within ADDER.NET that is

designed to help administrators when adding new hardware to an existing

network installation. When enabled, device auto-conﬁguration allows certain

supported KVM-over-IP units and power control devices to be automatically

located and acquired.

Note: The successful use of auto-conﬁguration depends upon the system running

ADDER.NET being conﬁgured to have a couple of additional IP addresses (namely

192.168.1.23 and 192.168.168.167). These can be conﬁgured during the initial

installation or can be added by running the installer program once again (this

does not overwrite the existing ADDER.NET installation). For assistance on doing

this, please contact Adder Technical Support.

There are a number of requirements for the successful use of the device

auto-conﬁguration feature:

• ThedevicesmustusetheirfactorydefaultIPaddresses:

• 192.168.1.42forAdderLinkiPEPSunits,

• 192.168.1.22forallotherAdderKVM-over-IPunits,

• 192.168.168.168forWTIpowercontroldevices.

• Theaddeddevice(s)mustbewithinthesamenetworksegmentasthe

ADDER.NET server.

• TheADDER.NETservermustbeconguredtohavetheadditionalIP

addresses192.168.1.23and192.168.168.167inordertodirectly

communicate with newly added devices (see note above). The address

192.168.1.23isusedtolinkwithKVMdeviceswhile192.168.168.167is

used to communicate with WTI power control devices.

• Whenaddingmultipledevices,youshouldleaveatleastthirtyseconds

between linking each one to the network. This gives ADDER.NET time to

locate and reconﬁgure each unit.

Provided all of the requirements listed above are met (and auto-conﬁguration

is enabled - see opposite), each new device will be automatically acquired

by ADDER.NET and added to the list of devices. From there you can edit and

conﬁgure the entry in the usual manner. As part of the auto-conﬁguration

process, ADDER.NET will enable DHCP on each device, in order for an

appropriate new IP address to be automatically assigned.

Note: The feature works well for ADDER.NET servers operating on Windows XP.

However, for ADDER.NET servers running on Windows Vista or 7, it is important

that the server itself does not use DHCP for its own IP address allocation.

To enable device auto-conﬁguration

1 On the ADDER.NET Manager menu bar, place your mouse pointer over

Tools and then choose Device Auto-conﬁguration from the drop down

list:

2 Within the appropriate device parameters section, click the Change button

for the Enable option and then change the setting to Yes.

3 Click the adjacent Save button.

4 You are recommended to change the Default Password (used to gain access

to the located device). Also, if necessary, alter the Name Template (the preﬁx

that will be added to the device when it is added to the list of devices within

ADDER.NET).

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