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Quick Start Guide
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Contents
Introducon ___________________________ 4
Overview ______________________________ 4
Powering Up ___________________________ 5
Network Discovery ______________________ 5
Using the LCD __________________________ 5
Web Portal ____________________________ 6
Navigang the Web Portal ________________ 6
Conguring Alarms ______________________ 7
Changing Sengs _______________________ 8
Firmware Updates _______________________ 9
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Introducon
Overview
The ION F-SP 12 Sensor Pod is designed to make
environmental monitoring a straight-forward
exercise, taking away the hassle of maintaining
on-site monitoring systems, and allowing easy-
integraon into any exisng monitoring tool.
Out of the box you will nd the Sensor Pod itself,
a rack mount kit, and a complimentary F-SPTS
temperature sensor.
The below gure outlines the ports available on the
F-SP12 and their use.
The ION range of advanced environmental monitoring
sensors, as well as integraon with 3rd party sensors
makes the SP-12 the best choice for use in your
Data-Centre.
Figure 1: Explanaon of ports on the F-SP12 Sensorpod
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The F-SP 12 provides two methods of providing
power to the unit. Upon power up, the LCD display
will turn on. The rst is through a standard C13
10A AC plug. The unit will draw a maximum of 25W
through this interface and is earthed through the
metal chassis.
Once a network cable is applied, the sensor pod will
start inializing and aempt to connect to a DHCP
network. If it can not nd a DHCP network, it will
enable its interface with the following factory default
stac network details.
The Included 16x2 character LCD and accompanying
selecon buons allow easy interacon to view the
current status of the aached sensors, any acve
alarms, and the sengs of the Sensorpod.
The LCD Interface is divided into menus, which can
be changed by scrolling horizontally using the top
buon. Under each menu will be a list of items in that
menu, which can be scrolled using the lower buon.
Powering Up
Network Discovery
Using The LCD
The second is through the oponal PoE adapter
through the 10/100 Base-T Ethernet port, which
meets the specicaons of IEEE802.3at. Any PoE
compable switch or network devices can be used to
power up the unit, and it will draw a maximum of 16W.
IP: 192.168.0.5
SUBNET: 255.255.255.0
GATEWAY: 192.168.0.1
At any me, the current IP Address of the sensor pod
can be checked using the LCD screen and buons.
Once you’re in a sub-menu, you can press the top
buon to go back up to the main menu list.
For example, in order to view the details of any tripped
alarms, you can press the top buon unl you get to
the menu item “Acve Alarms”. The number below it
will indicate how many alarms are currently acve,
and if there are any, you can use the boom buon to
scroll down that list, to view the messages reported by
the alarms.
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Once the network details have been conrmed, all
further conguraon can take place by using the
on-board web portal. To connect, from a computer
on the same network, head over to the IP address
of the sensor pod.
eg: hp://192.168.0.5/
You should be greeted with a page which asks for
a username and password. The default username
and password are below, and these can be changed
later using the web interface.
Username: root Password: ionups
Figure 2: Login screen for the web portal
Web Portal
Navigang The Web Portal
Figure 3: The Home page of a Sensor Pod with 2 external sensors plugged in
Navigaon Menu
Physical Port Number
Port/Alarm Sengs
Sensor Readings
Current Sensor Values
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Figure 4: Conguring the opons for
an individual sensor.
Conguring Alarms
Once logged in, the home page of the web portal
will show an overview of all the sensors connected
to the device. The sensors are ordered by the
physical port numbers they are plugged into.
Each Port has its own set of opons used for
conguring the alarms and name of the port.
Clicking on the sengs icon of a port will take you
to the conguraon for that sensor.
Depending on the type of sensor, you will be
provided dierent opons for conguring alarms on
the sensor. By Default, any sensor that provides a
linear range of values, such as a temperature sensor,
will have a minimum and maximum threshold alarm.
If at any me the value of this sensor goes outside
these thresholds, an alarm will be raised. A sensor
with a simple binary reading, such as a Dry Contact
sensor, will have a “Normal” value that can be set,
such as Normally Open, or Normally Closed. If at
any me the sensor is not at its normal value, an
alarm will be raised.
The ‘Disconnecon’ Alarm indicates whether an
alarm should be generated when the sensor cable is
unplugged from the Sensorpod.
Each port can also have a custom name, to make
clearer what the sensor is used for. By default, the
name is the leer of the alphabet that corresponds to
the physical port number.
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Changing Sengs
The other funconality of the web portal is to
change system sengs that the Sensorpod
uses. This includes; Email server sengs, login
username/passwords, SNMP sengs, and Network
conguraon.
The Sengs menu can be found by clicking on the
Sengs icon in the navigaon bar on the far le.
All Alarm nocaon setup is done in the
‘Alarms’ sub-menu. By default, any alarm that is
generated by seng the thresholds as dened in
‘CONFIGURING ALARMS’, will aempt to nofy
the recipient set under ‘Alarm Groups’. A single
alarm will be sent when the alarm is tripped, and a
follow-up email when the alarm has been reset. In
an upcoming rmware update, users will have more
verbose control over alarm nocaons.
SMTP Server sengs allow conguraon of the SMTP
server the Sensor pod will use to send out nocaon
emails. Current server sengs allow the use of
Insecure SMTP server relays only, as well as LOGIN
and PLAIN Authencaon opons.
SNMP sengs allow conguraon of the SNMP Agent
running on the Sensor Pod. The MIB le running on
the SNMP Agent can be downloaded from the sengs
page, or at the ION website.
The ‘System’ sub-menu is used to change
system sengs such as login password
and the current Date and Time.
The ‘Network’ sub-menu is used to modify
the connecon details of the network
interface, including DHCP status, IP
Addresses and DNS server.
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ION is constantly making improvements to the
Sensor Pod, including the web interface. Any
available rmware updates will be located on the
ION Website, along with a cross-platform
Firmware Upgrade Utility.
Firmware Updates
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