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1. To show the graph correctly please set the system clock in conf g page 192 168 123 126 Unit Location Somewhere Unit Description Admin or Call 000 123 5678 Support or Call 512 257 1462 Copyright 2003 2009 All Rights Reserved If this is the first time the unit has been powered up and configured it will most likely show no data to graph and indicate that the unit s internal real time clock is not set It may also indicate that the clock is not set if the unit has been left unpowered long enough for the clock s internal backup power to run out typically about 10 days While the unit will continue to monitor its sensors and trip alarms if any are configured for values which exceed the alarm thresholds it will not log or graph data until the clock is set In this QuickStart guide we will set the system clock and briefly point out some other settings which you might want to configure at this time to get your MiniGoose II unit up and running Note that you do not have to set any of these other than the clock right now so if you would prefer to read the more detailed user manual before configuring your unit feel free to skip over the QuickStart guide When you are ready to proceed click the Config button highlighted above to bring up the system configuration pages There are a great many settings and configuration options available on the Config page At the moment we will only deal with the basics of a first
2. John Doe placeholders In other words Reset ALL to Default Values returns your MiniGoose II to a condition that is about as close to fresh out of the box as 1t can get short of erasing the network IP address settings as well Those settings are spared so that you can continue to access the unit since obviously it would be undesirable for the unit to revert to the local address setting of 192 168 123 123 if you are trying to administer the unit remotely The Refresh DNS Cache button on the other hand simply causes the unit to erase any cached IP addresses it has already looked up via DNS and perform new DNS requests on URL specified addresses in the configuration fields This may be useful if you have reconfigured your network or moved your e mail servers to a different IP address and the MiniGoose II hasn t yet refreshed the DNS entries on its own and 1s still trying to access those services at the old IP address U System Clock settings System Clack set tn GMT The MiniGoose II includes a hardware real time clock which keeps time even when the system loses power and mg a which can be set to periodically resynchronize itself with n e an external NTP time server This clock is used to record pa time stamps for each entry in the data log and to trigger Tes HU time based events such as periodic system status e mails ame NTP secrecy server MI Note that the graphing logging and periodic status e mai
3. configuration enhancements including message rep tracy assword HATEEN authentication privacy and access control this section Save Changes andfor Reset SNMPY3 Non volatile RAM will allow you to view and configure the MiniGoose II s initial SNMP v3 Manager and Trap accounts As with SNMP v1 and v2c a complete explanation of how to use SNMP v3 is well beyond the scope of this manual the following is merely a brief overview of the available settings on the Config page ra Ser Trap ntication 12345678 rd Unauthenticated User some SNMP v3 manager implementations allow for a newly installed piece of equipment to be accessed by a designated unauthenticated user account name for initial configuration The MiniGoose II s unauthenticated username defaults to initial and can be changed here if necessary The unauthenticated user account uses a null key for both the authentication and privacy keys and uses the noAuthNoPriv method to provide read only access to the MIB Note that not all SNMP v3 implementations permit the use of unauthenticated requests Authenticated Manager the name of the SNMP v3 manager account Manager Authentication Password this is the password used to sign messages sent by this account Also known as the user s authKey Manager Privacy Password this is the password used to encrypt the data portion of messages sent by this account Also known as the user s privKey Trap User t
4. 1 4 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 z 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Core dee d i bf L rocrcocGOoGCc ln Fa e Character set Western Europe Windows 1252 WinLatin 1 or Western Europe ASCII US e Separator options Separated by Comma u The Display Page on 8 123 123 cg an I nral Tre nn 12 n7 na 13 23 04 MiniGoose II v3 2 0 Allis well 2 alarms monitored This page allows you to change the way in which the MiniGoose II displays various readings It is divided into Display two sections General and Devices eneral Dete Format USA MM DD YY gt The General section allows you to change some l engorauc Unt WRN aspects of the user interface such as the way dates are internal Tenperatae TT ed displayed the unit of temperature measurement and even ivan heer ee retrain elves Tara ea switch between one of four different web page styles ness r gt MEAN This last feature can be particularly useful to those users x Min who intend to primarily access their MiniGoose II units EE remotely via devices with lesser graphics and memory a capability than a full PC such as a web capable cell phone oll Sei me or a netbook computer and would therefore prefer a Sree simpler layout than the default The Devices section allows you to assign more Obert Sna meaningful friendly names to the MiniGoose II unit Y ee and its associated sensor devices to make them easier to identify w
5. HTTP and HTTPS the default HTTP or HTTPS This controls whether or not the unit will require or deny an SSL secured connection vs an unsecured connection If you are using the MiniGoose II solely inside your own private network and not exposing it to a public IP address these settings probably aren t important to you on the other hand users who need to remotely administer their installations over the public internet may prefer to have the unit refuse HTTP non SSL connections and permit only HTTPS SSL encrypted connections The next two settings HTTP Port and HTTPS Port should be left at their defaults of 80 and 443 respectively unless you have some particular need to change them as these are the ports which a web browser will attempt to connect with by default whenever you type http lt unit s ip address gt or https lt unit s ip address gt into the browser s address bar If you change these port numbers then you will need to add the new port numbers to the end of the URL i e if you change HTTP Port to 95 then you will have to type http lt unit s ip address gt 95 into the browser s address bar Save Changes The last setting Telnet Service determines whether the MiniGoose II will accept incoming Telnet connections on port 23 This service provides access to a configuration menu which can be used to reset some of the MiniGoose II s parameters remotely or even initiate a full restar
6. Lee DIEP for Hexors cog ata sre De atk INI server a FD Lees ae srk 2r ur ad CNS cee dr IP Acdrze ESTEE Cucne Mesh fess 255 255 Gszweu 92 160 129 1 ving DAES var PI NA Pee FU Naa LAS Sere 200 57 222 220 Kavi Chrnyss eb Server troto s IFTTP and IFTTPS Pp zmt jeo Pil fana Telet Zero Enabled SH Chrnys u The Configuration Network page The first Config page which always comes up by default when the Config tab is clicked from any other page is Configuration Network We saw this page earlier during the GuickStart Setup Guide portion of this manual and briefly touched on its functions It is divided into three sections Network Web Server and DNS Servers U Network settings These settings should be familiar to anyone who has set up a network or an internet capable device before Current Network Configuration sat steticelly The first set of controls is a trio of buttons which Us DHCP o Networs Configuration anc DNS Server Addresses allows you to determine how the unit will get its network co configuration settings You can either have the unit 1 addross IGOABHACSACS acquire both its IP address and DNS Server settings via pon someon DHCP use DHCP for the IP address while using static DNS addresses or use static addresses for both IP and Su mur DNS Seve DRDD DNS The default is Use Static Network m _Save Cha
7. UNPLUGGED U T7 Remove all uaplugged devires unplugged displayed in red to the right of its name Se TH This will occur regardless of whether or not there are any alarms associated with the device in question Note that the UNPLUGGED alarm will not occur immediately The MiniGoose II maintains an internal count of how many times it has tried to contact any particular device on the Digital Sensor Bus and a device has to fail to respond or return only garbage data several times in a row before the MiniGoose II will give up trying to contact it This keeps the MiniGoose II from spontaneously generating false alerts due to temporary communication glitches caused by transient electrical noise or momentary RF interference only a positive physical disconnection or high levels of sustained signal interference will set off an UNPLUGGED alarm Reconnecting the external sensor device will clear the UNPLUGGED condition svice a s If this c occurs you can clear this state either by FON ns the sensor device which will restore its proper display and clear the UNPLUGGED alarms or if the device is no longer available damaged moved to another facility etc you can go to the Display page and perform a remove unplugged devices procedure which will remove the absent device and its associated alarms from the system s device table We will cover this procedure in more detail in the section devoted to the Display page A fi
8. MIE AF HT Serr 1D F1nnnnnm gt nonF7314 Contemporary default MiniGoase II MinIGoose IT v3 3 0 ark ork MiniGoose II JP amp ddrzos be 16 1 3 13 i be i H Address 1U 16U 123 L 3 Allis wel 7 alarms monitored 3 Latel Tins Mur 12 77 09 14 51 20 Local Tims Men 12 07 05 14 91 34 ut gi i 145 hone NL MIL Lite Modern MiniGoose II v3 3 0 Allis well 2 alarms monitored Sensors Serpors IC 2205 20A 0100C057 Alarrres Miniboose 1 1D ZHUSGLAHU1LULIUD Loguary Ba I emrperature 42 45 YE Display FF Curly ae Help h Pw POA PaenenI z E Ui 7 el F tc x az ic 0d ID E2203002627F2314 AF HT Sansor ID EL00000269CF2314 gt mgerature I Classic Goose Austere Contemporary is the default appearance for a new unit and is the interface which has been used and will continue to be used for all of the sample screenshots in this manual However if you prefer one of the others simply change the nterface Type control and click the by now familiar Save Changes button and from that point on the web pages will show 1n your preferred style Austere may be of particular interest to those users who may need to frequently access their MiniGoose II units from devices such as PDAs mobile phones or over slower dial up connections as it is almost entirely text based aside from the history graphs Classic Goose provides users of our previous WeatherGoose I series with a more familiar looking interface alt
9. MiniGoose ll USER MANUAL Appendix B Using the Telnet service menu The MiniGoose II provides a simple Telnet menu from which the user can view and modify various system settings clear the system s memory or reboot the unit As a general rule it s likely that very few users will actually need to make use of this feature but there are some specialized circumstances where it may oe a shell ich ch gr or perform arb 3 yperations it Is merely a sen configuration menu TEN uses the Telnet pocol aei than HTTP KES if having a device with an open listener on Telnet port 23 for any reason is a security concern for your particular environment the Telnet service can be disabled and the port closed in the Web Server settings section of the Configuration Network page To connect to the MiniGoose II Telnet service simply open a command or shell prompt and issue the command telnet xxx xxx xxx xxx Where xxx represents the IP address of the unit you wish to connect to then enter the login name and password when prompted Note that you must have the Administrator account configured on To protect against unauthorized use the Telnet service will not accept a blank username and password Once you have successfully logged in the following commands are available U account issued by itself this command lists the current account ID settings It can also be used to change those settings as follows U an account s username ca
10. Phone XML and MIB These special function links let you jump to a smaller simpler page more suitable for PDA and cell phone browsers download an XML document containing the units current state EE useful if you want to write your own scripts or programs to accumulate and process the sensor readings or take action on them and download a ZIP file containing the correct SNMP MIB file for your unit B temperature F The MiniGoose IlI s internal sensors are always displayed first at the top of the page The current readings are displayed at the top along with the name and type of reading and a color key to let you match each sensor reading to the history graph displayed underneath Note that this graph is not configurable or customizable it will always display all of the sensor readings available across however long the unit has been 1n operation up to the limits of the unit s memory Below the graph are the thumbnail images for up to four IP cameras if configured If no cameras are configured no thumbnails will be displayed The thumbnails display the IP address of each camera plus a still image snapshot Note that these thumbnails do not display live motion images to see the camera live click on the camera s thumbnail image and your browser will open a new tab or window and connect directly to the camera Also note that the MiniGoose II does not perform any monitoring processing or logging of the
11. Sensors what happens Minifinnse TI 1D 2ANSARARNINNANST After about a minute or so the message switches MiniGoose II IP A an Ea o to Alarms 3 monitored 0 TRIPPED 1 UNPLUGGED tone Tha Gn 6 _ Mose v3 3 0 Alarms 3 monitored indicating that the unit has lost communication with the AF HT Sensor and that the one alarm setting Sensors associated with the AF HT Sensor is now in an espe Pee USE UNPLUGGED alarm state Its information block on the Sensors page will also change to indicate that the F MU MM ee 73 63 F UNPLUGGEC device is no longer active on the Digital Sensor Bus and that an alarm condition has occurred Me orii j Re 80 70 When a sensor device goes UNPLUGGED any so 50 alarms associated with that device go into an alarm condition just as though the alarm thresholds had been exceeded Any actions associated with those alarms e mails SNMP traps or audible alarm DEI will be activated Nc te lt will however TON the device S unavailable or TEE state i in its eassociated information block on the Sensors page Also when a device goes UNPLUGGED its status will be reflected on the Display page under the Devices Unique Address Device Type Frieniully Name Devices section as shown here Any device which 28CS3CAFO1ODDDS7 crate IMiniGoose wT i z airFowSensor ensor has stopped responding will have the word eee eee
12. about 15 20 seconds or until both the IDLE and ACTIVITY LEDs light up simultaneously Release the switch and wait for the LEDs to resume their normal pattern about 5 seconds to indicate that the reset process is complete After a simple reset the following settings will be reset to factory default iP keset 99 U Name and Password Settings all three accounts Administrator Control and View Only will be cleared U Network Settings will be reset to the factory default of U DHCP Disabled box unchecked e IP Address 192 168 123 123 Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 U Gateway 192 168 123 1 U Web Server will be reset to the factory default of Protocols HTTP and HTTPS e HTTP Port 80 U HTTPS Port 443 The RESET button can also be used to perform a total factory reset if necessary Normally there is no need to use this procedure simply to regain access to the unit but it might be useful if you were for example moving the unit from one facility to another and wanted to start over with a blank slate as it were To perform a total reset disconnect power from the unit then press and hold the RESET button as above while powering the unit as up dau Sots to noid is aoi ie 5 seconds then release it and let the n t he w gt M 1 nic JOC se b ac lt O 1ts Digital Sensor Bus Jack This is used to attach external Digital Sensor Bus devices such as the RT 20 temperature sensor or the RTAFH 20 t
13. cause the MiniGoose II to erase all of the currently logged data from memory If this checkbox is set when the Update Graph button is clicked the data is erased the graphs are cleared and the unit will begin accumulating new data 7 Clicking on this link will cause your browser to download all of the accumulated data in a file called datalog csv This type of file known as a comma separated values format hence the csv extension contains the logged data in a simple ASCII text format which can be opened by nearly any spreadsheet program such as Excel Quattro Pro or OpenOffice Calc or data analysis software Note that depending on how long the unit has been in operation downloading the log may take several minutes however the MiniGoose II will continue to monitor sensors and alarm conditions during the download process 8 None of the above controls or checkboxes will take effect until one of the Update Graph buttons is clicked Two buttons one at the top of the page and one at the bottom are provided simply for the user s convenience so that you don t have to scroll all the way up or down the page to find them there is no difference between the two Currently our example unit is set to display a month s Logging Update Graph T me Range 1 Month MInKioose 11 worth of data However this particular unit hasn t been running for a month in fact at the time these screenshots Tamen P were taken it had only been
14. digits are always assumed to be 20 since it seems reasonable to suspect that very few if any of these units will still be in service by the year 2100 and the current Hour Minute and Second Note that if you are only using Manual setting mode and do not intend to sync with NTP servers you could just enter the local time here and set the GMT to local offset to 00 00 however if you have specified a GMT offset and intend to use NTP time servers make sure you enter the correct GMT time here not necessarily your local time On the other hand if Set Clock method is set to NTP Server mode and the NTP server IPs are valid and reachable it doesn t matter what you put in these clock setting fields since the unit will sync to the time supplied by the NTP servers as soon as it finds them NTP primary server and NTP secondary server allow you to specify the desired NTP time servers either by IP address or URL Sync to NTP server period determines how often the unit will sync with an NTP server The default is 1800 seconds or 30 minutes but can be set to as long as 65535 seconds or just over 18 hours The real time clock has its own internal backup power source which will keep the clock running for up to 10 days if the unit s primary power source is disconnected or lost Note that this backup power does not keep the entire MiniGoose II running i e the unit will not continue to log sensor data generate alarms or be web acces
15. forthe moment Protocols HTTP and HTTPS E and come back to them as the final step in configuring the a unit Teret ence TER 7 A f Save Changes Instead click on the Admin tab to switch to the Config Admin Options page where we will set the clock and password options See cin van or Call 212 257 1462 ail Rechte Ree arved MiniGoose II IP pir no UR Mu ce D 114 4 MniGoose I v3 3 0 To set the clock Allis well O alarrris rrr iLorec Configuration For this first time setup Set Clock method to Manual All Parameters Reset ALL to Default Values U Set the GMT to the correct offset for your local Rofrooh DNS Cache time zone Make sure to type it in as shown 1 e U S Central Time should be entered as 06 00 not merely 6 6 00 or 06 Set Clock method Manual GMT 7 GYT to local GAA mm p5 00 U Enter the date and time in the fields provided 192 43 244 1B NTP secondary server 129 6 15 28 129 60 15 28 nc to NTF server period 1 800 seconds OO Name and Password Configuration MOTI 1 IF Acesurt zurientw ha s passwaid leavina Dd Password slank rssuks in ne charass to hat account U For now the NTP settings can be left alone PDA Phone XML MIB U Click the Save Changes button and the cloc will be set Now scroll down the Config Admin Options page until you find
16. lly Name Unique Address Uevice ypa Hiendly Name OL72CES4i100004E clrrzte SuperGonse Il MASSIU ANAND hele Rupe Gimse l C20200023 B83531 Urknown AFAIT Sensor UNPLUGGED T7 Rermeve alunpkcced devices 7 Revove al uniugzed deris Save Changes Save Changes Note that under normal operation the internal sensors should never show as UNPLUGGED in the device list MiniGoose ll USER MANUAL Part 3 Advanced Operation In this section we will show you how to get the most out of your MiniGoose lI unit by covering the all of the advanced features and options available on the Config pages including SNMP traps IP cameras HTTPS SSL access e mails access passwords and firmware upgrades Clicking on the Config tab brings up the first of a series of pages which control all of the MiniGoose II s networking functions along with some other global configuration options not found on the previous pages ile a _ 127 137 Configuration Curren Neil work Gocwliiperaliome slsshals aly You will also find some system diagnostic functions here under normal circumstances you shouldn t need to use these but we ll touch on them briefly so that you can be aware of their existence in the unlikely nm event that you have a problem with your system requiring in depth technical support and are asked to supply some information from these diagnostic pages C e DHEM he H ware rii gralir ae WT 3 gwr amp abe
17. mail settings account password settings and camera options a You can also send test e mails and SNMP traps from here reset the entire Pare j32 180122123 m unit to factory defaults upload firmware upgrades and access some self UO diagnostic syslog functions if you suspect your unit is not operating correctly Since there are a lot of settings available on this page it is further divided down into sub pages for ease of access gm EE WS e l y Rebate fe j a FR s on Sei wn Emprega yr e p page amp fap U0 tse yu h Provides a basic description of the MiniGoose I s functions ts a gt bb corf eb unk Srem hew vou cn choose DHT or set 3 tapec F ochre 4 ea MET ardas dn Ep pe i krai toal Fam do is her nan ab o aen SWF xx vor Tre chek 2 xt 217 ord 7x nc okiu ne ea ls Me Cu Me A henn A Ae ced an MiniGoose ll USER MANUAL Part 2 Basic Operation In this section we will cover the basic operation and functions of the MiniGoose II climate monitoring system Specifically we will go through the Sensors Alarms Logging and Display pages in somewhat more detail give a basic overview and description of what each control and dialog box on the various web pages are used for explain the functions of the built in sensor devices and provide a few examples of how to configure alarm thresholds add external sensor devices retrieve or delete the logged data change the friendly device nam
18. of this MiniGoose II remote monitoring system To get the most out of your MiniGoose II please take the time to look through this manual to familiarize yourself with the product and its features before attempting to install and operate it MiniGoose ll USER MANUAL QuickStart Setup Guide As shipped from the factory the MiniGoose II is configured with the following default network settings e IP ADDRESS 192 168 123 123 e SUBNET MASK 255 255 255 0 e DEFAULT GATEWAY 192 168 123 1 To initially configure the unit you will generally need to connect it directly to a laptop or desktop PC via a crossover Ethernet cable and configure the PC s network card to match the 192 168 xxx xxx subnet If your network card is not already configured this way simply follow these directions Windows 95 98 2000 XP only Macintosh and Linux users or users of Windows Vista or Windows 7 should refer to the appropriate help files for their particular systems 1 Click START Settings then Network Connections 2 Locate the entry under LAN or High Speed Internet which corresponds to the network card you re using to connect to the MiniGoose II Most PCs only have a single network card installed but if you have more than one you can determine which connection is which simply by disconnecting the cable from the MiniGoose II and seeing which network adapter s status changes from Connected to Network Cable Unplugged 3 Do
19. page U View Only this account is able to view all of the web pages except for the Config page but is not able to change any settings Once you have configured these accounts the way you want them click the Save Changes button If you have configured an Administrator account the unit will now ask you to log in with that username and password before you can continue Next scroll down to the Admin Info options block These fields allow you to change the unit s administrative contact information and specify 1ts physical location if desired This information will be displayed at the bottom of each page as shown Note that these fields are for your users convenience only the MiniGoose II does not use the information entered here for anything other than to fill out the display at the bottom of each page and to provide a clickable link to send the system administrator an e mail They may be filled out with any information you like or even be left blank If you wish seconds save Changes Name and Password Configuration NOTE 1 If Account currently has a password leaving Old Password blank results in no changes to that account NOTE 2 Admiristrator password may be used in the Old Password field of any account NOTE 3 If setting New Password to blank Account Name must also be blank NOTE 4 If New Password is not blank Account Name must not be blank Administrator Account Name If blank all access is granted
20. running for slightly over 24 hours So as you can see in the image to the right the horizontal scale has adjusted accordingly to show all of the data currently available Now let s see what happens when we change the scale to a shorter time scale say the last two hours Lagging Updale Graph lime ange 2 Hours We use the Time Range drop down box to select the a emperature 2 hours range then click Update Graph The data still exists in the system s memory of course it s simply off screen MiniGoose II obligingly redraws the graph showing us m h the previous two hours worth of data The rest of the VW Currently the example unit is graphing the unit s internal temperature sensor Since the MiniGoose II has no other internal sensors before we can illustrate the use of the selection checkboxes we ll have to add an external sensor For this example we ll plug in an RTAFH Temperature Airflow Humidity sensor device and see how the display changes Notice how our measurement selection box has logging Topias Graph 1 me ange Zous z changed A new group of measurements titled AF HT MH Sensor has appeared These device names by the way a can all be changed in the Display page more about this Terparaire FOD later Poa 2elitive ny a However none of its measurements are currently selected so it still doesn t show in the graph So let s add the AF HT Se
21. to the appropriate non U S socket The power supply unit is also suitable for use with power strips which provide 208VAC from IEC C 13 sockets connected across two phases of a 3 phase power system which are becoming increasingly common in larger IT installations again all that is required is the correct socket adapter Other power supply options for specific applications such as 48 VDC positive ground telecom systems or Power over Ethernet may be available check the IT a web site or contact our BA for assistance with these ace i gt y Ethernet Jack This is the MiniGoose II s network connection using a standard RJ 45 8p8c modular plug The MiniGoose II is compatible with 10Base T and 10 100 networks as well as with 10 100 1000 type Gigabit networks as o networks which support fallback t to lek ase xr T ole au AU Gy Note that the MiniGoose II is not c tible with eguipment Ethernet nul Tore of this when attempting to connect a MiniGoose II a their Gigabit networks IP RESET Button Used to restore various settings on the MiniGoose II back to their factory defaults This can be useful if for example you accidentally lock yourself out of the unit by making a typo while changing a critical setting To perform a simple reset use a paperclip or jeweler s screwdriver using pens or pencils is not recommended since ink or graphite particles could rub off and get into the unit to press and hold the switch for
22. E 4 JACK SA AE DC l POWER gt JACK Activity IP JA Set IP RESET BUTTON SENSOR BUS IDLE ACTIVITY TEMPERATURE INDICATORS SENSOR The four mounting holes in the plastic case are large enough to accommodate 8 or 10 screws Note the ventilation slots running along both sides of the case due to the unit s small size which places the temperature sensor much closer to the power supply and CPU it can be more susceptible to self heating than its larger cousins causing the temperature sensor to read several degrees higher due to the heat generated by the unit s own electronics if the unit is mounted in areas with little or no ventilation or airflow so keep this in mind when choosing a place to mount the MiniGoose II U DC Power Jack The MiniGoose II runs on low voltage DC power supplied here via a standard DC barrel plug connector The unit s DC power requirements are as follows e INPUT VOLTAGE 6 12 VDC CURRENT approx 350mA 6VDC average note that adding external sensors may increase this requirement depending on sensor type and quantity CONNECTOR TYPE DC barrel plug 2 1mm center positive The MiniGoose II comes with a suitable wall transformer style power supply Note that the power supply which comes with the unit is capable of worldwide voltage 100 240VAC and line freguency 50 60Hz operation all that is required is an appropriate adapter to go from a U S style plug
23. II to be aware of your SNMP system so that it can send traps when alarm conditions occur Road Community abe Listen port for CET pi The MiniGoose IlIs SNMP capabilities are Trap Community grid significantly enhanced over the previous WeatherGoose I Wire Comman MM Trap Type Wi Trap F system As we hinted at earlier in the Alarms section you A a can now specify up to two different servers to receive Trap IP dress ipart 2 alarm traps and selectively direct different alarms to either eRe or both of the specified SNMP managers whereas previously all traps were globally broadcast to all specified managers The MiniGoose II also supports SNMP v2c and permits the sending of v2c type NOTIFY events rather than vl TRAPs and supports SNMP SET operations to set certain parameters remotely as well as read them As of firmware rev 3 3 x SNMP v3 is also supported additional settings for v3 support have their own parameter block and will be covered in the next section One feature which has been retained from the WeatherGoose I to the MiniGoose II is that the appropriate MIB file for the unit is contained within the unit s memory and can be downloaded directly from it at any time simply by clicking on the MIB link directly below the column of tabbed buttons on the left hand side of the web page Clicking this link will serve up a ZIP file which contains both the MIB and a CSV style spreadsheet describing the OIDs which ar
24. MiniGoose II v3 3 0 4a Ld Sensors MiniGoose II Temperature Fi ID 28C53CAFO1000057 y 4 eee 4 THE Eu re Miia i 100769CF23 14 IT Watchdogs has taken care in the preparation of this manual and the information is considered current as of the date and time it was written but IT Watchdogs makes no expressed or implied warranty of any kind and assume no responsibilities for errors or omissions No liability is assumed for incidental or consequential damages in connection with or arising out of the use of or inability to use the information contained herein This manual is for use with IT Watchdogs MiniGoose I monitoring devices running firmware revisions 3 3 x or higher For other IT Watchdogs products or previous firmware revisions please consult our webpage at http www itwatchdogs com to find the appropriate manual s for your application MiniGoose II setup guide amp user manual rev 0 05 Copyright 2009 IT Watchdogs Austin TX All rights reserved IT Watchdogs the Digger logo WeatherGoose and SuperGoose are trademarks of IT Watchdogs All other company names logos or trademarks referenced herein remain the property of their respective owners and are for instructive or example purposes only No endorsement of the referenced companies or products by or of IT Watchdogs should be assumed or implied MiniGoose ll USER MANUAL Introduction Thank you for your purchase
25. NMP guerys later As with the Admin Info fields mentioned briefly in the OuickStart Setup portion of the manual and which will be covered again in the following section on the Configuration Admin page the MiniGoose II does not actually attempt to use this information for any of its own operations so these fields can contain whatever information you wish or even be left blank if you prefer Trap Type this control determines whether the MiniGoose II sends SNMPv1 style TRAP events SNMPv2c style NOTTFY events or SNMPv3 style NOTTFY events when an alarm condition occurs Trap IP Address port you can specify up to two SNMP managers to receive TRAP or NOTIFY events in these fields and then selectively direct alarm events to either or both via the appropriate checkboxes on the Alarms page The destinations can be specified either by IP address or by URL in lt address gt lt port gt form Port 162 is the usual default but may be assigned to any valid UDP port your SNMP installation requires Make sure this port 1s not the same as the LISTEN port Initial SNVIPV3 data Initial SNMPV3 data settings ser initial As of firmware revision v3 3 x the MiniGoose II Authentcsted manager maneger i z Manager Authentication 12345670 series includes support for the newer SNMP v3 protocol Password layer Pi vai 1744hh 4H rd as well as legacy support for v1 and v2c The v3 standard offers a number of important security and remote
26. NMP trap to our SNMP monitor at lobsterpot com Alarms MiniGoose II ID 28C53CAFO1000057 E mail Traps l First we click the Add New Alarm button Not external sensors attached Lic ick 2 1e button associated with ma re Like the buttons on the ais Gel BCOOC CO TCE panes the Add New Alarm and Save Changes buttons on the Alarms page are specific to each settings block rather than f AE HT Sensor SSCS E1000002690F2314 PDA Phone global For this example we should click the button highlighted here Save Changes Add New Alarm ESE 2 Notice how a new entry has been added to the SuperGoose ll alarm table New entries are Alarms generally filled in with defaults that are well E mail Traps outside the range of normal sensor operations Temperature F z Er Neu in this case our new alarm is set to trip if the igh Tee esa temperature goes below 999 C which is an Temperature impossible condition Literally so since Low Trip z 899 0 ae AF absolute zero the point at which all J ECGS TATE molecular activity theoretically halts occurs at only 273 15 C This is by design as it keeps the MiniGoose II from erroneously trying to send alarm messages or traps before you ve had a chance to configure the alarm thresholds 3 The first drop down box will give you a list of all of the conditions monitored by that Temperature F I
27. P connection which U enter the login credentials for your POP3 server requires POP before SMTP validation into the Username and Password fields U leave SMTP Port set to 25 unless your administrator specifies a different port U leave the POP3 Server field blank U enter the login credentials for your SMTP server into the Username and Password fields set the SMTP Port to 465 U leave the POP3 Server field blank U enter the login credentials for your SMTP for an ESMTP TLS connection server into the Username and Password fields U leave SMTP Port set to 25 unless your administrator specifies a different port for an ESMTP SSL connection U System Status E Mail Reports settings This feature allows you to generate periodic status e mails reporting the unit s current sensor readings Any sensor which is pT currently in one or more alarm states will have the word TRIPPED next to its reading To add a new status e mail event click the Add New Report button Just like we saw with the Alarms settings a new event appears in the list ready to be filled in with your desired settings Once you have filled in the various fields and checkboxes click the Save Changes button and the MiniGoose II will begin sending status e mails to the specified recipient s at the specified intervals As with the Alarms you can have multiple events up to a total of eight and selectively assign them to be sent to one or more of your con
28. adding user lt id gt lt password gt to this command Note that both parameters must be specified U the e mail recipients may be set by adding to lt n gt lt address gt i e the command mail tol foo bar com would set the To E mail Address 1 field on the Config Monitoring page to foo bar com U additionally mail test will cause the unit to attempt to send a test e mail equivalent to the Send Test E Mail button at the bottom of the Config Monitoring page U net if given with no additional parameters this command displays the current network settings Typing net dhcp will enable DHCP on the unit while net lt ip gt lt mask gt lt gateway gt will set the unit s IP Address Subnet Mask and Gateway Note that in the latter usage all three settings must be provided 1 e it is not allowed to specify only an IP Address with no Mask or Gateway U netreset resets the Network settings to their factory defaults Equivalent to using the RESET button on the front of the unit U reboot initiate a full reboot of the system firmware equivalent to a power cycled cold start U remove causes the unit to forget any Digital Sensor Bus devices which are unplugged Equivalent to the Remove all unplugged devices checkbox on the Display page U report provides a complete report of the unit s current configuration settings U resetall equivalent to the Reset ALL to Default Values button on the Configuration Admin page th
29. al self signed credentials this message does not indicate that the unit s own default certificate is invalid To upload a prepared set of SSL Certificate and SSL Private Key files use the Browse buttons to locate and select the appropriate DER files then click the Upload SSL Files button No Note once the upload is complete you will need to reboot the unit for the new SSL certificate to take effect If all goes well after you reboot the unit you should be able to access the unit via HTTPS with its newly installed credentials If you are unable to access the unit via HTTPS or your browser insists that the credentials are invalid come back to this configuration page via plain HTTP and check the status message to see whether the unit thinks the current SSL certificate key combination is valid or invalid Note also that it may be necessary to clear your browser s cache or close and reopen the browser to make it pick up the new certificate and key rather than trying to use the cached certificate s it previously accepted from the unit If you wish to remove any installed SSL certificate key combinations and revert to the unit s default self signed certificate just click the Erase SSL Data button and reboot the unit Again it may also be necessary to clear your browser s cache to get back into the unit after removing the user installed certificate
30. cale of the graph letting you view the past history anywhere from the past 15 minutes up to the past 30 days assuming the unit has that much data accumulated in its memory 3 This graph displays the selected measurements across the selected time scale The vertical scale always automatically adjusts to fit the upper and lower bounds of the data being displayed while the horizontal scale will either be the time range selected in the drop down box above or the length of time for which the unit actually has data in its memory whichever is less 4 This provides a color key to the graph above it showing which colored lines correspond to which sensor device s and measurement s While there is no particular limit on the number of items that can be graphed simultaneously keep in mind that if you have a large number of external sensor devices attached and attempt to graph more than 24 measurements simultaneously the color sequence will start repeating which may make it difficult to tell some measurements apart 5 This message located directly underneath the color key tells you the maximum amount of data that can be logged before the memory is full This number will change depending on the number and type of external sensor devices attached Once the MiniGoose II s memory capacity has been reached each time a new data sample is taken the oldest sample s in the buffer will be discarded to make room the new one 6 The Reset Logs checkbox will
31. camera images any motion detection alarms or video recording must be handled directly by the camera and or by its provided application software if any Each external Digital Sensor Bus device will have its own information block containing its AF HT Sensor ID E100000269CF2314 current readings and history graph Each sensor bu F 76 32 s s Air Flow 33 20 still 100 rushin block is titled by the friendly name of the ica ae sensor and that sensor device s bus ID number 7 u e 70 the friendly name can be changed on the a e 50 Display page to somethin g more meanin eful if RL lln i f desired If a sensor device is disconnected from 20 10 0 the unit its associated information block will disappear from the Sensors page You may have noticed that in the sample images above both of the sensor graphs have visible gaps in them Normally the graphs should be continuous visible gaps in the graphs generally indicate one of two conditions 1 The MiniGoose II lost power This is the only condition which can create gaps in the internal sensors graph as seen above in this case the unit was turned off over a weekend which created the large gap in the middle and has subsequently had power disconnected from it a few times since then Note that due to the way the MiniGoose II writes data to the internal memory chip even a short power outage can cause a visible gap in order to extend the life of the Flash m
32. che parameters back to their factory defaults UAIl configured Alarms events will be deleted UOn the Logging page Uthe Time Range control will reset to 1 month Uall checkboxes which determine which sensors appear on the graph will be cleared UOn the Display page UDate Format resets to USA MM DD YY e Temperature Unit resets to Fahrenheit Unternal Temperature Offset resets to 0 Unterface Type resets to Contemporary UAIl friendly names reset to the default factory names for those sensors Uthe DNS Servers are reset to 208 67 222 222 and 208 67 222 220 Uall E mail addresses username password and server information is erased SMTP Port and POP3 Port reset to the defaults of 25 and 110 respectively Uall System Status E mail Reports events are deleted Uall SNMP parameters are reset URead Community public UListen port for GET 161 UTrap Community private UWrite Community private USNMP System Name Location and Contact fields are reset to generic John Doe placeholders euse v2c notify instead of trap unchecked disabled eTrap IP Address port both are blanked Uall Cameras IP Address and Model settings are reset to 0 0 0 0 and No camera respectively USet Clock method is reset to Manual Uthe NTP servers are reset to 192 43 244 18 and 129 6 15 28 USync to NTP server period is reset to 1800 seconds Uall Name and Password Configuration settings are blanked Uall Admin Info fields are reset to generic
33. d other such methods for shielding low voltage signals against external interference but these technigues are highly dependent on your particular operating environment and are not guaranteed Sensor Bus Idle Activity Indicators These red LEDs indicate the current status of the Digital Sensor Bus when the bus is idle the dle LED will flash about once a second and when it is being actively scanned and the attached sensors if any interrogated the Activity LED iP Reset will be lit during the scan cycle Under most circumstances these LEDs are of no special significance to the user and can be ignored however when attaching external sensors it 1s preferable to wait until the Activity cycle ends and the Idle LED 1s blinking since the sudden appearance of a new sensor on the bus while the MiniGoose II is actively acquiring data from the bus can cause a spontaneous abort of the current scan cycle Such spontaneous aborts are harmless to the MiniGoose II and attached sensors themselves but in rare cases they may temporarily fool the unit into sending an erroneous alarm trip or sensor disconnect alert message U Temperature Sensor The MiniGoose II has a single permanently mounted internal temperature sensor located just between the DC power jack and the Digital Sensor Bus jack This is the same chip as the one used on our external temperature probes so it has a similar level of accuracy although as noted above it can be
34. depending on the service you intend to use Google Gmail U SMTP Server smtp gmail com U SMTP Port 587 Uu From E mail Address your Gmail e mail address e g user gmail com POP3 Server leave blank U POP3 Port 110 U Username U Password your Gmail login password AOL com U SMTP Server smtp aol com U SMTP Port 587 Uu From E mail Address your AOL e mail address e g user aol com e POP3 Server leave blank e POP3 Port 110 U Username your AOL e mail address e g user aol com e Password your AOL login password GMX com U SMTP Server mail gmx com U SMTP Port 25 From E mail Address your GMX e mail address e g user gmx com POP3 Server leave blank U POP3 Port 110 U Username your GMX e mail address e g user gmx com e Password your GMX login password 1 Please note this information is provided solely as a convenience to those MiniGoose II owners and customers who may find it useful for their intended applications IT Watchdogs has no connection with any of the companies or services described no recommendation or endorsement is intended or implied nor does IT Watchdogs make any claims or guarantee of these services reliability guality of service or fitness for any given application
35. e available to be read The actual setup and use of SNMP agents and management systems is well beyond the scope of this manual but here is a brief description of the available network settings relating to SNMP SNMP Service determines whether SNMP is active or not If you set this field to Disabled the unit will not send traps or accept GET or PUT requests from SNMP managers The default is Enabled Read Community this field specifies the community to which the MiniGoose II belongs for GET operations Any SNMP manager attempting to retrieve information via GET must belong to the same community Listen port for GET is the UDP port which the MiniGoose II will listen for incoming requests from your SNMP management system s The default setting is 161 which is the typical default out of the box destination port for SNMP agents but you may assign any valid UDP port your particular SNMP installation requires Make sure that this port is not set to the same port as TRAP NOTIFY Trap Community this field specifies the community to which TRAP or NOTIFY events will be sent Write Community this field specifies the community to which the MiniGoose II belongs for SET operations Any SNMP manager attempting to set parameters via SET must belong to the same community SNMP System Name SNMP System Location and SNMP System Contact simply allow you to specify some information about the MiniGoose II unit which can be used to identify it via S
36. e been configured in the above sections Test SNMB Trap and E Mail Send Test SNMP Trap Send Test F Mail u The Configuration Diagnostics and Configuration Event Log pages These pages allow the user to configure various system diagnostics options to capture error messages and debug information from the MiniGoose Il s internals and either send them ea on to a configured Syslog daemon in real time or capture them to a log which can later be e mailed i z z z NFSITENMEENT un und il nnd NEUN zI The Config Diagnostics page along with a properly configured Syslog daemon running on a host computer elsewhere within the user s network replaces the old udpdb diagnostic tool which some of our WeatherGoose I customers may have used in the past when working with IT Watchdogs technical support to resolve an Issue Its advantages are that Syslog is a more widely used de facto standard which more IT system administrators are likely to be familiar with and already have access to and that it minimizes network traffic by having the MiniGoose II push its diagnostic messages at the Syslog daemon as each system event occurs rather than the unit having to be constantly polled as in udpdb Also the matrix of event type and severity checkboxes allows us to narrow down the diagnostic messages to only those events which are of interest to the issue at hand further
37. e over 56 days Keep this in mind as you add more sensor devices to your MiniGoose II system a i more devices MAM have the TECEN ed the checkbox settings Clicking on the Click here to download CSV log data link will cause your browser to download the Update Graph accumulated log history Be patient depending on the Click here to download CSV log data amount of data in memory this could take afew minutes pym Ar Ert seu mit Feet Irck tr rers brip As mentioned before this file is in a plain text ASCII E SES eiu o ETIA CEEE iar Fr format known as comma separated values which ees nearly any spreadsheet or data analysis program likely to be found on the Windows Mac or Linux platforms should be able to import easily When opened the result will look much like the screen shot to the right This particular shot was taken using the OPENOFFICE CALC spreadsheet but other spreadsheet programs should look similar f x SupaiGroga ll igh Lay se eo i lew uaatsana Iz ourd Laval Zaps 3 EN ott Y I Sococroo mronro We YCH SS YCH oe id bf croc Ooce DD O CG lt l I Depending on the spreadsheet program you may be asked to provide some details about the data format so that it can be properly imported If any of the following parameters are asked for be sure to set them as follows Cade cc HHXNWHNxXN WNxN Ra Rae Ned cd ied ce ddd yd cd ied 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
38. emory the unit holds the most recent readings in temporary RAM and does not write them to the Flash chip until it has accumulated enough to fill an entire page So if power goes out between page writes any data held in RAM but not yet written to Flash may be lost The exact amount of time between page writes varies depending on the number of sensors a MiniGoose II by itself with no external sensors may take as long as 20 minutes to fill and write a page while a unit fully loaded with 16 RTAFH sensors may fill up and write a page of data approximately once every 5 minutes 2 A device on the Digital Sensor Bus was disconnected for a time then reconnected while the MiniGoose Il unit was in operation This condition is seen in the AF HT Sensor block shown above where the sensor device was physically unplugged from the unit for a few hours Note that under normal circumstances gaps like the ones seen 1n the example screenshots above should not occur The power loss and sensor disconnection conditions described above were deliberately imposed upon the test unit from which these screenshots were taken for example purposes u The Alarms Page This is where you can set up alarm thresholds MiniGoose II for each sensor attached to your MiniGoose II IP Address 192 158 123 23 123 Local Time Mon 12 07 09 11 42 16 MiniGoose II 3 3 0 To our customers who are familiar with our previous WeatherGoose I system you will find
39. emperature airflow humidity sensor sold separately by IT Watchdogs for use with the WeatherGoose climate monitoring series The MiniGoose II uses the same external sensors as the previous series I units so 1f you are replacing an older unit formerly known as MiniGoose 2 with a MiniGoose II in your facility you can still use all of your existing external IT Watchdogs sensor devices The MiniGoose II only provides a single jack but you can still connect up to sixteen external sensors the maximum number Supported Dy the WeatherGoose system ae w using a port Hus le supported Regardless of how they are synnwyr each MiniGoose II can only support a maximum OF 16 sensors if you attempt to connect more than 16 devices the additional sensors will be ignored Note also that attempting to add more than 16 sensors can lead to unexpected results especially on initial power up since exactly which sensors will be identified or ignored will depend greatly upon in what order the sensors are discovered by the MiniGoose II during its bus scan and what their family code and ID numbers are imidesited operation due to increased RF interference and Un attenuation over long cable runs If longer runs are absolutely necessary you may be able to minimize the effects of such interference by enclosing the sensor cables within grounded metal conduits using snap on ferrite chokes around the sensor wires where they connect to the MiniGoose II an
40. ence are causing an annoyingly large number of spurious or false alerts the ability to disable the unplugged alerts can be helpful u The Logging Page MiniGoose II IP Adcress 132 16 123 123 a eRe e Local Time Wor 12 07 09 12 25 21 MiniGoose I1 v3 3 0 All is wcll 2 alarms monitored The next stop on our tour of the MiniGoose II system is the Logging page Here you can examine your logged Logging data in greater detail by selectively changing the graph s Cymw ere ae time scale or removing traces from the graph so that only the measurements of interest are displayed You can also aa download the logged data or erase it from the unit s TG memory as desired PDA Phone Let s take a brief overview of the various items on this page and then we ll demonstrate a couple of examples on how to use them MB emnentue F B2 40 F MiniGeose II 1 This group of checkboxes controls which measurements are displayed on the graph The measurements are grouped by sensor device the MiniGoose II s internal sensors are always the AN first group at the top of the list and external p Digital Sensor Bus devices are listed underneath SD cick here to download CSV log data If the list grows longer than the box a scroll bar will appear allowing you to scroll up and down through the list Maximem bagase tire span 170 67 days XN 2 The Time Range drop down box lets you change the horizontal time s
41. er the MiniGoose II should use either by direct IP address or by URL Underneath SMTP Server the SMTP Port field allows you to set the IP port used by the server to accept connections Normally this should be left at its default setting of 25 unless the administrator of your e mail server tells you otherwise From E mail Address lets you specify an e mail address from which the MiniGoose II s e mails will appear to come from This field can generally be set to anything you like although depending on how your SMTP server is configured you may need to make sure that the e mail address is one that the SMTP server will consider valid It is not uncommon for SMTP servers to be configured to refuse to send e mails with from addresses that don t correspond to their list of known users to help prevent those servers from being hijacked to send spam with invalid from and reply to addresses The next five fields labeled To E mail Address 1 through 5 let you specify up to five potential recipients for e mail alerts These too can be any valid e mail address as long as they are in the standard format of lt username gt lt domain or IP address gt Users of our previous WeatherGoose I line should keep in mind that alert e mails will not be automatically sent to all five of these addresses instead they can be be selectively assigned so that different alarm events will send e mails only to the selected recipients This fu
42. erences between browsers you may or may not see an in progress report as each block of data is uploaded During this time both the IDLE and ACTIVITY LEDs should blink in unison and on the SuperGoose II the LCD will read FIRMWARE UPDATING 4 Once the upload is complete you should see a page similar to the screen shown here with a 60 second countdown while the unit validates and installs the new firmware Once the installation is complete the unit will reboot and return to the default Sensors page Upload succeeded Under normal circumstances a firmware update will not erase your MT NN log history unit configuration or alarm settings However if you want reboots If you are not redirected please to take extra caution simply download all of your logged data from the a Logging page then use the export import configuration functions described above to save a copy of all of your device configurations before uploading your new firmware MiniGoose ll USER MANUAL Appendix A PDA Phone View shown here PDA Phone XML MIB In addition to the standard web page view the MiniGoose II offers a compressed view of the Sensors page suitable for the small screens of a PDA or internet capable cell phone This compressed view can be accessed by clicking on the PDA Phone link as Initially the compressed view will display text only with no graphs in order to fit the widest variety of available PDA phone displays If y
43. es and receive alerts via e mail The Config page along with advanced functions such as SNMP traps IP cameras enabling or disabling HTTPS SSL access firmware upgrades etc will be covered in the next section Advanced Operation u The Sensors Page an eee Local Time Mon 12 07 09 11 29 36 This is the first page you will see whenever All is well 0 alarms monitored you access a MiniGoose II by its assigned IP ES Sensors address or URL Here you can get an at a glance view of every sensor being monitored by your particular unit along with the unit s name and IP address local time firmware version and as we will see later in the Advanced Operation section dealing with Configuring and Using IP Cameras the still image snapshots of any IP cameras the unit ppasnone has been configured to include in the display aia MiniGoose II 3 3 0 MiniGoose II ID 28C53CAF01000057 BR temperature F 82 40 F 86 85 84 83 h 82 81 80 6d 5d 4d 3d 2d id Od The screenshot shown at right is an example of a fairly typical application consisting of a MiniGoose II four IP cameras and an external i ae AF HT Sensor ID E100000269CF2314 Airflow Humidity Temperature AF HT Sensor aa ani en emperature 329 unit Notice how the AF HT Sensor 1s broken out air Flow 33 20 stil 100 rushing into a section of its own with its own graph rc history All external Digital Sensor Bus devices ia ale aa 60 will disp
44. et Mask and Gateway settings manually or configure the unit to acquire these settings via DHCP from your network router U Here you can choose how the unit gets its network address assignment MiniGoose II and DNS server settings The unit IP Address 192 168 123 123 aq MiniGoose II v3 3 0 can either attempt to acquire them Allis well O alarms monitored via DHCP or use static addresses you specify in the fields below Configuration Network Current Network Configuration set statically Use DHCP for Network Contiguration and DNS Server Addresses Use DHCP for Network Configuration and Static ONS server addresses mo Los ries U Static IP network address settings GAN are entered into these boxes mr IP address 192 168 123 123 Subnet Mas 255 255 2550 Gateway 192 168 123 1 Static DNS server settings are entered here If you want to specify any other settings such as NTP time servers e mail servers etc via URL instead of by IP address you will need to provide the address of at least one DNS server here Primary DNS Server 08 67 222 222 Secondary DNS Server 9099 67 222 220 Save Changes Click Save Changes and the unit will immediately switch to its newly assigned IP address or attempt to procure one via DHCP Note that depending on your current network card settings you may not be able to access the device at its new IP address un
45. figured e mail addresses The Report Time hour and min fields determine at what time s the reports will be sent out For Report Period intervals of 24 hours or longer the report will be sent out once at the specified time for intervals of 12 hours or less the reports will begin at the specified time and then be sent out every specified Report Period interval thereafter Obviously for this function to work the system s clock must be set either manually or via an NTP server if the clock is not set no reports will be sent at any interval This provides you with a lot of flexibility but can be potentially confusing from a brief description so let s see if we can clarify it with a few examples Let us say that the current time just to simplify our examples 1s 10 00 00 10 00AM on Monday January Ist That being the case U if you set a Report Time of 08 00 8 00AM and a Report Period of 24 hours the unit will begin sending status e mails at 08 00 8 00AM on Tuesday January 2nd and will continue sending one status e mail every day at 08 00 8 00AM thereafter The reason the reports won t begin until the Tuesday is because the unit has to wait for the indicated time on the clock to come back around U if however you were to set the Report Time to 13 30 1 30PM instead the reports would begin at 13 30 1 30PM that same day Monday January Ist instead U if you set a Report Time of 08 00 8 00AM and a Report Period of eve
46. gs are in Tools Preferences Advanced w Network Proxy Servers MiniGoose ll USER MANUAL Part I The Grand Tour This section is intended to help familiarize you with the MiniGoose II unit itself in particular this section will focus on the hardware feartures including the physical connectors on the front panel and their various functions The MiniGoose II unit is a compact module about the size of a large candy bar designed to be mounted In a variety of locations such as utility closets work areas storage areas and other places where a larger rack mountable unit might not fit or where there may not even be a rack to mount it to in the first place Note however that our eguipment has not been designed for outdoor use or for use 1n extreme environments where it could be exposed to excessively high or low temperatures chemical fumes etc Like all of our WeatherGoose products the unit s default network IP address information can be found printed on the unit itself These are the settings the unit ships with from the factory and to which it will return if the P RESET button 1s used to revert the unit to its factory settings Unlike our rack mount units however the sensors and connection jacks are located on the ends of the unit rather than on the front MiniGoose II e DIGITAL ETHERNET Default IT WatchDogs JACK Address 192 168 123 123 i a o ask 255 0 Gateway 192 168 123 1
47. he bottom of each page and to provide a clickable link to send the system administrator an e mail This e mail address does not necessarily need to be any of the alarm recipients specified in the Config Monitoring page and nd DN the unit will not attempt to send alarm or status e mails to iia this address Since the MiniGoose II does not use this information for any actual monitoring functions these fields may be filled out with any information you like or even be left blank if you prefer U Saved Configuration XML File One of the MiniGoose II series many new features is the ability to export and import a configuration file containing all of the settings on a particular unit This can be especially useful if you intend to set up multiple identical Goose and sensor combinations in several facilities since it allows you to simply configure one unit and then rapidly clone its settings including network configurations alarm settings display options e mail and SNMP configurations etc into your other installations Saved Configuration XMI File XML File Browse Upinad nnal XMI File Download Current XML File To export the unit s current configuration to an XML file on your PC simply click the Download Current XML File button dis If the latter c Occurs SE use your browser s save as function to s save mH displayed XML data to a disk file In general you it may simply attem p t
48. he name of the SNMP v3 account which will send traps from this device to the Manager when an alarm threshold is exceeded i e the Manager expects to receive traps from this username Trap Authentication Password the authKey password used to sign trap messages sent by the device to the SNMP Manager Trap Privacy Password the privKey password used to encrypt the data portion of messages sent by the device to the SNMP Manager Save Changes and or Reset SNMPV3 Non volatile RAM this button requires a bit of explanation As with the Save Changes buttons on the other configuration sections this button will cause any changes to the Initial SNMPV3 data section to be saved in the MiniGoose II s flash memory However it will also erase any other account settings which may have been remotely cloned or configured from the SNMP Manager on this unit This block of settings is only intended to be used for first time setup of SNMP v3 once you have accessed the unit from the Manager all further configuration including the modification or removal of existing SNMP v3 user accounts should be done remotely via the Manager rather than from the unit s Config page U Cameras settings The MiniGoose II like its predecessor is able to display still image thumbnails for up to four IP cameras Cem 1 address STUD as Buse of a display on the Sensors a Model No camera ote that the Mi niGoose ll does not actuall
49. hen looking at the displayed readings You can also identify external Digital Sensor Bus devices which have become unplugged and if necessary make the unit forget their existence by removing them from the device table Let s go through each section in turn U General section There are four controls underneath the General section The first one labeled Date Format gives you control over how the current date is displayed at the top of each page You have a choice of three settings IP Address 192 168 125 123 IP Address 192 168 123 123 IP Address 192 169 123 123 Local Time Sun 04 05 09 08 47 35 Local Time Sun 05 04 09 08 48 46 AN wd otis Pais we Display Display Display Date Format USA MADDY Date Format Non USA DD MM Y Y Date Format 180 8601 YYY Y MM DD standard USA format Non USA world format ISO 8601 format MM DD YY DD MM YY YYYY MM DD 2 digit month day and year 2 digit day month and year 4 digit year 2 digit month amp day separated by slashes separated by periods separated by dashes The next control Temperature Unit is straightforward enough it simply allows you to change the unit of temperature measurement between Fahrenheit and Celsius Sensors Sensors In 2araADD n1nnnnnm MAES 2 25 46 C emnperature 77 71 F Celsius Teirperaure Valt fae nit Ea Celsius Fahrenheit Note that this setting as we mentioned earlier in the Alarms section d
50. hough it won t be entirely identical of course since the MiniGoose II has many new features and options which the Goose I series lacks MiniGoose IT IP Address _92 158 123 123 Local Tme Mon 12 07 09 11 20 36 U Devices section StiniGuuse IT v3 3 0 A is well O alarms monitored This section allows you to modify the friendly names of the MiniGoose II itself and any attached external Digital Sensor Bus devices Sensors MiniGoose II 1D 28C53CAFO1000057 l Temperature F 82 40 F The topmost entry will always be the MiniGoose II unit itself Notice that any title placed here changes not only the name of its associated graph and measurement block but also the unit name in the banner at the top of the page 36 d 83 N A M Devices Unique Address DeviLe Type Frieriuly Name ARTSFCAFDTDDDOR rimate MiniGnnse l ELJULUJZ6J H2314 arHlawsensor AF HT Sensor I Remove all unpluggec devices save Changes AF HT Sensor ID E100000269CF2214A UAD F 76 32 CF E How 33 2ustll 1UUir ishng BB relative 1 umidity 378 0 gymwevewerr rere ey nwy cr sarennwrre rec neye yyy as eean 70 Un ee 5 mg NN fh Ah R 60 50 e ii wan 30 Any external Digital Sensor Bus devices listed underneath can have their friendly names changed as well This makes it easy to differentiate between senso
51. icate and Private Key As we saw earlier in the Config Network settings a SSL Doriicie and Privato Key aro VALID MiniGoose II can be accessed either via unsecured HTTP GE o i SSL Pr vata Key File Drowse or over an SSL secured HTTPS connection A MiniGoose II unit comes with a self signed SSL TE certificate already built in which it will use by default This is usually sufficient for the average user but for those users who prefer to use their own self generated SSL certificates and private keys or whose corporate IT security policies reguire the use of a properly signed certificate key combination provided by a trusted 3rd party such as Verisign or Thawte the MiniGoose II provides those users with the ability to install their certificate key combination here You can either generate your own self signed Certificate and Key files using tools such as OpenSSL or purchase an authenticated certificate set In either case the uploaded certificate and key files must be in binary DER format the unit cannot accept ASCII text PEM formatted certificate key files At the top of this section you ll see a message stating whether the SSL Certificate and Private Key are valid or invalid Note that this only applies to the certificate data which you can upload from this section so don t panic if you see an invalid status when you haven t uploaded a certificate yet and the unit is still operating on its intern
52. is command causes a total reset of all of the unit s configuration settings returning the unit to a nearly fresh out of the box state U restore reset all of the friendly name fields back to their factory defaults U server by itself this command shows which web server services HTTP or HTTPS are enabled and what port s they are set to This command can also be used to change those port settings or disable a service by issuing the command server http or server https followed by either the port number you wish to assign them to or off to disable that service U snmp by itself this command lists the current SNMP settings It can also be used to set or change those settings as follows U adding port lt port gt sets the listening port for incoming GET requests U the read write or trap communities can be set by adding readcom writecom or trapcom respectively followed by the name of the community U the SNMP system name location and contact e mail can be set by adding those commands followed by the parameters you wish them to be set to U adding notify v2c or notify trap determines whether the unit will use SNMP v2c style notify events or vl style trap events Equivalent to checking or unchecking the Use v2c notify instead of trap checkbox on the Config Monitoring page U the trap1 and trap2 destinations can be set by adding those commands followed by the SNMP host lt destination gt lt port gt setti
53. ivileges U Administrator this account has ON access to the MiniGoose II all pages are viewable and any setting can be changed including the ability to change any other account s passwords Note that this account is the only account which can access the Config v page and that you must configure this account before you can configure the Control or View Only accounts U Control this account is able to U view all of the web pages except for the Config page U add or change Alarms entries U change the graph s time scale and which readings are displayed on the graph and the LCD on SuperGoose II units on the Logging page U download and or erase the log history from the Logging page U change the settings on the Display page U View Only this account is able to U view all of the web pages except for the Config page U download but not erase the log history from the Logging page U this account cannot change any setting on any page Once you have configured these accounts the way you want them click the Save Changes button If you have configured an Administrator account the unit will now ask you to log in with that username and password before you can continue When changing passwords the unit will require you to provide either the current password for that account or the current Administrator account password in the Old Password field and then type the new password into the New Password and New Password Again fields B
54. l Src DNF server pee BOOT 3econcs functions will not operate if the clock is not set The unit _Save Changes will however continue to monitor the sensors and generate alarms since those functions are concerned only with current sensor readings and are not dependent on knowing what particular time it is or how much time has elapsed between events Set Clock method allows you to determine whether the clock syncs itself with the NTP server or only from the time and date fields in this section If Manual mode is selected the clock will only be set once when the Save Changes button is clicked to the time and date entered in the appropriate fields and then will continue to keep time from there NTP Server mode will cause the MiniGoose II to query the time server s specified in the NTP primary server and NTP secondary server fields and then periodically re sync itself at the intervals specified in the Sync to NTP server period setting NTP time servers regardless of their physical location always provide the current time in GMT The GMT to local field lets you specify the offset to be applied to GMT for your local time zone Please note that the WeatherGoose currently has no provision to automatically compensate for Daylight Saving Time so make sure you take this into account when entering the offset The next row of fields below GMT to local allow you to specify the current date as Month Day and two digit Year the leading two
55. larify what we mean by the terms sensor devices and sensor group vs sensors or sensor readings U A sensor or sensor reading refers to a condition that is monitored by a sensor device Note that some devices can have more than one sensor reading U A sensor device is a physical piece of hardware such as a remote temperature sensor an AF HT Airflow Humidity Temperature sensor a CCAT analog to digital converter or the MiniGoose II unit itself Sensor devices can monitor only a single condition such as the temperature sensors or the CCATs or as mentioned above they can monitor multiple conditions such as the AF HT devices or the MiniGoose II s built in sensor devices U A sensor group is the group of readings associated with a particular sensor device So now that we ve gotten that out of the way let s go through the process of adding new alarms settings and see how it all works Currently in the examples shown so far we have a single alarm set this one will send an e mail alert to the email1 address foo bar com whenever the internal temperature sensor exceeds 85 F But what if the temperature continues to rise Let s say we want to be alerted again if we exceed 90 F and this time we not only want foo bar com to know about it we want our building maintenence supervisor at neg pos net and the HVAC technician at zz9 pluralzalpha com to know about it as well and send an S
56. lay this way on the Sensors page each so individual sensor will have its own section This Y can cause the Sensors page to get rather long 1f you have a lot of external sensors attached but 1t provides you with the most comprehensive view of everything going on in the system displaying MU TE Tn both every sensor s current reading and a graphed Copyright 2003 2009 or A STA Rights Reserved history up to the present moment i Note that on this page the graph ranges are not selectable they will always automatically scale to display the full range of data stored in the unit s memory Also note that unlike the WeatherGoose I the various graphs time scales are independent of each other as you can see in the image above the unit s internal sensor graph is scaled to about 8 days while the AF HT Sensor which was connected after the unit had already been running for some time is only showing a little over 40 hours worth of data This among other things makes it easier to determine if a newly connected sensor is working correctly since it will begin displaying a full graph within only a few minutes At the top of this and every other page you mmn y will see a banner similar to this one The unit s tc ep friendly name is prominently displayed in large a elle Ae type this name can be changed on the Display page to help you determine which unit you re looking at if you have more than one Goose in your facility Be
57. low the unit s name you ll see its current IP address and the current time and date to the right the unit s model and current firmware revision Below these there s an at a glance summary of the current alarm state when all the sensors are within their normal range it will display Allis well and the number of alarm conditions being watched in green type In this case 0 alarms monitored indicates that we haven t configured any alarm thresholds yet If a sensor exceeds its alarm threshold the text will turn red and display the number of alarm conditions also its displayed value will turn from black to red More about this in a moment MiniGoose II 3 3 0 Allis well 3 alarms monitored Each unit also displays its administrative information at the bottom of each web page This Unt Des o area is filled in by the Admin Info fields on the T ciara Config Admin tab which we touched on briefly in the QuickStart Setup Guide and will go into more detail upon in the section devoted to the Config pages Along the left hand side of the page you ll see a column of labeled buttons These allow you to De tee switch between the various system pages to set socal el alarms change the logging and display settings or configure the unit MiniGoose II 3 3 0 Allis well O alarms monitored Sensors Sensors MiniGoose II ID 28C53CAFO1000057 Just below the last button you ll see some smaller links labeled PDA
58. n aane anore get a message 1f the temperature climbs about Alarms 90 F not only does the sysadmin get another ynyr MiniGoose II ID 28C53CAF01000057 message but our building maintenence E mail Traps supervisor and the HVAC technician or S Temperature F z service company get e mails as well and we po MEMIEE Fn also set off an SNMP trap to our network ae fim Sener monitor High Trip foo EE More alarm thresholds up to a maximum of XML YB HE EUR EARTH 200 can be added simply by clicking the appropriate Add New Alarm button for the sensor or sensor group you wish to add a new alarm Lada Neu Aam condition to If you attempt to add another alarm past the 200th an error message will appear Uroluged Ar ME Disables alarm notifications for unplugged devices stating that you re trying to set more alarms than the MiniGoose II can support and no new alarm entry will appear on the page Note that the alarm entries are not sorted in any particular order They simply appear in the order in which they were added Keep this in mind if you intend to add a large number of escalating alerts to any particular sensor as long lists of alarms added in random order can quickly become unwieldy and difficult to manage Save Changes Alarms can be changed at any time Let s say we d rather have our initial alert go out at 80 F instead of 85 F Nothing could be easier just click the cursor on the numerical box fo
59. n be changed by adding admin control or view to the command followed by the account name you wish that account to be set to U an account s password can be changed by adding passwd to the command followed by the account whose password you wish to change admin control or view followed by the new password U admin issued by itself this command lists the current Admin Info settings It can also be used to set or change those settings by adding name email phone or location to the command followed by the information you wish the specified field to be set to Equivalent to the Admin Info section on the Admin tab of the Configuration section U bye exit quit close the Telnet session and exit U deletelog deletes the logged sensor data U help by itself gives a list of available commands help lt command gt will give further information about the specified command U http80 resets HTTP Port to the standard default of 80 U https443 resets HTTPS Port to the standard default of 443 U mail by itself this command lists the current e mail settings It can also be used to set or change those settings as follows the SMTP and POP3 server settings may be changed by adding smtp lt server gt lt port gt Or pop lt server gt lt port gt respectively Note that lt port gt is optional and lt server gt may be specified either by IP address or URL U the mail server login credentials may be changed by
60. nal note on alarm thresholds before we move on you may have noticed that the drop down box included both a Temperature F and a Temperature C ms uel These allow you to MUN an alarm state in either unit of ET HA measurement and it 1 to keep these operate dently of the mperature Unit setting on the Display page The MiniGoose II automatically keeps track of and converts alarm eoid and temperature measurements to the appropriate units internally so if for example you were to set an alarm at 85 F while the Temperature Unit was set to display in Fahrenheit and then later changed the Temperature Unit to display in Celsius instead the alarm will still trip at the correct temperature of 29 4 C even though the alarms page will still show the original setting of 85 F The final set of controls to be covered on the Alarms page is the Alarm Behavior section Alarm Behavior Unplugged Alerts Enabled gt Currently 9 this section has a single control 9 Disables alarm notifications for unplugged devices Unplugged Alerts which has two options _Save Changes Enabled or Disabled This control determines whether or not the MiniGoose XP II sends out the alarm messages when a device becomes UNPLUGGED Under most normal circumstances you will want to leave these alerts Enabled but for those customers whose equipment must be installed in electrically noisy environments where excessive levels EM and RF interfer
61. nction 1s covered in more detail in the Alarms Page section POP3 Server and POP3 Port serve the same function as the SMTP settings except that they apply to your incoming POP3 mail server While you cannot actually send e mails to the MiniGoose II some mail systems reguire any computer or device attempting to send e mails through them to validate themselves as a known user by performing an operation known as POP3 before SMTP where the device first has to log in to a Known POP3 mailbox account before it s allowed to use the SMTP service to send mail Here again the POP3 Server can be specified either by URL or IP address and the POP3 Port should be left at its default of 110 unless your e mail administrator specifically requires you to change it Username and Password are the login credentials used to connect to your mail servers The MiniGoose II s e mail system also supports secure encrypted e mail server connections via ESMTP SSL or ESMTP TLS These features can be enabled by selectively filling in certain fields on the E mail section and leaving others blank The possible SMTP methods are U leave POP3 Server Username and Password for a standard i e non encrypted SMTP connection which blank does not require POP before SMTP validation U leave SMTP Port set to 25 unless your administrator specifies a different port U fill in the POP3 Server field with the IP or URL of your POP3 server for a standard i e non encrypted SMT
62. ng a command prompt and issuing the command arp d 192 168 123 123 to delete that IP address entry from the ARP table In Windows click START Programs Accessories then Command Prompt to open a command prompt Mac OS X and Linux users refer to the help files for your particular systems on how to get to a command prompt or console window The syntax of the arp command should be the same Gro ce EET 1a 5 x TIP if you are unable to reach the MiniGoose II from s i s r x a r y Search Sy Favciiae ge Ed Fal your web browser when the unit is directly connected to memre se mer your computer via a crossover cable try opening anelu mma an anaes command prompt as above and issuing the command ping n poeem gan emee 192 168 123 123 to see if the unit responds If the unit sm E eee 8 responds to pings make sure your browser isn t set to use a ar I ee eee proxy server if it is you may need to temporarily disable e E eee proxies in order to reach the unit over a direct connection ova Area Nel AN selli gs WY Sattinzs do nzt azp da u gt con ecticns hoarse engs ce gt imHip ter ngs U in Internet Explorer the proxy settings can be found under Tools Connections LAN Settings U in Firefox the proxy settings are in Tools Options Advanced Network Settings in Opera the proxy settin
63. ng the ability to set multiple thresholds for any given sensor and selectively determine which of up to five e mail address es and or up to two SNMP listeners should receive alerts for a particular condition U Logging page On this page you will find a larger graph which can be customized to display only the sensor s of interest to you and to display their history for periods ranging from 15 minutes up to month You can also download and or erase the log history from this page if desired logs are downloadable in a standard CSV comma separated values format which can be imported into a variety of spreadsheet and data analysis applications Display page This page allows you to control the way various items are displayed including the date format USA non USA or ISO 601 unit of temperature measurement Farenheit or Celsius and to assign friendly names to each sensor and to the MiniGoose II unit itself to more easily differentiate them on the various pages You also have the option to choose from several different user interface styles or skins depending on your preferences All of the screenshots in this manual are from the default Contemporary skin but other options are available including Austere and Goose Classic e Config page This page provides access to all of the MiniGoose II s system and network configuration options including the real time clock SNMP and e
64. nges Configuration and DNS server addresses if you set this control to either of the Bis Ui one options click Save US the unit al aa to aS its Warning if you enable one of the DHCP options and a DHCP service is not available or cannot be reached the unit will no longer respond on the static address and you will not be able to get back into the unit If this occurs use the hardware RESET procedure described in section 1 to reset the unit to the factory default addresses and disable DHCP The next settings are IP Address Subnet Mask and Gateway When your MiniGoose II first arrives from the factory or if you use the RESET button on the front of the unit these settings will default to the following local subnet settings IP ADDRESS 192 168 123 123 SUBNET MASK 255 255 255 0 DEFAULT GATEWAY 192 168 123 1 Below the IP address settings you will find a pair of fields named Primary DNS Server and Secondary DNS Server This is where you can specify the DNS servers for the MiniGoose II to use to look up any servers or addresses which you specify by URL rather than by direct IP address Any standard DNS server can be used as long as the MiniGoose II is able to access it from your network U Web Server settings These settings control the behavior of the MiniGoose Il s built in web server Ho R The first setting the Protocols drop down box has qT rsrot MD lenet service Enabled three possible settings
65. ngs lt port gt is optional U additionally snmp test will cause the unit to attempt to send a test SNMP trap equivalent to the Send Test SNMP Trap button at the bottom of the Config Monitoring page MiniGoose ll USER MANUAL Appendix C Configuring the MiniGoose l for use with some popular tree e mail services It used to be that environmental monitoring systems were primarily found only in large IT installations such as server farms and corporate data centers which could be expected to have their own internal e mail servers which the monitoring units could make use of to send alerts to the IT administration staff However as our low cost monitoring systems have increasingly found their way into a wider variety of smaller scale applications and office environments many of these customers who often do not possess their own dedicated in house e mail servers have expressed a need to be able to configure the units to send e mail alerts via a free publicly accessible e mail service such as AOL or Gmail The following services have been found to be compatible with the MiniGoose II s e mail system Note that to use any of these services you will first need to visit their sites and create an account 1f you do not already have one there To configure your MiniGoose II to use one of these services as its outgoing e mail server click on the Config tab then click Monitoring go to the E mail options block and set the parameters as follows
66. nsor s temperature and humidity readings to the graph We move the mouse pointer to the measurement selection checkboxes under AF HT Sensor check the Temperature F and Humidity boxes then click Update Graph The graph is redrawn again with the selected mm MD measurements shown in the graph And just like that our WW new measurements are added to the graph and color key Terpeature FF Notice how the new measurements do not extend all the EIDDO O way across the graph though That s because these a i sensors were only added to the example unit 15 minutes before this screenshot was taken so naturally there s nothing to be graphed earlier than that But since this is the same unit that had been running for several days on 1ts Mdd AET son own it does have enough graph history on its internal sensors to fill out the 2 hour window we ve specified in the Time Range selection box so the unit obligingly LI shows us the last two hours worth of data with the AF HT Sensor suddenly appearing only 15 minutes ago Notice also that our color key has changed with new color boxes appearing to indicate which colors represent which sensors Yom Notice another thing which has changed previously f g i ag Maximum loggable time span 56 89 days the unit said our maximum loggable time span was about 170 days now with the addition of the two external sensors our time has shrunk to a littl
67. oes not affect your alarm settings All it does is change the unit in which the sensor readings are displayed the MiniGoose II automatically keeps track of and converts alarm thresholds and temperature measurements to the appropriate units internally An alarm threshold set at 85 F while the Temperature Unit is set to display in Fahrenheit will still trip at the correct temperature of 29 4 C if Temperature Unit is later changed to Celsius even though the alarms page will still show the original setting of 85 F The next control Internal Temperature Offset deserves a bit of explanation Under normal conditions ymgy mn yn nd by ee you should not need to change this control from its default setting of 0 however there may be times when 1t appears as though the MiniGoose II s internal temperature sensor is reading a little higher than would be expected Generally when two temperature measuring devices in the same room disagree on their temperature readings it is simply due to localized differences in air temperature due to convection currents heat generated by nearby eguipment their relative proximities to air conditioning vents and even the relative accuracy and tolerances of the two devices Internal Temperature D x i Ottce However it can sometimes be the case especially in tightly enclosed environments with little or no airflow that the heat generated by the MiniGoose II s own electronics can register on its in
68. oth New fields must match exactly for the change to be accepted If you no longer wish to have a username and password associated with a given account simply leave the Account Name New Password and New Password Again fields blank while providing the Administrator account s password in the Old Password field If you have forgotten your Administrator password and cannot get into the configuration pages you will need to use the hardware RESET button as described in Part 1 The Grand Tour of this manual to reset the passwords and regain access to the unit Note that you will need physical access to the unit to perform the RESET and that the unit will also revert to its factory default IP address of 192 168 123 123 as part of the RESET so you will also need to reconnect the unit directly to a PC as described in the QuickStart Setup portion of the manual to re program the unit back to the correct IP address settings for your network U Admin Info settings These fields allow you to change the units administrative contact information and specify its cortact name JohnDoe OOOO physical location if desired This information will be ania displayed at the bottom of each page as shown here eysconiaet Contact Phone doD 123 5670 Note that these fields are for your users convenience UU a only the MiniGoose II does not use the information n entered here for anything other than to fill out the display at t
69. our particular cell phone or PDA has a higher resolution display which is able to accommodate the graphs clicking on the Show Graphics button at the bottom of the page will switch to a different version of the page which displays the graph histories and color keys To switch back to the text only mode click the Hide Graphics button Both of these pages are individually bookmark able separate from each other and from the main Sensors page so you can bookmark either or both of these in your PDA cell phone browser to go directly to them rather than having to go through the PDA Phone link on the main page Note the Sensors page is the only page for which a compressed PDA Phone view is provided PDA Phone view no graphs MiniGoose II MiniGoose II v3 3 0 IP Address 192 168 123 123 ocal Time Mon 11 30 09 15 32 56 Allis well O alarms monitored Sensors MiniGoose II ID 28C53CAFO1000057 Temperature F 82 40 F Show Graphics Unit Location Somewhere Jnit Description Admin or Call 000 123 5678 Support or Call 512 257 1462 Copyright 2003 2009 All Rights eserved PDA Phone view with sensor graphs AiniGoose II AiniGoose IT v3 3 0 IP Address 192 168 123 123 ocal Time Mon 11 30 09 15 33 09 Allis well O alarms monitored Sensors MiniGoose II ID 28C53CAF01000057 Bre mperature F 82 40 F Jnit Location Somewhere Unit Description or Call 000 123 5678 or Call 512 257 1462 All Rights
70. particular device Notice that there s also an High Trip z a5 0 mmm mn option to remove alarms we ll get to this in a minute For now we ll pick Temperature HER TOR PECETO FD F to set an alarm threshold on the PDA Phone MiniGoose II s internal temperature sensor in Fahrenheit 4 Next we choose whether we want this alarm r mmm to be a Low Trip or a High Trip The i E noooo0 oo distinction is just like it sounds a Low Trip ass ome ee alarm will send alerts if the monitored HE LAda om Alarm condition falls below the threshold value that we set while a High Trip alarm goes off if the monitored condition rises above the threshold So to get our alert if the temperature exceeds 90F we select High Trip from the second drop down box 5 Next we type 90 as our alarm trip threshold SI and put checkmarks in the desired alarm and mad a PECET ET SNMP boxes in this case we select emai11 ee email2 email4 and trapl which De a correspond to foo bar com our system administrator neg pos net our building supervisor zz9Qpluralzalpha com our HVAC technician and our SNMP monitor at lobsterpot com 6 Now we click Save Changes and just like that now we have a new alarm setting in the MiniGoose II MiniGoose ll table Now whenever our Loca Tne Mon 12 07 09 11 52 16 MiniGoose HI v3 3 0 temperature exceeds 85 F our sysadmin will Lenei
71. paste text into a separate e mail program Currently neither of these pages are likely to be of significant interest under normal circumstances They are provided mainly to assist IT Watchdogs in remote diagnostics and technical support in the unlikely event that you encounter problems setting up or using your eguipment While altering these settings will not harm or disable your unit they may cause some functions on the other web pages to be less responsive and or cause the logging memory to fill up with unnecessary status and debug data while leaving less room for actual sensor readings Unless you are asked by IT Watchdogs technical support to enable or change any of the settings on these pages these settings should not be disturbed u The Configuration Admin page The last page of configuration options are primarily concerned with administrative functions such as the real time clock and account settings It is also possible to upload firmware upgrades from here and do a global reset of the unit back to factory defaults if needed MiniGoose IT IP Adcress 192 lbi The first controls you will find at the top of the W ACCESS IZ IOH ZITA miniGoDse H v3 3 0 Config Admin page are a pair of buttons Reset ALL to Default Values and Refresh DNS Cache Both of these Configuration controls do exactly as their names suggest Reset ALL to Default Values Reset ALL to Default Values will reset the following Refresh DNS Ca
72. r devices particularly if you have two or more of the same type of device connected to a single MiniGoose II These friendly names will also appear in any alert e mails sent ce ae by the unit when a sensor alarm occurs coryrqn 2003 2003 ll Raats Reserved Friendly names are limited to 31 characters in length Beneath the list of devices is a checkbox control titled Remove all unplugged devices You may remember that we referred to this briefly before when we discussed working with external sensors in the Alarms section There we demonstrated how 1f an external Digital Sensor Bus device were to become disconnected from or stop communicating with the MiniGoose II the unit would declare an UNPLUGGED alarm condition for that sensor and display its status as such on the Display page There may be times in which you want to make the MiniGoose II forget about any such disconnected sensors Perhaps you re moving the unit from one physical location to another and attaching it to a different complement of already installed sensor devices or perhaps that particular sensor device has failed or been damaged and has since been replaced with a new unit and now you want to remove the old device from the display Whatever the reason simply click on this checkbox then click the Save Changes button and all UNPLUGGED devices will be permanently removed from the device table Unique AU res Device Type Friern
73. r that alarm then type in the new threshold and click Save Changes Likewise if we decide we d like to bring the building maintenance person into the loop on that first alarm rather than waiting for it to escalate just check the appropriate e mail box and Save Changes You can even change multiple alarm thresholds and settings all at once again just remember that each Save Changes button only acts on the alarm settings within its particular sensor group not globally If a particular alarm is no longer wanted or needed there is an option at the top of the sensor REMOVE ALARM WN measurement drop down list which says High Trip Z 90 0 REMOVE ALARM Select this option and xM Me Add New Alarm click Save Changes and the unwanted alarm will be deleted from the list Now let s see what happens when an alarm MiniGoose II exceeds its threshold Currently our ambient oval Tire Man 1207 09 11 00 38 MiniGoose II v3 3 0 temperature according to the MiniGoose II s internal AE UN temperature sensor is 76 55 F The Sensors page sensors Sensors reports All is well 2 alarms monitored and all the ERE Mincoose I ID 28053CAF01000057 values are black indicating that all of the sensors are B ub within the threshold s we ve set Let s see what as happens when we warm things up a bit MiniGoose II The temperature has climbed to 87 96 F Now JP Address 192 180 2323 nme 1 v3 30 the top banner
74. reducing network traffic and the amount of data needing to be logged and reviewed These 1mprovements will be especially apparent 1f 1t should be necessary to gather diagnostic information over an extended period ROR ODLEFOLB OM IRE IEE ORO OLSOLeOLRO 3 2 EME 2 Igo sooo Ao Aog kcd ba n o E lt lt S lt E a O o O E O 4 O o s o E a O 4 B S E lt a lt E a aA NFSTIFEMEENT EIGEN ILENE J qaaaaaaaaanaaaanaanaaaana n NENT Ise ISR IEE IGEN ene ene en NENT gu IFS ITE 1N ng ene en a GLNGLNOENW CENCLi EEO EP OR OLS OLS OLLOS APEC EOE IFRS IES IFS IE ng ene en C r r C C r Ii n AoA A 0 0 002700 Anf o LAOLE O LLU 7 x The Config Event Log page on the other hand will be at least partly familiar to WeatherGoose I users the Memory Syslog window at the top of the page is eguivalent to the Event Log window which used to be at the bottom of the Alarms page on the WeatherGoose I and serves a similar purpose Again though its functionality has been significantly enhanced with a matrix of event type and severity checkboxes to choose which events are of interest There is also a control at the bottom of the page which allows you to enter an e mail address and send the logs directly from the unit assuming that e mail functions are not the problem at issue of course rather than needing to cut and
75. ry Friday the first status report would be sent on Friday January 5th and continue every Friday thereafter U if on the other hand you set a Report Time of 08 00 8 00AM and a Report Period of every Monday the reports would not begin until the following Monday January 8th since 08 00 of the current Monday the Ist has already passed U if you set a Report Time of 08 00 8 00AM and a Report Period of 2 hours the unit would begin sending status e mails at 08 00 8 00AM on Tuesday January 2nd and then every two hours thereafter U if however you set a Report Time of 14 00 2 00PM and a Report Period of 2 hours the unit will begin sending e mails at 14 00 2 00PM on Monday the Ist and every 2 hours thereafter The E mail Destinations checkboxes work the same way as the ones on the Alarms page recipient s can be selected by setting the appropriate checkboxes starting with email1 on the left through email5 on the right If you wish to remove a particular status report from the list check ee the Delete This Report checkbox for the unwanted report event and oe fe click Save Changes o ms enables IP From E mail Address SS SS To E mail Address 1 p To E mail Address 2 aes To E mail Address 3 _ To E mail Address 4 _ ST To E mail Address 5 ns Monitoring U SNMP settings If your facility includes SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol monitoring you can configure the MiniGoose
76. s a major new feature in the MiniGoose II we ll go ahead and take a brief look at Config Monitoring to see how the checkboxes relate to the settings on that page Here to the right we see a single sensor alarm entry below we see the relevant sections of the Config Monitoring page The colored lines show how each checkbox connects to the e mail and SNMP trap settings Obviously none of these addresses are real Temperature F gt 1 uj m m m m mj a As you can see the checkbox assignments are High Trip z 85 0 fairly straightforward email1 through From E mail Address goose goldenegg com To E mail Address 1 foo bar com Monitoring To E mail Address 2 neg amp pos net To E mail Address 3 alpha amp beta org To E mail Address 4 zz96ppluralzalpha com To E mail Address 5 deimos phobos gov Trap Type vi Trap Trap IP Address port 1 Trap IP Address port 2 Save Changes email5 then trap1 and trap2 numbered left to right But don t worry you won t have to try to remember the configured e mail addresses in your head as seen in the picture at right if you roll your mouse pointer over a checkbox a pop up tip will appear to remind you which e mail address or SNMP trap destination that checkbox controls Before we go any further and in particular before we go into the specifics of adding external sensor devices or configuring alarm thresholds let s take a moment to c
77. s and reverting to the unit s own self signed default certificate U Upload System Firmware From time to time firmware updates may be provided eI SEER to add new features or improve the MiniGoose lI s Femur parka a capabilities Firmware update capabilities have been Upload New Firmware significantly improved in the MiniGoose II unlike the old WeatherGoose I series which required you to run a separate updater program from a Windows command prompt in order to update the firmware MiniGoose II has this function built right in to the web page interface It is also no longer necessary to directly connect the unit to a host PC via a crossover cable to ensure a reliable update as the MiniGoose II s ability to recover from an interrupted or failed file transfer is greatly improved over the previous design To upload new firmware 1 First download the new firmware from our site Updates will typically be packaged as a ZIP file containing several supplementary files such as updated MIBs simply unZIP the entire package to a temporary directory 2 Click the Browse button and browse to the temporary directory you unZIPped the update package into The file you are looking for will have a PKG extension double click to select that file 3 Click the Upload New Firmware button and wait The upload process may take a few minutes depending on the size of the update file and network traffic Note that due to the various diff
78. se the temperature reading on an AF HT Sensor has already tripped one or more alarms for example 1t will not prevent that same AF HT Sensor from generating humidity or airflow alarms as well 1f either of those values exceed their thresholds One alarm condition which is unigue to external sensor devices however is the UNPLUGGED condition This occurs if a previously identified Digital Sensor Bus device vanishes from the bus and can t be found or communicated with There could be any number of reasons for this the sensor was physically disconnected from the unit or a cable got pinched or crushed or the sensor device has been damaged in some way or there could be a high amount of ambient electrical interference being picked up by an excessively long sensor cable running alongside high current AC power wiring but whatever the reason the result 1s that the MiniGoose AEH Sensor a wee II is no longer able to monitor one or more of the ee conditions you re relying on it to monitor To High Trip z so TO aan illustrate this let s add an alarm condition to the SURTAR AUREN AF HT Sensor connected to our example unit as shown at left MiniGoose II IP ddress 192 168 123 1 Our Sensors page now shows All is well 3 alarms Local Tine Thu 04 02 00 07 17 37 MniGoose II v3 3 0 Allis well 3 alarms monitored monitored Now we ll physically disconnect the AF HT Sensor device from the MiniGoose II and see Sensors
79. sible if main power is lost U Name and Password Configuration settings Name anu Password CuniliyuraLiur Here you can set up to three levels of password ET E protection for the MiniGoose II allowing you to restrict nr CT OH _ which user s in your organization are able to view or Tr change the unit s settings Although these settings are a optional IT Watchdogs highly recommends that you at least set up the Administrafor account to prevent 4 Control Aczoun Name a unauthorized changes to the network and administrative Re gp s Od Fasewor settings newad New Passwerd His in again o con rn z i OUTS 20 retoy ating Record your password Loss cf passwerd may i If a given account s username and password fields are vew Orly arzour Name BE left blank then the level s of access controlled by that es Jd bass ha account are available to anyone who connects to the unit New Tanner MEDDD e ew Passwcr zin again o conirn Accounts are listed 1n order of privilege fror highest to i yM yur password Loss of Pi i wu u re uu er lowest and lower privilege accounts cannot be set unless _Save Changes the higher privilege accounts above them are set as well 1 e you cannot have a Control account without an Administrator account and you cannot have a View Only account without both a Control and Administrator account The three levels of accounts have the following pr
80. subject to picking up the heat of the unit s own electronics under some conditions due to the compact size of the unit placing the sensor so close to the power supply and CPU The best solution to this problem is to make sure the device is located in an area with sufficient ventilation and airflow around the unit however if this is not possible there is a way to apply a compensating offset to the readings which we will cover in the next section e Sensors page This is the page that the unit will default to when accessed by its IP address There are no user or administrator adjustable settings on this page it merely displays the current readings and historical graphs of the MiniGoose II s internal sensors plus any external sensors which may be connected to the Digital Sensor Bus The tabs along the left hand side of the page provide access HHE to the rest of the MiniGoose II s functions x 4 Y Um E Ee Se ae ie FAMU Ges Bae rte WATE Tei US pewter erwin Ust wr rt ae SON OT AER re OF You can also download the unit s SNMP MIB file from this page via a link underneath the page tabs e Alarms page From here you can add or remove alarm thresholds which will cause the unit to send e mails SNMP traps and or activate the audible alert buzzer SuperGoose II only if any of those thresholds are exceeded The MiniGoose II alarm system has several significant enhancements over the original WeatherGoose I includi
81. summary reports Alarms 2 monitored Alarms 2 monitored 1 TRIPPED 0 UNPLUGGED and the internal Tr r i Sensors temperature sensor s numeric reading has turned red m to indicate that it is currently in an alarm condition Mc a The unit has also sent an e mail to our sysadmin The temperature continues to rise now at ID Acdress 192 168 123 1 90 469F it exceeds our second alarm threshold Since D Accres 192 169 123 123 MiniGoose HI v3 3 0 the temperature 1s now higher than both of our alarm Alarms 2 moritored thresholds the top banner summary reports Alarms 2 ee Sensors monitored 2 TRIPPED 0 UNPLUGGED The internal Po SRG temperature sensor s numeric reading 1s still red and Beere e 20465 the unit has now tried to send another e mail this time s to our building maintence supervisor and HVAC L u technician as well as to our sysadmin and has sent an SNMP trap to our SNMP monitor These same principles apply to both internal and external sensors devices and readings Note that the alarm settines in the Alarms page all function independently of each other i e any sensor exceeding any of its associated alarm threshold s will trip that alarm and cause the action s selected by the checkboxes regardless of whether any other sensors are currently in alarm or not Likewise any sensor readings grouped under a particular physical sensor device are still independent of each other 1 e Just becau
82. supported Additional models may be supported 1n future firmware upgrades It 1s possible that other models from the same manufacturer s might also work if they are sufficiently similar to one of the listed models but the use of non supported cameras cannot be guaranteed or supported SAM y AF HT Seriur ID E100000269CF2314 For this function to work correctly the IP cameras must be reachable by the computer you are browsing from not by the MiniGoose II itself This is an important distinction for those users who intend to administer their systems over the public internet from remote locations Since the images do not pass through the MiniGoose II and are not served from it but are instead served directly from the cameras by embedded lt IMG gt tags in the web page it is not sufficient merely for the MiniGoose II to be accessible from a public static IP address from outside your facility s local network and firewall the IP cameras must also be exposed and browsable from outside as well Otherwise these thumbnails will appear as blank spaces or broken link icons in your browser and clicking on them will not take you to the live camera image U Test SNMP Trap and E Mail buttons These at least should be fairly self explanatory Once you have your E mail and SNMP settings configured you can test them by clicking either of these buttons and a test event will be broadcast to all of the e mail addresses or SNMP managers which hav
83. t of the firmware if necessary Itis Enabled by default but can be Disabled if you prefer For further details on how to use the Telnet service refer to Appendix B u The Configuration Monitoring page The next page of configuration settings is Configuration Monitoring which contains all of the network settings that specifically relate to environmental alarms and monitoring E mail SNMP and Cameras You will also find a pair of controls that let you test your e mail and SNMP settings without actually having to drive one of your sensors into an alarm condition U E mail settings This set of controls allows you to configure the unit to send e mail alerts Note that in order to send alerts the wr soror MM MiniGoose II must be able to reach the outgoing e mail Mill HYNN server through your network and log into it with the rom C rr address TEE credentials you provide and the server must be a standard o SMTP mail server i e the MiniGoose II cannot log into hei and use a Microsoft Exchange server unless that server is Io mai address 4 configured to also permit SMTP as well as Exchange s ania proprietary protocol These too should be reasonably Pora rort IE eile fg fect aa familiar if you ve had occasion to set up an e mail client 2 a me Userra Te before o bb NO a pave Changes The first field SMTP Server allows you to specify the outgoing mail serv
84. t the top of the file lt network status 0 ip address 192 168 123 123 netmask 255 255 255 0 gateway 192 168 123 1 http port 80 https port 443 web protocols both telnet enable 1 gt lt dns num0 ip address 208 67 222 222 gt lt dns num0 gt lt dns numl ip address 208 67 222 220 gt lt dns numl gt lt network gt Here you could save multiple copies of the XML file one for each unit to be configured changing the ip address netmask gateway and the DNS settings as appropriate for each unit We do not recommend changing the other settings from here in particular status web protocols and telnet enable should be left alone To import a saved configuration into the unit from a previously saved XML file on your PC 1 Click the Browse button browse to the directory you saved the XML file to then double click to select the appropriate file 2 Click the Upload Local XML File button and wait The upload process may take a few minutes depending on the size of the update file and network traffic As the XML configuration data is uploaded and parsed you will see a series of progress messages once you see the message XML file upload succeeded the process is complete 3 Return to the unit s web page keeping in mind that depending on the XML settings its IP address may have changed and it should now have the newly imported configurations in place U SSL Certificate and Private Key SSL Certif
85. ternal sensor If you have reason to believe this is the case you can use this control to compensate for this self heating effect by adjusting this control setting you can cause the MiniGoose II to Do La Do from 1 F to 13 F _ ies to d 22 C from its internal temperature readings Note that this does not affect any external temperature measuring devices Internal Temperature Offset applies only to the RET iemperature sensor Also note the accuracy of the MiniGoose II sensors is 0 5 C approx 0 9 F Most inexpensive 1 e non laboratory grade thermometers and temperature measurement devices will generally have similar levels of accuracy at best This means that even if you place the MiniGoose II within an inch or two of another thermometer for comparison the measurements can be as far as 17C 1 8 F apart and still be within each respective device s range of accuracy The Interface Type control allows you to switch between any of four different web page appearances Interface Type Contemporary MiniGoose II y MiniGoose II I Address 192 Lo 13 Le MiniGaose II v3 3 0 j IP Acdress L42 168 DWRN MiniGoose II 3 3 0 aan ate lus Local Time Mor 12 27 09 14 52 08 zcal m Mon 12 07 08 14 50 57 Allis well 2 aanms monitored Sensors MiniGoose 1 1D 20C539CAID 1000057 I errperature F MiniGoose II ID 26L53CAF0100005 7 MM T gb FA 5 85 84 83 PDA Phone XML
86. that there have been a lot of changes Unlike the older system the MiniGoose II allows you to set Alarms E mail Traps Allis well 1 alarms monitored Alarms multiple alarm points for each sensor and Temperature F z selectively determine where the alerts are sent ma mr PEE fe are making it easy to set up an escalating series of alerts for a single condition or send different EI TSH kinds of alerts to the personnel or departments 1 PDA Phone akioa best suited to deal with them For example a xmi 1 Mi Add New Alarm water sensor could be configured to alert both your system administrator and building maintenance supervisor while a high temperature alarm could be made to send an e mail directly to your HVAC technician s cell phone or pager As before you can also selectively set off SNMP traps As you can see in the screenshot above the attached sensors are divided up in the same fashion as the Sensors page with each physical sensor device including the MiniGoose II s internal sensors having their own separate block Within each block are the alarms 1f any configured for that particular device s sensor group Currently this MiniGoose II has a single alarm configured if the internal temperature sensor exceeds 85 0 F an e mail will be sent to the address that corresponds to email1 on the Config Monitoring page We ll deal with setting up e mail addresses and SNMP trap destinations later but since this i
87. the Name and Password Configuration options block Here you can set up to three levels of password protection for the MiniGoose II allowing you to restrict which user s in your organization are able to view or change the unit s settings Although these settings are optional IT Watchdogs highly recommends that you at least set up the Administrator account to prevent unauthorized changes to the network and administrative settings If a given account s username and password fields are left blank then the level s of access controlled by that account are available to anyone who connects to the unit Accounts are listed in order of privilege from highest to lowest and lower privilege accounts cannot be set unless the higher privilege accounts above them are set as well i e you cannot have a Control account without an Administrator account and you cannot have a View Only account without both a Control and Administrator account U Administrator this account has complete access to the MiniGoose II all pages are viewable and any setting can be changed including the ability to change any other account s passwords Note that this account is the only account which can access the Config page and that you must configure this account before you can configure the Control or View Only accounts u Control this account is able to view all of the web pages except for the Config page and is able to change alarm settings on the Alarms
88. til you install it in your network and change your computer s network card settings back to the correct ones for your network poa Phone XML MIB Web Server Protocols HTTP and HTTPS For the moment these settings cane gt HP Pom Wi be left alone MU Telnet Service Save Changes MnlGoeee D Sensas DynP oge azila Nre dc And that s it Your new MiniGoose II is now ready to mount in your server rack and begin logging data In the following sections we will cover each of the unit s functions in more detail and show you how to set up alarm thresholds configure e mail and SNMP alerts sensor options cameras and all the rest er a PNM k ATEFA zA Wyn Wyd Ap i i La yM 42au tg Li re Wyd III h TIP if you are using a single pe FT c4 Command Prompt PC to configure severa mse cn eer ee MiniGoose II units in a row one a tas uc ugs kt HOS after the other you may find that Mafii some units appear slow or unresponsive when first connected to the PC This is often caused by the operating system and network stack remembering the MAC ID of the previous unit at the 192 168 123 123 address and continuing to try to send packets to that MAC instead of the current units MAC This can be overcome either by waiting a few minutes for the remembered MAC to expire from the ARP table this can take anywhere from 2 20 minutes depending on your O S and version or by openi
89. time setup of the unit a more detailed in depth coverage of each available setting will be covered later in the chapter on Configuration The Config page is subdivided into sections with similar functions and settings grouped together to make them easier to find When you click on the Config tab the Configuration Network page will appear by default to move to one of the other pages simply click on one of the other tabs underneath Config The Network tab is where you can either assign the MiniGoose 11 MiniGoose II to a specific IP address on your network or er Tr Wd 3 570 124790 configure it to request its network configuration from your router via DHCP You can also configure the Web Server to allow or deny encrypted HTTPS or non encrypted HTTP connections change the HTTP and HTTPS ports i and configure the MiniGoose II to use a desired set of C Use DIICP tr Network Corfigurstion and Static CNG server adcresses tsa Static Network corfigaration and DNE server adcresses MiniGoose II v3 3 0 Configuration Current Network Contiguration set statically Config DNS servers oe IP Adcress J32 168 123 123 Cub et Mask 255 255 255 0 Gateway 132160 1 23 1 Pr ittict y ONS Sur ver 2us 6 2zz 222 Secondary DNS Server ana AZ 2 27N fon our previous NAM Ose I product where the EL backup 192 168 123 123 address was always available PR Phone Therefore we will skip over these setting
90. to aisp ay 1t aS thougn it were a web page or a text Ille 29 cc should choose XML file dialog box Web Page XML Only or similar as the Save As Type in the file saving U Also note some versions of the Opera browser prior to Opera 10 may attempt to parse or display the XML data as an unstyled web page rather than displaying the XML data which may result in a seemingly blank page If you wait until the page finishes you can still Save As even cc MU page RH GR blank SS make sure that i ile or for the Save vill write an incorrect gyn ym ar eg value into the XML Reais if you choose one of the XML File options which could cause the MiniGoose II to reject the file when you try to upload it back into the unit Once the file has been saved to your local PC you can use any text or XML editor to view and modify the information in it before uploading it back into other Goose II units A full explanation of all of the XML fields is well beyond the scope of this manual and most of them you probably will not want to directly modify via the XML data anyway since it s much easier to change them from the unit s web page However one set of parameters which you might want to modify before cloning across multiple units are the network IP settings if you have multiple units to configure each with its own statically assigned IP address you can open the XML file and look for the following lines a
91. twork administrator For Speed 100 0 Mbps This connection uses the following items the appropri ate IP settings iw IS Client for Microsoft Networks M A File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks ot oS Packet Sched Obtain an IP address automatically elnternet Protocol TCP IP Activity sent 4 Received o ma ___Propeties IP address 192 168 123 100 Co Description Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol The default Subnet mask 2566 2565 AR Bytes 1 509 824 4 086 679 wide area network protocol that provides communication E across diverse interconnected networks a Default gateway V Show icon in notification area when connected VW Notify me when this connection has limited or no connectivity Disable Obtain DHS server address automatically f Use the following ONS server addresses Prefered DMS server Alternate DMS server Advanced Lancel Once you have configured your network card to access the MiniGoose II open your web browser and type http 192 168 123 123 into the address bar You should get a page which looks similar to this MiniGoose II ID Addrace 102 1 amp 2 122 123 Local Time Clock not set Allis well O alarms monitored Sensors Se pied IX ID 28C53CAF01000057 BE temperature F 82 85 F I st time power up a i im clock is not set dl memory has no logged data No data to graph PDA Phone XML MIB
92. uble click on the appropriate network adapter s entry in the Network Connections list to open its status dialog box then click the Properties button to open the Properties dialog fig 1 4 Find the entry titled Internet Protocol TCP IP in the list then click the Properties button fig 2 5 NOTE Before changing any of the properties on this page be sure to write down any existing settings so that you can restore them afterwards 6 Set the properties as shown fig 3 Note that it is not necessary to specify a default gateway or DNS server addresses and these fields should be left blank Click OK OK and Close to back out of the network settings boxes 7 The MiniGoose II should now be accessible Note that depending on your PC s configuration and OS version it may reguire you to reboot for the changes to take effect 8 After you have finished configuring the MiniGoose II simply repeat the above instructions and put back the settings you wrote down in step 5 to restore your PC s network card to the proper settings for your network 21x General Support zix Internet Protocol TCP IP Properties General Authentication Advanced 2 x General Connection Connect using _ ye Ep 3Com EtherLink XL 10 100 PCI For C fou can get IP settings assigned automatically if your network supports ped S l l He this capability Otherwise you need to ask your ne
93. without a password Old Password New Password New Password Again again to confirm Warming Recond your password Loss of password may require lt 3 hours to recowar Control Account Name If blank Control and view Only access is granted without a password Old Password New Password New Password Again again to confirm Warning Recond your password Loss of password may requine lt 3 hours to recover View Only Account Name If blank Wiews access is granted without a password Qld Password New Password New Password again again to confirm F Warning Recon ymu assword Loss of password may reguine 52 fours Io recower Save Changes Contact Name Miara ry SEPO eee gt Waming Record your password Loss of password may require 48 hours to recover Save Changes Contact Name John Doe Comact Email john doe foo com sysContact Contact Phone 000 123 5678 Device Location Somewhere sysLocation Device Descriptior sysName2 Save Changes Jnit Location Somewhere Unit Description Admin or C3 000 123 5678 Support or Call 512 257 1462 Conwriqht 6 Y TW All Right Pacare For the moment the rest of the settings on the various Config pages can be left alone Go ahead and click on the Network tab to go back to the Config Network Settings page and we ll configure the unit s IP and DNS settings for your network U Network You can either assign your IP Subn
94. y monitor or sn nalyze u amera UY s It merely embeds the still Cem 3 IP addroco HER image into its gg page and makes it a clickable link WN Hn which you can use as a convenient way to guickly access i the camera itself Any actual camera monitoring Save Changes functions such as image sequence or video recording motion detection etc must be performed by the camera itself and its associated application software if any or by a We ny cd a ap p rop riate 3rd p arty software a i Allis well O alarms monitored Any cameras configured here will be displayed on the Sensors Sensors Sensors page beneath the unit s history graph in order MiniGoose I ID 20051cAr01000057 from left to right e perclus F 8240 F All four pairs of IP Address and Model controls work identically IP Address of course specifies the IP address of the camera you wish to display Model specifies the make and model of camera which is at that address Note that it is necessary for you the user to specify the model of camera because different cameras even ones from the same brand or manufacturer often have distinctly different methods of retrieving a still image as an web page embeddable JPEG and often do not provide any easy way for an outside device such as the MiniGoose II to determine the make and model of camera on its own Note also that due to these behavioral differences between camera models only the models listed in the drop down box are

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