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1. 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 WeatherGoose 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 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
2. Maximum lo3gab e time span 24 30 days l iti Maxi loggable ti 24 38 d now with the addition of the two external sensors our can e e Toe ays time has shrunk to 24 38 days Keep this in mind as you add more sensor devices to your WeatherGoose II system the r more e devices you have the faster your memory will fill up and the shorter your history can be Note Update Graph Clicking on the Click here to download CSV log Click here to download CSV log data data link will cause your browser to download the accumulated log history Be patient depending on the amount of data in memory this could take a few minutes As mentioned before this file is in a plain text ASCII format known as comma separated values which fe 2sssao nearly any spreadsheet or data analysis program likely to 7 7 be found on the Windows Mac or Linux platforms E 5Lx2s particular shot was taken using the OPENOFFICE CALC ixxcs ual alu OyeriDl newury Cale Iis dt see drzet oma icck ote Cercee Iep geek EBs Ee te AUN VIAABMEQIGS SE Jha a n el BF U SESS Sm E H BK H O o A een EYL B AKA 1 amp 22 9 CO 47 47 3 E 20H23 BP JEUILH AH AE n 2208 CO C0 4 should be able to import easily When opened the result 5 5 will look much like the screen shot to the right This faires spreadsheet but other spreadsheet programs should look rs similar an 5 A Aue PME IR Ae DA I CIF AF 35 Aor 2
3. S perGopse II v3 1 33 xarn as monitored Sensors WixGoos 1 m F BE Humidity E int Level j LOO bright Jair Flow LOO rushing Bod Level quiet eg noucd ID O1FA893B11000085 AF H ID ABOODDe ae i Flow 66 LOO rushing Lai Relative Humidity Pee te reel WAN orl 1 ADM Hip 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 Weathergoose II and SuperGoose II 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 WeatherGoose Il setup guide amp user manual rev 1 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
4. uyuuuauuguuuaucuuuuuuUnmutusuctiwut J naguuungucgcuaanaouumunnunuuumu n NENT Ise ISR IEE IGEN ene ene en NENT NEEN ITE Ieee uN en 2 OLBOLBOGILE QOERB ILES GOILEIOQILIOLEOLR OC LR COUR ngpunpranigsdigsgcigswigspgispuinpuanprurn OLFOLS ORR IGE IGS IE IROL OLSO LEO nn AoA ss Boo so on D LAOLE UD LI F 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 equivalent 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 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 equipment While altering these settings will not harm or disable your unit they can cause the unit to appea
5. Uaccount 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 can 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 deletelog deletes the logged sensor data help by itself gives a list of available commands help command 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 U 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 re
6. zu M it merely indicates a relative level of air movement past the sensor with a reading of 20 being ouch equivalent to still air and 100 indicating a high flow roughly equivalent to being positioned a few inches away from a desk fan at its highest setting Ambient Light Sensor This sensor measures the ambient light level in the WeatherGoose II s immediate vicinity The sensor is not calibrated to a fixed scale such as lux or candlepower rather it is a relative measurement Typical office lighting will produce a reading between 80 90 while a darkened room will usually read 20 or less although this will of course depend on how much illumination is generated by nearby equipment or from adjoining rooms or hallways e 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 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 is 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 WeatherGoose II is actively acquiring data from the bus can cause a spontaneous abort of the current scan cycle Such
7. whatever the reason the result is that the M sao WeatherGoose II is no longer able to monitor one or T c RS MIA more of the conditions you re relying on it to monitor High Trip pss O MoCo ee To illustrate this let s add an alarm condition to the O nm AF HT Sensor connected to our example unit as shown at left SuperGoose II IP Address 192 158 123 123 Our Sensors page now shows All is well 3 alarms Local Tene Tha 01 02 00 07 17 37 SuberGoose Il v3 1 33 monitored Now we ll physically disconnect the d AF HT Sensor device from the WeatherGoose II and Sensors Sensors see what happens After about a minute or so the message switches SuperGoose II A i Cees Yen e to Alarms 3 monitored 0 TRIPPED 1 UNPLUGGED cal Tire Th 04 02 09 06 11 11 SuperGoase 1I 3 1 33 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 Supercose BYARD UNPLUGGED alarm state Its information block on the Sensors page will also change to indicate that the LEER cA Bose 73 63 F UNPLUGGEC device is no longer active on the Digital Sensor Bus B oe and that an alarm condition has occurred lyon Re 80 When a sensor device goes UNPLUGGED any a 50 alarms associated with that device go into an alarm condition just as though the alarm thresholds had b
8. Call 512 257 1 All Right eserved WEATHERGOOSE II USER MANUAL Appendix B Using the Telnet service menu The WeatherGoose 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 prove useful to an administrator who needs to reboot or reset a unit remotely after an accidental misconfiguration prompt or shell which can be used to launch programs or perform arbitrary file system operations it is merely a system configuration menu which uses the Telnet protocol rather than HTTP Nevertheless 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 WeatherGoose 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 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
9. E mail Address goose goldenegg com To E mail Address 1 loogbarcom OILS To E mail Address 2 neg posnet To E mail Address 3 alpha beta org To E mail Address 4 zz9gppluralzalpha 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 As you can see the checkbox assignments are fairly straightforward email1 through email5 then trap1 and trap2 numbered left to right Since these screenshots were taken from a SuperGoose II unit there is also a checkbox for the audible alert buzzer WeatherGoose II units will not have that checkbox 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 Buzzer E mail Traps 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 clarify what we mean by the terms sensor devices and sensor group vs U A sensor or sensor reading refers to a condition that is monitored by a sensor device devices can have more than one sensor reading UA sensor device sensors or sensor readings Note that some is a physical
10. The three levels of accounts have the following privileges U Administrator this account has ate access s to o the WeatherGoose 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 gm ae 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 in
11. bottom The analog inputs can be used to monitor any dry contact pair such as a door switch a relay pressure switch etc or any analog output device which outputs a proportional 0 5VDC signal In general the readings will appear as follows U When used with a dry contact pair the reading will show 99 when the contacts are open and 0 or close to it when the contacts are closed If the wires are excessively long their internal resistance may cause the reading to not quite reach 0 U When used with an analog voltage device a reading of 0 99 KS es to an input voltage of 0 SVDC Mute ERE U If nothing is connected to a particular terminal it will read 99 open contact continuously e Environmental Sensor Tab This tab which is protected by a metal guard contains the ambient air sensors which ff measure temperature humidity and airflow The airflow sensor is most sensitive to air movement in the directions indicated by the arrows in the picture at right Note that in order to damp out sudden transitory variations due to turbulence the sensor has a slow response filter and changes in airflow can take a couple of minutes to be displayed thus the sensor is not able to trigger an immediate alarm upon a sudden cessation of airflow The airflow sensor is more suitable for monitoring trends such as a steady decline in atow which could indicate a fan bearing going or a filter becoming clogged or blocked The a iot
12. due t to ceased RF interference and dr 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 WeatherGoose II and other such methods for shielding low voltage signals against external interference but these techniques are highly dependent on your particular operating environment and are not guaranteed Analog Dry Contact Input Terminals s Gate 192 168 1231 sie This grey 5 terminal block is used to connect non digital sensors such as current transformers door switches or water sensors Three analog inputs are f provided numbered 1 2 and 3 the two terminals labeled C are the electrical common or ground Two C connections are provided for convenience internally they are tied together so it doesn t matter which E sensor s are connected to which terminal As you can see in the above photo each terminal consists of two openings The larger square opening at the bottom is where the wire is inserted the smaller narrower opening above is used to open the spring loaded jaws inside the terminal block so the wire can be inserted Simply insert a small flat blade screwdriver into the upper slot then pry upwards to open the spring loaded jaw slip the sensor wire into the larger
13. 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 WeatherGoose 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 WeatherGoose II like its predecessor is able to Cameras display still image thumbnails for up to four IP cameras Carn 1 IP Address UTD as Buon of us Mun ists SEIEN on the Sensors page hu 4 ote that the WeatherGoose II does not actually monitor vocet RE amara alyze the camera nem t prem embeds the still Cam3 Ades UE image into its web page and makes it a clickable link naw ay which you can use as a convenient way to quickly access Medel No camera ej the camera itself Any actual camera monitoring ESSEN 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 sedes appropri ate j rd p arty sof
14. fi 2345578 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 WeatherGoose 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 the 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
15. 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 This e mail address does not necessarily need to be any of the alarm recipients specified in the Config Monitoring page and the unit will not attempt to send alarm or status e mails to this address Device Description Since the WeatherGoose 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 WeatherGoose 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 XYL Filc XML Tile Browse Upload neal 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 eue use your browser s save as function to save m dis
16. 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 in more detail in the section devoted to the Display page A final 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 Es UTE These allow EDU to specify an alarm state in either unit of temperati aeae ni and it 1 eer ler i emperatu ie Dis age The WeatherGoose I mue keeps track of and converts em areola aad 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 tinal set of controls to be covered on the Unplugged Alerts Enabled Alarms page is the Alarm Behavior section Currently this section has a single control i aati iid ac Unplugged Alerts which has two options Seve Changes Enabled or Disabled This control determines whether or not the WeatherGoose I
17. spontaneous aborts are harmless to the WeatherGoose II and attached i Myer Whee Dysi uge Ci T EE U Horn Off Button SuperGoose II only U LCD Status Display SuperGoose II only sensors themselves but in rare conditions they may fool the unit into sending an erroneous alarm trip or sensor disconnect alert message This pushbutton is used to silence the audible alert buzzer on the SuperGoose II Once the alert buzzer has been silenced for a particular device alarm it will remain a silenced until that particular device alarm clears however it can still be reactivated 1f some other device alarm is tripped This LCD display reflects the unit s current status Normally it provides a rotating display of the current sensor readings which readings are displayed is controlled by the same checkboxes on the Logging page which control which readings are graphed on the Logging page s graph See the section dealing with the Logging page for more details If no boxes are checked on the Logging page the LCD display will read No Devices 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 WeatherGoose II s internal sensors plus any external sensors which may be connected to the Digital Sensor Bus or
18. 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 and DNS server settings The unit redi eee omae Suber oose ID v3 3 0 can either attempt to acquire them All is well O alarms monitored via DHCP or use static addresses you specify in the fields below Unit_name_here Configuration Network Current Network Configuration set statically Use DHCP for Network Configuration and DNS Server Addresses Use DHCP for Network Configuration and Static ONS server addresses D mo LOIS ries U Static IP network address settings m are entered into these boxes RC m IP Address 192 168 123 123 Subnet Mask 255 255 2550 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 Gateway Primary DNS Server 208 67 222 222 Secondary DNS Server 208 87 222 220 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 until you install it in your network and change your computer s net
19. the way up or down the page to find them there 1s no difference between the two Currently our example unit is set to display a month s worth of data However this particular unit hasn t been running for a month in fact at the time these screenshots were taken it had only been 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 We use the Time Range drop down box to select the 2 hours range then click Update Graph The WeatherGoose II obligingly redraws the graph showing us the previous two hours worth of data The rest of the data still exists in the system s memory of course it s simply off screen Logging Update Graph Time Rare h Month e MAII AIT TEE o II T Wee en IP S PH y SuperGoose Il L1bDE25 z11UL JULD errpersture Fue Feative Humidity Iw iyt L Leval Air Fow fa sound Leval PNA Phone aia D alah j nmn iri sedge Migliore A XML MID 3n i l il yi N M A N M a i 1 n IM 10 24h 2Ch 16h 12F 84 4h Oh Update Graph Tire Rarige fz Hours 8 SuperGuuse II 3260E55311030000 Tampereture F V Relative lurnidity F Light Level Ar Flow v Scund Level rabg 1 E PDA Phone pirak E XML MID Currently the example unit
20. these 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 1s the same unit that had been running for 24 hours on its 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 shows us the last two hours worth of data with the AF HT Sensor and CCAT Water Sensor suddenly appearing only 15 minutes ago Notice what else has changed Previously the unit Update Graph RENE FIUFTIIGIC W 82 Liu il Level V Ar Flow 73 Srund evel A aralog L Arabg 2 Arabg 3 Logging 6 AF HT Sensnr 20000029LD352314 PDA Phnne Tempe ah re IF XML MIB ar Flow J Relative lurridit Water Sensor 3500000384FC 17 Le Wator Update Graph ogging Time Range p Hours AM AAP DENM unl MJ u uv el lime kange 2 Hours nV Pm Por nl 5uperGoose II J 6DES5S531102000D T2mpereture F 4 Relative lurnidity Iv Light Level v Ar Flow Scund Level F arahg 1 pt Arabg 2 Pus P EH Arabg 30 AF HT Sensor 20000029EB335314 Tempe at re iF 4 ar Flow 7 J Relative Ll ridite FA z 120n Temperature F Relative Hurrid ty Light evel Scund Level Temperati re F Relative Hurrid ty Water SLpersoose iI SiperSoose II SLper 3oose 1 SiperSoose I AF HT Sensnrr AF HT Sensor Water Senso
21. to the Analog Dry Contact Input terminals The tabs along the left hand side of the page provide access to the rest of the WeatherGoose II s functions You can also download the unit s SNMP MIB file from this page via a link underneath the page tabs SuyerLewe Uo Abime Dyrup redha brefone EB LI WE ME e MORAN i e e Al age E Ate ee TE Dele sel E arms p 8 q w 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 WeatherGoose II alarm system has several significant enhancements over the original WeatherGoose I including 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 The checkboxes controlling which sensors are graphed also control which sensors are displayed in ro
22. 000 00 18 47 WO Aor 2009 09 19 47 Depending on the spreadsheet program you may be i288 asked to provide some details about the data format so that ms i it can be properly imported If any of the following parameters are asked for be sure to set them as follows doe 7d 4 te 74 74 74 c 74 74 c 74 74 74 c 734 74 7e 724 74 7 74 74 74 c 74 74 ce 34 74 c4 f 74 74 fe 73 74 7e D C X0 e X D 2C MOK MO MN Com Coo fcov eoxvowsmeosmocoe ftom ses 2 5 2 UJ C 2 UJ UJ CI S 4 4 54 74 9 UJ CI 9 UJ C 9 UJ UJ CI 9 54 74 4 CI 9 5 UJ C 5 UJ CI e Character set Western Europe Windows 1252 WinLatin 1 0r Western Europe ASCII US e Separator options Separated by Comma The final aspect of the Logging page to be covered is how the settings on this page control the SuperGoose II s logging ed ine kange sued LCD status display If you are not using a SuperGoose d i T2mpereture F II you can skip this section E Ar Flow T 5 i Scund Level v As mentioned earlier the same checkboxes which pile PDA Phone Aral T control which measurements are displayed on the graph 20000029EB35314 also determine which measurements are shown on the Temperature Fe Relative Ll ecicty I E 1205 05r LCD status display assuming the LCD is set to the Measurements display mode More about this option in the next section dealing with the Display page Any measurements which are checkboxed here are sh
23. 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 WeatherGoose 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 WeatherGoose II and seeing which network adapter s status changes from Connected to Network Cable Unplugged 3 Double 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 pr
24. Click here to download CSV log data first group at the top of the list and external Digital Sensor Bus devices are listed underneath vr If the list grows longer than the box a scroll bar Loma Q aus Oa ht served will appear allowing you to scroll up and down through the list 2 The Time Range drop down box lets you change the horizontal time scale 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 amou
25. Goose 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 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 U Administrator this account has complete access to the WeatherGoose II all pages are viewable and any setting can be changed including the ability to change any other accounts 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 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 cha
26. I 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 interference 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 The next stop on our tour of the WeatherGoose II system 1s the Logging page Here you can examine your logged data in greater detail by selectively changing the eraph s time scale or removing traces from the graph so Supertsoose II IP Address 132 168 123 124 PTS Loca ime Thu 04 02 09 10 29 07 DEMNM ITE ES Allis well O alarms monitored Logging Logging that only the measurements of interest are displayed You Er can also download the logged data or erase it from the a cet unit s memory as desired On a SuperGoose II this page vm also controls which measurements are shown on the LCD I status display PECCATI Sd Let s take a brief overview of the various items on this page and then we ll demonstrate a couple of examples on pae tundte Ae Soros 1 how to use them 1 This group of checkboxes controls which measurements are displayed on the graph The A E measurements are grouped by sensor device the e m anl eu WeatherGoose II s internal sensors are always the
27. MP managers whereas previously all traps were globally broadcast to all specified managers The WeatherGoose II also supports SNMP v2c and permits the sending of v2c type NOTIFY events rather than v1 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 WeatherGoose 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 are 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 WeatherGoose II belongs for GET operations Any SNMP manager attempti
28. NMPv3 style NOTIFY 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 is not the same as the LISTEN port Initial SNYPY3 data Unautl enticated User inital Initial SNMPV3 data settings As of firmware revision v3 3 x the WeatherGoose II autertcsted menager manager re erriratinn series includes support for the newer SNMP v3 protocol ne MN Menager Privacy ji 2345678 Password as well as legacy support for v1 and v2c The v3 standard offers a number of important security and remote configuration enhancements including message HORE ao EEREE authentication privacy and access control this section Save Changes uml ur Reset SNMPV3 Nur vulatile RAM will allow you to view and configure the WeatherGoose Ils 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 Trap User Trap Irap Authenrication
29. SuperGoose li CEDO00022EE35311 dir owScreacr ARH Sensor ZEO0000324FC17 4 watercensor Water Sensor Remove all urpli3zcd ccvices 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 Interface Type control and click the by now familiar Save Changes button and from that point on the web pages will show in your preferred style Austere may be of particular interest to those users who may need to frequently access their WeatherGoose II units from devices such as PDAs mobile phones or over slower dial up connections as it 1s 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 although it won t be entirely identical of course since the WeatherGoose II has many new features and options which the Goose I series lacks The last control in this section is Scroll on LCD This option which only appears on SuperGoose II units controls the behavior of the LCD status display Measurements mode implements the familiar display cycling mode described previously where the current readings of each measurement selected on the Logging page are displayed in sequential order Alarms mode causes the LCD to only
30. a high temperature _Bave Changes 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 or on the SuperGoose II activate the internal audible alarm buzzer ur Cal OOC 122 5678 or Call 512 257 Support 52 Copyrigrt 2303 2009 All 3igats Reserved 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 WeatherGoose II s internal sensors having their own separate block Within each block are the alarms if any configured for that particular device s sensor group Currently this WeatherGoose 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 emai11 on the Config Monitoring page We ll deal with setting up e mail addresses and SNMP trap destinations later but since this is a major new feature in the WeatherGoose 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 TORTE High Trip 85 0 m Emma mm From
31. 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 WeatherGoose 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 SMTP 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 connecti
32. 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 function is 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 WeatherGoose II some mail systems require 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
33. and trap2 destinations can be set by adding those commands followed by the SNMP host destination port settings port 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 WEATHERGOOSE II USER MANUAL Appendix C Configuring the WeatherGoose 1 for use with some popular free 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 WeatherGoose 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 if you do not already have one there To configure your WeatherGoose II to use one of these services as its outgoing e mai
34. 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 differences between browsers you may or may not see an in progress report as each block of data 1s 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 7 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 Upload succeeded def ault S ensors p age Please wait 50 seconds while system reboots If you are not redirected please click link below Under normal circumstances a firmware update will not erase your log history unit configuration or alarm settings However if you want to take extra caution simply download all of your logged data from the 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 WEATHERGOOSE II USER MANUAL Appendix A PDA Phone View shown here PDA Phone XML MIB In addition to the standard web page view the WeatherGoose II offers a compressed view of the Sensors page suitable for the small screens of a PDA or internet capable cell phone This compressed
35. ck once it has been installed The illustrations below show the front panels of a WeatherGoose II and a SuperGoose II As you can see they are nearly identical except for the LCD display and the button to manually silence the audible alert The audible alert buzzer and the microphone which acts as an ambient sound level sensor are inside the unit and not visible from the front panel POWER DC ETHERNET SENSOR TAB AMBIENT LED POWER JACK Temperature LIGHT JACK Humidity amp Airflow SENSOR E d IT ede 4 internal Sensors 13 f b A A u CU gt j P 5 www itwatcthdoc RESET DIGITAL ANALOG SENSOR BUS BUTTON SENSOR DRY CONTACT IDLE ACTIVITY JACKS 5 INPUT TERMINALS INDICATORS 1 HORN OFF UNIT STATUS CABLE LOOMS BUTTON DISPLAY LCD On the back of the unit you will find a threaded grounding point which is threaded to take 10 32 hardware and can accommodate screws up to 12 deep This can be used to earth ground the case which can often be helpful in suppressing EM noise issues in electrically noisy environments if you find that your WeatherGoose II sometimes generates spurious sensor disconnected errors with no other apparent physical cause such as loose connections damaged cables etc try connecting a heavy gauge copper Ero BR Wire 110 32 THREADED GROUNDING POINT U DC Power Jack and Power LED The WeatherGoose II runs on low voltage DC power supplied here via a standard DC bar
36. d 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 Cis TIP if you are unable to reach the WeatherGoose II mr 1 1 l x f _p Search Sy Face x 1 d Fal from your web browser when the unit is directly connected som 0 8 ase to your computer via a crossover cable try opening a aal Eenzral Sezut Prvact Contest Cacnectans gt roqiare pdvarcad command prompt as above and issuing the command ping 55 _ iee memme 192 168 123 123 to see if the unit responds If the unit a e iir responds to pings make sure your browser isn t set to use a proxy server if it is you may need to temporarily disable C 0 ete ere proxies in order to reach the unit over a direct connection m LIE pst monti tigar E Thocse Iettings t yzu reed t co ligure a crac Sx ONAN ropa ov Ale serve fot a ccn eticn e ova Area N Ie ok NJ sellis AN Settinzs do nzt azp zz d a u con eztiznz l harsa engs shove For iship se ngs U in Internet Explorer the proxy settings can be found under Tools gt Connections gt LAN Settings U in Firefox the prox
37. d 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 curt Sever e WeatherGoose II must be able to reach the outgoing e di ee mail server through your network and log into it with the Tram E mal Adcress credentials you provide and the server must be a standard ee SMTP mail server i e the WeatherGoose II cannot log vlad s Wis into and use a Microsoft Exchange server unless that E E vail adores 4 server is configured to also permit SMTP as well as ce ma acces 5 NNI Exchange s proprietary protocol These too should be jode reasonably familiar if you ve had occasion to set up an iv PoE bara des en ant bero em S e mail client before eran Password The first field SMTP Server allows you to specify the Seve charges outgoing mail server the WeatherGoose 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 WeatherGoose II s e mails will appear to come from This field can generally be set to anything you like
38. dings 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 in 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 WeatherGoose II does not perform any monitoring processing or logging of the 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 current readings and history graph Each sensor oe ee ee block is titled by the friendly name of the reste Humidity 37 sensor and that sensor device s bus ID number 80 premere s the friendly name can be changed on the Display page to something more meaningful if mls desired If a sensor de
39. display sensors or measurements which have currently exceeded one or more of the alarm thresholds configured for that sensor if no sensors are in alarm the display will show NORMAL Scroll on LCD f Alarms U Devices section SuperGoose II Local Tme Sun 2009 04 05 10 43 59 9uberGoose I v3 1 33 Allis well 0 alarms monitored This section allows you to modify the friendly names of the WeatherGoose II itself and any attached E Sensors external Digital Sensor Bus devices SuperGoose IT ID 016DE553 LLOODOOD The topmost entry will always be the WeatherGoose enn en II unit itself Notice that any title placed here changes not i T rau only the name of its associated graph and measurement Er E iiim block but also the unit name in the banner at the top of the in om ns Devices Unique Address Device Type Friendly Name O16LE5531 000COD dimate SuperGoose ll C20000C29EB35314 arFlcwSensor armi Sensor 550000C38 FC1714 wralerSer sur Wate Sensui Remove all unplugged devices Save Changes Ws RA EE 4 i AF HT Sensor ID C20000029EB35314 wu iperalure F 75 83 F Flew 21 20 still 100 rushir y attire Hurnid ty 28 page Any external Digital Sensor Bus devices listed underneath can have their friendly names changed as well This makes it easy to differentiate between sens
40. e DHCP The next settings are IP Address Subnet Mask and Gateway When your WeatherGoose 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 WeatherGoose 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 WeatherGoose II 1s able to access it from your network U Web Server settings PDA Phone Web Server These settings control the behavior of the XML MIB WeatherGoose II s built in web server Map HTTPE Port 443 The first setting the Protocols drop down box has uM three possible settings 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 WeatherGoose 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 th
41. e are a lot of settings available on this page it 1s further divided ier enm pec RUDE xa dy ETT down into sub pages for ease of access Osumin U hdr oyei Mucuna Pes P x EY pum Tie sole E d H elp page Provides a basic description of the WeatherGoose II s functions WEATHERGOOSE II USER MANUAL Part 2 Basic Operation In this section we will cover the basic operation and functions of the WeatherGoose 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 names and receive alerts via e mail For SuperGoose II users we will also show how to use that model s audible alert buzzer and LCD status display 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 The Sensors Page yore ies Local Time Thu 03 19 09 11 01 22 SuperGoose II v3 1 33 This is the first page you will see whenever Allis well 0 alarms monitored you access a WeatherGoose II by its assigned IP a
42. e sensor is 76 55 F The Sensors sensors Sensors page reports All is well 2 alarms monitored and all the SuperGoose II ID 017C0E541100004D values are black indicating that all of the sensors are E ibo within the threshold s we ve set Let s see what Boo o0 O dark 100 bright happens when we warm things up a bit Su pets II The temperature has climbed to 87 96 F Now acess Lecal Time Tm ADULTO 06 09 07 SuperGoose II y3 1 35 the top banner summary reports Alarms 2 monitored Alarms 2 monitored TRIPPED 0 UNPLUGGED and the internal S gt Sensors ensors temperature sensor s numeric reading has turned red 3 E SuperBGoose II ID 017CDE541100001D to indicate that it is currently in an alarm condition Temperature F 87 96 F The unit has also sent an e mail to our sysadmin EINE UL Level 90 O dark 100 bright 99 20 still 100 rushing The temperature continues to rise now at 90 46 F it exceeds our second alarm threshold Since Paes ie ee 45 SuperGoose It v3 1 33 the temperature is now higher than both of our alarm Alarms 2 monitored thresholds the top banner summary reports Alarms 2 Sensors Sensors monito red 2 TRIPPED 0 UNPLUGGED The internal Super amp oose II ID 0170E541100004D temperature sensor s numeric reading is still red and Bless 003467 the unit has now tried to send another e mail this time E x to our building maintence superviso
43. e 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 back up again ae to 2o the Suo dos 5 segues Bus rd it m let inc unit se as normal CAUTION T N ympletely erase every set e WeatherGoose II back tc Digital Sensor Bus Jacks These are used to attach external Digital Sensor Bus devices such as the RT 20 temperature sensor or the RTAFH 20 temperature airflow humidity sensor sold separately by IT Watchdogs for use with the WeatherGoose climate monitoring series The WeatherGoose II uses the same external sensors as the previous WeatherGoose I series so if you are replacing an older WeatherGoose I unit with a WeatherGoose II in your facility you can still use all of your existing external IT Watchdogs sensor devices Five jacks are provided on the front panel allowing you to connect up to five external sensors directly to the unit If you need additional Sensors IT pcs BASSE an optional i splitter which divides one power up since exactly which sensors will be ignored will depend greatly on in what order the sensors are discovered by the WeatherGoose II during its bus scan and what their family code and ID numbers are und csured operation
44. e 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 The last setting Telnet Service determines whether the WeatherGoose 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 WeatherGoose II s parameters remotely or even initiate a full restart of the firmware if necessary It is Enabled by default but can be Disabled if you prefer For further details on how to use the Telnet service refer to Appendix B 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 an
45. ease set the system clock in config page Unit Location Somewhere Admin or Call 000 123 5678 Support or Call 512 257 1462 All Rights Reserved Done Z 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 1s 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 WeatherGoose 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 time setup of the unit a more detailed in depth coverage of each available setting w
46. een exceeded Any actions associated with those alarms e mails SNMP a or audible alarm ai will be activated Nc the pes Also when a device goes UNPLUGGED its status will be reflected on the Display page under the Unique Address Device Type Frieriuly Nane Devices section as shown here Any device which OL7COESAi100004 cimate Reis 1 1 rknown ensor has stopped responding will have the word ican ven Hn aea UNPLUGGED unplugged displayed in red to the right of its name ere 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 WeatherGoose 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 WeatherGoose II will give up trying to contact it This keeps the WeatherGoose 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 1 tl vice If this c occurs you can Elea this state either by eee a the sensor device which will restore
47. et up the Administrator account to prevent unauthorized changes to the network and administrative settings Name and Password Configuration c 5 0 tFat account MOTE 1 1 IF Accou nilly has a 22z52word e Ole Password bhrk r NOTE 2 Admini d ies assord may gt ae ron Pat vor Ic chan gt be ban NOTCE J E sstting Hew Password lo dign NoT E 4 I Nes v Password is rot bank Acc MEN d not 5e ban Admiri atur amp uccurib Narre FF blaik all acce is granted wthout z password Ok Password Naw Password New Caseword 4gan Cageiy Lo co frin Warming Record sour pessword Loss of password may require lt 3 vour to recover control amp cccunt Name IF blank Contiol snd View Cnly access is granted without 2 password OW Parswuru Naw Pass award New Faseword di i agsln to confr ing Recon ya ir pzccavard Los af passwd may require 2 n ir ta raver If a given account s username and password fields are left blank then the level s of access controlled by that dod ge E mm account are available to anyone who connects to the unit Vini Accounts are listed in order of privilege from highest to Nov rece or NE onm s lowest and lower privilege accounts cannot be set unless ESSERE 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
48. f 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 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 for 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 measurement drop down list which says REMOVE ALARM Select this option and click Save Changes and the unwanted alarm will be deleted from the list PDA Phone XML MIB REMOVE ALARM High Trip wivrNvr MP 90 0 z Add New Alarm Now let s see what happens when an alarm SuperGoose II IP Address 192 168 exceeds its threshold Currently our ambient Local Tire Tha 04 02 09 00 14 57 SuperGoose II v3 1 33 temperature according to the WeatherGoose II s HOLTER internal temperatur
49. fig Admin Options page where we will set the clock and password options Lirit araticn Sam vhere Jrit Dos riptioa cr Call 00C L2 5678 or Call 12 257 1462 cht 2003 2005 All Rgt Reserved SuperGoose II IP Acres 192 150 129 121 azal Tire Thu 12 15 73 i 10 SuperGoose IT v3 3 0 To set the clock Allis well O alarms monitored For this first time setup Set Clock method to Configuration Manu a l Al Parameters Reset ALL to Default Values Retresh DNS Cache U Set the GMT to the correct offset for your local 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 A Set C cd method Manual GMT GMT tc ccal hhinn 05 00 yag Hour Minute 09 17 40 NTP primary server FG 4324418 S 192 43 244 18 NTP secondary server 129 6 15 28 U Enter the date and time in the fields provided U For now the NTP settings can be left alone PDA Phone XML MIB U Click the Save Changes button and the clock mu will be set Seid MY EE NOTE 1 7F Ac ei rb immertly hat password leaving OW Eazsaced slank resulls in no hznges Fa thet acce inl Now scroll down the Config Admin Options page until you find the Name and Password Configuration options block Here you can set up to three levels of password protection for the Weather
50. ge 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 QuickStart 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 Uss DHCP 5 Networ Configuration anc DNS Server Addresses The first set of controls is a trio of buttons which oo M allows you to determine how the unit will get its network r adress GEASS configuration settings You can either have the unit acquire both its IP address and DNS Server settings via mM DHCP use DHCP for the IP address while using static Say ONS Save INR DNS addresses or use static addresses for both IP and Save Changes DNS The default is Use Static Network Configuration and DNS server addresses if you set this control to either of the DHCP using ERS click 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 disabl
51. hold 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 Each unit also displays its administrative information at the bottom of each web page This area is filled in by the Admin Info fields on the UM reece Te res ye 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 Unit Location Somewhere Along the left hand side of the page you ll see a column of labeled buttons These allow you to dude mese switch between the various system pages to set EE ID 017C0E541100004D alarms change the logging and display settings or ing B m configure the unit Boss ocn out Just below the last button you ll see some sound Leva O guiet 99 loud smaller links labeled PDA Phone XML and a is MIB These special function links let you jump se B03 a to a smaller simpler page more suitable for PDA al TT LA and cell phone browsers download an XML document containing the units current state 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 The WeatherGoose II s internal sensors are always displayed first at the top of the page The current rea
52. ically scale to Do o 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 16 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 will see a banner similar to this one The unit s p Abes 192168123123 aot ee friendly name is prominently displayed in large 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 Below 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 thres
53. icular 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 Note that under normal operation the internal sensors should U Sensors section This is where you can assign friendly names to any of the three Analog Dry Contact Inputs on a WeatherGoose II unit These fields work the same way as the ones in the Devices section and serve the same purpose to make it easier for the user to give meaningful names to the sensors and differentiate between them The only significant difference between the Sensors section and the Devices section is that there is no Remove all unplugged devices control for the analog inputs and these can never show as UNPLUGGED since they are part of the internal sensor group rather than a distinct device SuperGoose II ID OL6DE553 11000000 Bose F 76 56 F Sensor On Device Friendly Name ute eve 78 O dark 100 righil Analog L Internal Sensors Analog 1 Analog 2 Internal Sensors Analag2 Analog 3 Internal Sensors Analog 3 Save Changes ai Flew 14 20 still 100 rushirg Bs Level 0 O quist 99 lcud 0 0v 99 5y clog 2 99 O Ov QO 5 O Ov O 5y This diagram shows how the Analog Dry Contact friendly
54. 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 every 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 T
55. ill 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 Unit_name_here WeatherGoose II to a specific IP address on your network ee or 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 Mr HTTPS ports and configure the WeatherGoose II to use a sizes ee ees desired set of DNS servers e P Adress BSECIERETETTES 77 Cib et Mask 255 955 955 n Gateway 132 168 123 1 Primary DNS Server 208 67 222 222 Secondery CNS Server 208 67 222 220 Save Changes Allis wel O dlarris rioritored Configuration Current Network Configuration set statically from our previous Meah ooe I product where the backup 192 168 123 123 address was always available BR Web Servar Therefore we will skip over these setting for the moment Protocols IITTP and IITTFS z and come back to them as the final step in configuring the n unit Telret S2rvice Fnabled gt Instead click on the Admin tab to switch to the Eee Con
56. imities to air conditioning vents and even the relative accuracy and tolerances of the two devices Internal Temperatura D i Ottce a However it can sometimes be the case especially in tightly enclosed environments with little or no airflow that the heat generated by the WeatherGoose II s own electronics can register on its internal 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 WeatherGoose II to EE AE ER zd Li to UE Also note the accuracy of the WeatherGoose 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 WeatherGoose II within an inch or two of another thermometer for comparison the measurements can be as far as 1 C 1 8 F apart and still be within each respective device s range of accuracy The Interface Type control allows you to switch Eo yp Jy Interface Type Contemporary w between any of four different web page appearances Sre II gn I SuperGoose IT YX1 22 y Vies Evi pis ee 13 05 14 SuperGoose IT 3 1 33 Address 192 169 123 n7 i xd Sun 2CC ocd X 1305 All Ie well 0 alarms monitored Ed Sensors Sensors Super oose II ID 016DE5531100000D Superfine TE TD M1 ADF A531 1
57. ining it on the page so you have to scroll down to find them Sensor Measurement Data Graph Logging Update Graph Tire Rare P Hous gt 8 Rann eel SuperGoose II cr ADNFSS311MNMN J Tempereture F v Relative Humidity R4 63 Lignt Level M Ar Flow 5 Scund Level V 4 Araba 1 ODAJI Arabg 2 Phone XML MIB Arabg 3 Temperature T 04 SLpera3oose I Relative Hi rridd ty n Si nerannse T Light evel Super3oose I Scund Level SL per3oose I Logging Update Graph Tire Rance 2 Huus SuperGopse II O L6DE553 1 LO0030C Tamperacure Fi Iv Relative Humaity IV Light Lave v ir Flew ound Lave v Analog 1 Analog z PDA Phone Analog XML MIB AF HT Sensor Connrmi oeg s314 errparature F Air Howl 0 kie atme Himidi I zl 120m There that s better now we can see both of our new devices in the selection list Since the CCAT we added 1s programmed to interface to a water sensor it shows up in the list as Water Sensor by default These names can all be changed in the Display page more about this later So let s add the AF HT Sensor s temperature and humidity readings to the graph along with the CCAT Water Sensor s reading Again we simply check the appropriate boxes and click Update Graph And just like that our new measurements are added to the graph and color key Notice how the new measurements do not extend all the way across the graph though That s because
58. instructive or example purposes only No endorsement of the referenced companies or products by or of IT Watchdogs should be assumed or implied WEATHERGOOSE II USER MANUAL Introduction Thank you for your purchase of this WeatherGoose II remote monitoring system To get the most out of your WeatherGoose 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 Users of our previous WeatherGoose I series will want to pay particular attention to the sections dealing with network configurations and alarm settings as these functions have been significantly enhanced in WeatherGoose II and offer a considerable array of features not previously available in the earlier product series This manual covers both the WeatherGoose II and the SuperGoose II models The only difference between these two models is that the SuperGoose II is equipped with an onboard LCD display and an audible alarm otherwise both models function identically Therefore this manual will use the term WeatherGoose II as a generic term referring to both models except when describing features which are specific to the SuperGoose II model WEATHERGOOSE II USER MANUAL QuickStart Setup Guide As shipped from the factory the WeatherGoose 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
59. is graphing the unit s internal temperature humidity and airflow sensors Let s say we aren t interested in the airflow but we want to see the light and sound levels instead We move the mouse pointer to the measurement selection checkboxes under SuperGoose Il uncheck the Air Flow box and check the Light Level and Sound Level boxes then click Update Graph The graph is redrawn again with the selected measurements shown in the graph Notice how the graph goes all the way back on the light and sound levels even though we only just now asked for them to be graphed This is a key point to keep in mind the checkboxes do not change which measurements are logged only those which are shown on the graph Every measurement taken by every sensor is always logged in the unit s memory continuously regardless of the checkbox settings Notice also that our color key has changed since now we re graphing four measurements instead of three Note also that the turquoise color which was previously associated with Air Flow is now associated with Light Level Now let s add a couple of external sensor devices and see how the display changes For this example we ll plug in an AF HT Sensor and a CCAT Notice how our measurement selection box has changed A new group of measurements titled AF HT Sensor has appeared Actually both of the external devices have been added to the list but the list is now longer than the box conta
60. l server click on the Config tab then click Monitoring go to the E mail options block and set the parameters as follows depending on the service you intend to use Google Gmail U SMTP Server smtp gmail com U SMTP Port 587 U From E mail Address your Gmail e mail address e g user gmail com e 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 From E mail Address your AOL e mail address e g user aol com e POP3 Server leave blank e POPS Port 110 U Username your AOL e mail address e g userQaol 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 WeatherGoose 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 quality of service or fitness for any given application
61. larly useful to those users who intend to primarily access their WeatherGoose II units remotely via devices with lesser graphics and memory capability than a full PC such as a web capable cell phone or a netbook computer and would therefore prefer a simpler layout than the default Displav PDA Phone XML MIB The Devices and Sensors sections allow you to assign more meaningful friendly names to the WeatherGoose II unit and its associated sensor devices to make them easier to identify when 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 SuperGoose II IP Address 1 2 168 123 12z Local Tire Wed 10 20 c9 07 5455 SuDerGDose It v3 2 8 400 Allis wel 1 alarms monitored Display Date orrat USA MM DD YY empereture Unit Fahrenheit j interns Temperatura 0 Ottset WARMING Intemal temperature is pee calibrated zt the Factory The offset s ecezsary cnly when e unit ix operating in a very low airflow environment where intera bord heasing nsde tre case causes Iremal temperature to read si ghtly warmer chan me ostida alr Interface Type Contemporary j croll on LCD Alarms Save Changes Devices lirique Address 01600553 100000D Devire Tyne Friendly Name S
62. lt Subnet mask 2566 25h AR Bytes 1 509 824 4 086 679 wide area network protocol that provides communication e across diverse interconnected networks x Default gateway V Show icon in notification area when connected v Notify me when this connection has limited or no connectivity Disable C Obtain DHS server address automatically f Use the following ONS server addresses Prefered DMS server Alternate DMS server Advanced ree Once you have configured your network card to access the WeatherGoose 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 RD superGoose I Sensors DynPage Mocile Fete eM 800000000 bau ii x File Edit wiew History Bookmarks Tools Help i gt ce C3 a E http 192 168 123 123 gt I G E cooale Q Li SuperGoose II Sensors DynPage m SuperGoose II ID Addracc 102 160 122 123 Local Time Clock not set SuperGoose II v3 1 33 tl is well O alarms monitored Sensors Sensors SuperGoose II D SuperGoos V6 02a emperature F 09 e E aid M Ist tume power up bs Bo Level 90 O dark 100 bright B vues Clock is not set b l sound Level 1 O quiet 99 loud h I d d B Mal memory nas no logged aata B 99 O 0v 99 5v TE 99 O 0v 99 5v PDA Phone XML MIB No data to graph To show the graph correctly pl
63. m to a log which can later be e mailed SuperGoose II T etx Ice c3 53 55 Ava rdg on Alis wel 0 alates uccaitoced Configuration i z z s ngywo orgnunguninmaigsnguninunguirungun zl 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 WeatherGoose 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 reducing network traffic and the amount of data needing to be logged and reviewed These improvements will be especially apparent if it should be necessary to gather diagnostic information over an extended period 8 8 DLBOLBOIL IRE JEBJLEGILIDLBO LED LE CI E g EME 2 mapmpanpmamamomaumlng kcd
64. me enone address or URL Here you can get an at a glance view of every sensor being a by your Eo resa particular unit along with the unit s name and IP Bleus 6 d d l l ti fi d Bo Level O dark 100 bright address local time firmware version and as we B o TENE will see later in the Advanced Operation section E Level O quiet 99 loud Analag 1 D Dv 99 5y dealing with Configuring and Using IP Cameras the B 00v 995v still image snapshots of any IP cameras the unit s In posu XML MIB has been configured to include in the display The screenshot shown at right is an example of a fairly typical application consisting of a SuperGoose II four IP cameras and an external Airflow Humidity Temperature AF HT Sensor unit Notice how the AF HT Sensor is broken out into a section of its own with its own graph history All external Digital Sensor Bus devices will display this way on the Sensors page each Blheesen 79 individual sensor will have its own section This E a TOTEM can cause the Sensors page to get rather long if i you have a lot of external sensors attached but it h provides you with the most comprehensive view 0 bap of everything going on in the system displaying zo MN both every sensor s current reading and a graphed history up to the present moment Note that on this page the graph ranges are not seri i ND al 000 1255678 Roe ae selectable they will always automat
65. n Fahrenheit and Celsius SOROR Sensors Sensors Supcrbioose 1I 1D U16DE5531 1UUUUUD 5uppr amp oose 1I 1D U16DE5531 1UUUUUD lemperature C 25 46 U lempe ature LERT E F Tarrperaure valt Falana Terperaure Uat FAATA Celsius Fahrenheit Note that this setting as we mentioned earlier in the Alarms section does not affect your alarm settings All it does is change the unit in which the sensor readings are displayed the WeatherGoose 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 rere maven ps by ee you should not need to change this control from its default setting of 0 however there may be times when it appears as though the WeatherGoose 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 equipment their relative prox
66. nAnNAD B F B p eralirg FJ 77 8 OF um ire Hu ui My Bee 32 Bas Level O dak 100 biigh B Level 70 Q dark 00 briah air Mow 2C scil 200 nsina ein How 21 isil 100 rn sing Bloc Level O qict loud Beo Level Orqict loud PDA Phone Bh MEE 1 O 0y 93 57 Eg uy UU Yaiby XML MID C nalb3 z UU Ur EN 9o O 0v 92 5 Pnz O 0v 92 54 Pj LEA fiv 93 57 PD Phnne XML MIB NN Lite Modern default SuperGaose IT SuperGoose II v3 1 33 i a SuperGoose II Superooose II v3 1 33 IF Acdress 192 103 123 123 A T amp cdre 102 168 123 123 i 1 Local Titre Sun 2000 M E 10 37 42 Allis well 0 alarms monitored Local ine 2cn 2022 04 05 0 07 55 Allis well O alarms monitored Alarm i ipil Ffia Phiri XM MTA Display Gencral SupertLoose It ID Ulb ES55311 LLUUD Dave l ormat ISO RANI rerr Mi np v Temacrature 77 93 OF gt E Tampz ature Unit Fahrenheit Bosco 3294 E o aval ig U dark 1UU Ercht Interral TR p Jan zw 2L 20 still 100 rushirg WARMIMGS Irtemal tamocrature pese HE B at the E The cf zst iz the ine amp eparating n z ery low arl ment where nlemal soar haal dnd dA urul evel n Niguel 33d nul PDA Phone casses intemal rempsra cre c read sicht wa mee than the s ide al BH 99 0 Ov 99 5x sat lla bans rte ace 1vpe Austere Bess 99 0 Ov 99 5x Save Changes WB enavog s v 99 Devices Unique Address Device Type Friendly Name J16D55311UUUUU dimzte
67. names on the Display page correspond to the internal sensor readings on the Sensors page WEATHERGOOSE II USER MANUAL Part 3 Advanced Operation In this section we will show you how to get the most out of your WeatherGoose II 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 vane ene which control all of the WeatherGoose II s networking functions along d with some other global configuration options not found on the previous pages 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 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 Curennt Network Conf ation c t stat nal C Le DHL for rex E enc J oe thee ai es EE abl alu ol oom m ceive dA esu se State eil ner and ra ELEC IP Ad iss prz 168 123 123 Mk ebb 55 2551 Gerace 1921681231 ra L Sere 208 67 222 222 Seconda uz Sere 208 57 222 220 Sove Changes fy srt aay lelet serene Enabled Save Changes The Configuration Network pa
68. ng to retrieve information via GET must belong to the same community Listen port for GET is the UDP port which the WeatherGoose 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 WeatherGoose 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 WeatherGoose II unit which can be used to identify it via SNMP querys later As with the Admin Info fields mentioned briefly in the QuickStart Setup portion of the manual and which will be covered again in the following section on the Configuration Admin page the WeatherGoose 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 WeatherGoose II sends SNMPvlI style TRAP events SNMPv2c style NOTIFY events or S
69. nge 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 its 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 WeatherGoose 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 pons pe pana p Admin oy 0 23 pom iar NTP primary server 192 43 244 18 192 43 244 18 NTP secondary server 129 6 15 28 129 6 15 28 Sync to NTP server period fi 800 seconds Save Changes PDA Phone XML MIB Name and Password Configuration NOTE 1 IF Accoun t curren thy has a passwor d leaving Old Password blank results in no changes to that account NOTE 2 Administrator password may be used in the Old Password field of amy account NOTE 3 If setting New Password to blank Account Name must also be blank MOTE 4 If New Password is not blank Acco
70. nly does the sysadmin get another message but our building maintenence supervisor and the HVAC technician or service company get e mails as well and we also set off an SNMP trap to our network monitor More alarm thresholds up to a maximum of 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 condition to If you attempt to add another alarm past the 200th an error message will appear stating that you re trying to set more alarms than the WeatherGoose 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 Su pen II IP Address 192 168 123 123 Local Time Wed 12 02 09 13 01 38 SuperGoose II v3 3 0 Allis well 1 alarms monitored Alarms HE SuperGoose II ID 016DE5531100000D Buzzer E mail Traps Temperature F High Trip 85 0 n Temperature C High Trip 90 0 H Save Changes Add New Alarm AF HT Sensor ID E100000269CF2314 Add New Alarm MENS wivrNvr MF PDA Phone XML MIB Alarm Behavior Unplugged Alerts Enabled arm notifications for unplugged devices Save Changes Unit Location Somey Unit Description Ad or Call 000 123 5678 or Call 512 25 All Support 1462 Copyright 2003 2009 qv 7E red order i in which they were added Keep this in mind i
71. nt configuration settings U resetall equivalent to the Reset ALL to Default Values button on the Configuration Admin page this 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 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 porti 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 v2cornotify 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
72. nt 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 WeatherGoose 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 cause the WeatherGoose 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 WeatherGoose II will continue to monitor sensors and alarm conditions during the download process 5 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
73. o be necessary to clear your browser s cache to get back into the unit after removing the user installed certificates and reverting to the unit s own self signed default certificate U Upload System Firmware From time to time firmware updates may be provided TEE to add new features or improve the WeatherGoose II s Frrware package ae RR capabilities Firmware update capabilities have been Upload New Firmware significantly improved in the WeatherGoose 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 WeatherGoose 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 WeatherGoose II s ability to recover from an interrupted or failed file transfer is greatly improved over the previous design To upload new firmware 4 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 5 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 6 Click the Upload New Firmware button
74. on 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 WeatherGoose 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 configured 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
75. operties 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 WeatherGoose II should now be accessible Note that depending on your PC s configuration and OS version it may require you to reboot for the changes to take effect 8 After you have finished configuring the WeatherGoose 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 Ab xl General Support A xl Internet Protocol TCP IP Properties General Authentication Advanced A xi General M Connection Connect using ee jue Ep 3Com EtherLink XL 10 100 PCI For C fou can get IP settings assigned automatically if your network supports inp S l l E this capability Otherwise you need to ask your network administrator Far Speed 100 0 Mbps This connection uses the following items the appropri ate IP settings iv IE Client for Microsoft Networks vi A File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks x E oz Packet Sched C Obtain an IP address automatically elnternet Protocol TCP IP m Activity sent E Received o ma ___ Poperies IP address 182 168 123 100 C d Description Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol The defau
76. or devices particularly if you have two or more of the same type of device connected to a single WeatherGoose Il These friendly names will also appear in any alert e mails sent by the unit when a sensor alarm occurs 1 Water Sensor ID 6500000381FC1711 BH 1 dry 1 sazurated S9 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 if an external Digital Sensor Bus device were to become disconnected from or stop communicating with the WeatherGoose II the unit would declare an UNPLUGGED alarm condition for that sensor and display its status as such on the Display page Unique Acklress Device Type Frieri dy Nave Unique Address Device vpa Hiendly Name OL72CES41100004C clmzte SuperGonse Il miaoe 53 nnnm hale Rupe Gimse l I Rermeve al unplucced devices Save Ch anges C20000023 B3931 Urknown AFAIT Sensor UNPLUGGED Revove al unugzed deris Save Changes There may be times in which you want to make the WeatherGoose 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 part
77. ou 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 WeatherGoose II hasn t yet refreshed the DNS entries on its own and is still trying to access those services at the old IP address U System Clock settings System Llock set to YII e Clock metrod Manual GMT v GMT to loca hh nm 05 00 The WeatherGoose II includes a hardware real time clock which keeps time even when the system loses power and which can be set to periodically resynchronize Month Cay Year llour tinute itself with an external NTP time server This clock is used epus E C E o to record time stamps for each entry in the data log and to Neria sarve E trigger time based events such as periodic system status NIP seconcary server JTRSERISEZR XML MIB 129 6 13 28 e mails Note that the graphing logging and periodic status e mail functions will not operate if the clock is not aa set The unit 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
78. own in a continuous rotation with each measurement displayed for Marium logge e me span 243C days about 3 seconds The order in which they are displayed is the same as the order in which they appear in the graph s color key 1 e using our previous example the displayed order will be Scund Level 0 StperSoose I Temperati re F AF HT Sensor Relative Hurridty AF HT Sensor Temperature F SLper3oose I Rclativo Hurrid ty 36 SLpora3ooso II Light _evel sLpersoose I Water Water Senso Temperature F SuperGoose II internal sensors Relative Humidity m internal sensors Light Level m T internal sensors Sound Level ad internal sensors Temperature F A AF HT sensor device Relative Humidity nid AF HT sensor device Water external RN Sensor device Note that due to the limits of the LCD s display the complete name of the sensor will not be displayed rather the display will show a truncated name that can fit within a single 8 character line These shortened names cannot be modified by the user u The Display Page This page allows you to change the way in which the WeatherGoose II displays various readings It is divided into three sections General Devices and Sensors The General section allows you to change some aspects of the user interface such as the way dates are displayed the unit of temperature measurement and even switch between one of four different web page styles This last feature can be particu
79. pe Gigabit ISLES i e e networks which aU tut fallback to NEES T and 10 i ee Note that the WeatherGoose II is n al ym routers sin particular should mepa of this when attempting to connect a WeatherGoose II into their Gigabit networks RESET Button This can be useful if for example you accidentally lock Sou out of the unit by ae 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 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 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 e 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 procedur
80. piece of hardware such as a remote temperature sensor an AF HT Airflow Humidity Temperature sensor a CCAT analog to digital converter or the WeatherGoose 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 WeatherGoose II s built in sensor devices 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 emaill 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 SNMP trap to our SNMP monitor at lobsterpot com l First we click the Add New Alarm button m external sensors attached lic E e button associated with LE panes the Add New Alarm and Save Changes buttons on the Alarms page are specific to each settings block
81. played XML data to a disk file In general you should choose XML file Web Page XML Only or similar as the Save As Type in the file saving dialog box it may simply attem Dp t to GISf ay 1L as though it were a web page or a text Tle 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 EE you can still Save As even nui B page a MS blank Sae make sure that ile or for the Save vill write an incorrect errr reme eg value into the XML heaves if you choose one of the XML File options which could cause the WeatherGoose 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 an XML based configuration across multiple units are the network IP settings if you have multiple units to configure each with its own staticall
82. r and HVAC 99 205tl 100shing 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 settings 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 because the temperature reading on an AF HT Sensor has already tripped one or more alarms for example it will not prevent that same AF HT Sensor from generating humidity or airflow alarms as well if either of those values exceed their thresholds One alarm condition which is unique 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
83. r slower and 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 specifically asked by IT Watchdogs technical support to enable or change any of the settings on these pages these settings should not be disturbed 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 Supertsoose II P Address 92 168 123 The first controls you will find at the top of the idee Fa opam SuperGoose I 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 All Parametors Reset ALL tu Default Yalues Heiresh DNS Cache Reset ALL to Default Values will reset the following parameters back to their factory defaults UAII 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 Temperature Unit resets to Fahrenheit Ulnternal Temperature Offset resets to 0 Ulnterface Type rese
84. rather than global For this example we should click the button highlighted here 2 Notice how a new entry has been added to the SuperGoose Il alarm table New entries are generally filled in with defaults that are well outside the range of normal sensor operations in this case our new alarm is set to trip if the temperature goes below 999 C which is an impossible condition Literally so since absolute zero the point at which all molecular activity theoretically halts occurs at Like the buttons on the Alarms SuperGoose II ID 016DE5531100000D Buzzer E mail Traps Temperature F High Trip 85 0 z vE N S p oe Save Changes Add New Alarm eE U AF HT Sensor ID E100000269CF2314 Add New Alarm PDA Phone XML MIB Alarms SuperGoose II ID 016DE5531100000D Buzzer E mail Traps Temperature F High Trip 85 0 a Temperature C Low Trip 399 0 ti Save Changes Add New Alarm vE B S D E OHOOOO OO PDA Phone XML MIB only 273 15 C This is by design as it keeps the WeatherGoose 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 particular device Notice that there s also an option to remove alarms we ll get to this in a minute For now we ll pick Temperature F to set an alarm threshold on
85. rel plug connector When the unit has power the LED next to the DC jack will light up green The WeatherGoose s DC power requirements are as follows e INPUT VOLTAGE 6 12 VDC CURRENT approx 450mA 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 WeatherGoose 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 240V AC and line frequency 50 60Hz operation all that is required is an appropriate adapter to go from a U S style plug to the appropriate non U S socket The power supply unit 1s 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 1s 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 m web site or contact our ees aan for assistance with these ae lease n ng JOWE levices c Ethernet Jack This is the WeatherGoose II s network connection using a standard RJ 45 8p8c modular plug The WeatherGoose II is compatible with 10Base T and 10 100 networks as well as with 10 100 1000 ty
86. rted configurations in place SSL Certificate and Private Key SSL Certificate and Private Key SSL Cerificate and Private Key are VALID As we saw earlier in the Config Network settings a Scc es Browse SSL Pr vata Key File Drowse Upload SSL Files Frase NNI Data WeatherGoose II can be accessed either via unsecured HTTP or over an SSL secured HTTPS connection A WeatherGoose II unit comes with a self signed SSL 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 require the use of a properly signed certificate key combination provided by a trusted 3rd party such as Verisign or Thawte the WeatherGoose 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 yo
87. spectively Note that lt port gt is optional and lt server gt may be specified either by IP address or URL Uthe mail server login credentials may be changed by adding user id password to this command Note that both parameters must be specified Uthe e mail recipients may be set by adding to n address 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 lbar com Uadditionally 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 Unet if given with no additional parameters this command displays the current network settings Typing net dhcp will enable DHCP on the unit while net ip mask gateway Will set the unit s IP Address Subnet Mask and Gateway Note that 1n the latter usage all three settings must be provided i 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 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 curre
88. t be reachable by the computer you are browsing from not by the WeatherGoose 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 WeatherGoose 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 WeatherGoose 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 1mage 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 n buttons and a test event will be broadcast to all of the e mail addresses or SNMP managers which have been configured in the above sections 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 WeatherGoose II s internals and either send PIED m them on to a configured Syslog daemon in real time or capture the
89. tation on the LCD display SuperGoose II only ayerleeeec U Veire Usar ate indus LZ x e SIE Display page C tissirtec 20 M22 234m paz SS khu 6 5 amp 305 spirtu Depey Uyi eyc Li This page allows you to control the way various items are displayed including the date format USA non USA or ISO 8601 unit of temperature measurement Farenheit or Celsius and to assign friendly names to each oer RIMDA s EM e a sensor and to the WeatherGoose II unit itself to more easily differentiate them EE 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 Config page This page provides access to all of the WeatherGoose II s system and network configuration options including the real time clock SNMP and e mail settings account password settings and camera options Reset ALL tb Uctauh Values Refresh ONS Cache You can also send test e mails and SNMP traps from here reset the entire ie unit to factory defaults upload firmware upgrades and access some self bka i pad we gw gt gs RU diagnostic syslog functions if you suspect your unit is not operating correctly Nro primacy nmm DESEE 192 13 21 VE oU EER Since ther
90. the WeatherGoose Il S internal temperature sensor in Fahrenheit REMOVE ALARM 999 0 E Temperature C OHOOOoO OO PDA Phone XML MIB i idi hanges Add New Alarm AF HT Se Add New Alarm 4 Next we choose whether we want this alarm to be a Low Trip or a High Trip The distinction is just like it sounds a Low Trip alarm will send alerts if the monitored Temperature F High Trip O0 OOOOO OO 999 0 Saige ol Low Trip L MIB Add New Alarm XM 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 and put checkmarks in the desired alarm and SNMP boxes in this case we select emaill and trap1 which email2 email4 Temperature F High Trip 90 z MMCM MP Pp aon XML MIB Add New Alarm 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 SuperGoose Il table Now whenever our temperature exceeds 85 F our sysadmin will get a message if the temperature climbs about 90 F not o
91. then reconnected while the WeatherGoose II 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 in 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 The Alarms Page SuperGSoose II s de E5 M von This is where you can set up alarm thresholds for each Loc Tina Wei 12 020 125609 Ouner oose IF v2 00 All is wel 1 alarms monitored sensor attached to your WeatherGoose Il To our customers who are familiar with our previous Alarme WeatherGoose I system you will find that there have been operons Dee ae a lot of changes Unlike the older system the adit i NUR WeatherGoose II allows you to set multiple alarm points nes mapa fsa Soca m for each sensor and selectively determine where the alerts el PERE are sent making it easy to set up an escalating series of a alerts for a single condition or send different kinds of 5 i Add New Alur alerts to the personnel or departments best suited to deal with them For example a water sensor could be Nenn Bofuur configured to alert both your system administrator and ir DI building maintenance supervisor while
92. to the New Password and New Password Again fields Both 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 unit s administrative contact information and specify its physical location if desired This information will be Corre aa displayed at the bottom of each page as shown here Admin Info sysContact Contact Phone non 123 5678 Device Location Somewhere Note that these fields are for your users convenience only the WeatherGoose II does not use the information entered here
93. 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 WeatherGoose II running i e the unit will not continue to log sensor data generate alarms or be web accessible if main power is lost U Name and Password Configuration settings Here you can set up to three levels of password protection for the WeatherGoose 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 s
94. ts to Contemporary UAII 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 John Doe placeholders In other words Reset ALL to Default Values returns your WeatherGoose II to a condition that is about as close to fresh out of the box as it 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 y
95. tw are SuperGoase I ID 017COL 5411000040 Bg 6 76 53 OF Any cameras configured here will be displayed on the sever a igFt Level 90 C dark 100 bright dep E Sensors page beneath the unit s history graph in order Flo 99 20 sll ousting Sound eval 0 Ciquet 9C loud from left to right HB 99 C Dv 99 5 BH aa C Ov QQ 5v All four pairs of IP Address and Model controls work s Iis a 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 WeatherGoose 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 supported Additional models may be supported in future firmware upgrades It is 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 i eV For this function to work correctly the IP cameras mus
96. u see an invalid status when you haven t uploaded a certificate yet and the unit 1s still operating on its internal self signed credentials this message does not indicate that the unit s own default certificate 1s 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 1t 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 als
97. uesday 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 emai15 on the right If you wish to remove a particular status report from the list check the Delete This Report checkbox for the unwanted report event and NNNM click Save Changes omm enables From E mail Address 0 To E mail Address 1 EMM To E mail Address 2 To E mail Address 3 SSS To E mail Address 4 SS To E mail Address 5 T Monitoring U SNMP settings If your facility includes SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol monitoring you can configure the WeatherGoose II to be aware of your SNMP system so ce Enabled that it can send traps when alarm conditions occur NM The WeatherGoose II s SNMP capabilities are rap conn nang significantly enhanced over the previous WeatherGoose I H system AS We hinted at earlier 1n the Alarms section you T cp IP Aur ess purl 1 EEUU can now specify up to two different servers to receive Torno 2 alarm traps and selectively direct different alarms to either or both of the specified SN
98. unt Name must not be blank Administrator Account Name IF blank all access is granted withour a password Old Password New Password New Password gain Control Account Name IF Honk Control and View Onby access is granted without passeerd ES Old Passwerd New Password New Password Again Lagain te confirm view Only Account Name IF Wank View access is granted without password Old Fasswerd New Password New Password Again again te confirm ameng Reser your pasarverd Loss of password may require dS hours to resever Save Changes Contact Name John Doe sS S Contact Email ETE dnaoalm nn cam Warning Record your password Loss of password may require 48 hours to recover Save Changes Contact Name John Doe CowactEmai liahn doeGMoo com t CS S sysContact Contact Phone TIE 23 5678 Device Location Somewhere sysLocation Device Description sysName2 Jnit Location Somewhere Unit Descriptica 0 123 5678 Admin or C3 OD Support or Call 512 257 1462 Canwrinht c o0n 2n0rca All Diete DPacar md 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 Subnet Mask and Gateway settings manually or configure
99. uperGaase Il AF HT Sensor Water Sensor I Ferrove al urpugged devices Save Changes climate C20000320E33E314 airFlow Sensor 6500003384 C1714 waterzensor Sermurs Hrendly Name Analogt 0 Analog Anang Save Changes Sensor Un Device 4ralag 1 rternal Sersors Aralag 2 rternal Sersors rahg 3 Irternal 3er nr Jnit raton nmewhere amp dnin cr Call 030 122 5678 surpat nr Call 512 257 1462 Zogyricht 2033 3 All Richts Reserved 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 182 158 123 123 Local Time Sun 05 04 09 O8 IP Address 192 158 123 123 Local Time Sun 04 05 09 08 47 35 Allis we Display Date Format USA MM DD rY standard USA format MM DD YY 2 digit month day and year separated by slashes Non USA world format DD MM YY separated by periods Display E Date Format Non USA DD MM YY 2 digit day month and year IP Address 192 168 123 123 48 45 Display Date Format 180 8601 nnrr MMW DD ISO 8601 format YYYY MM DD 4 digit year 2 digit month amp day separated by dashes The next control Temperature Unit is straightforward enough it simply allows you to change the unit of temperature measurement betwee
100. vice is disconnected from i 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 WeatherGoose 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 WeatherGoose 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 memory 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 WeatherGoose 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
101. 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 your 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 superGoose II Allis well O alarms monitorec Sensors Show Graphics Unit Location Somewhere Admin or Call 000 123 5678 Support or Cal 512 257 1462 Copyright 2003 2009 All Rights eserved PDA Phone view with sensor graphs SuperGoose II SuperGoose II v3 1 27 IP Address 192 168 123 123 ocal Time Thu 04 16 09 04 52 34 Allis well O alarms monitored Sensors SuperGoose II BB temperature F MB Relative Humidity Unit Location Somewhere Admin or Call 000 123 5678 Support or
102. work card settings back to the correct ones for your network poa Phone Web Server protaccls HTTP and HTTPS For the moment these settings cane gt HTTP Port fgg be left alone HTTPS Port 443 Telnet Service Enabled v Save Changes And that s it Your new WeatherGoose II is now ready to mount in 77 Co m your server rack and begin logging data In the following sections we i sesime sonm z will cover each of the unit s functions in more detail and show you how ee to set up alarm thresholds configure e mail and SNMP alerts sensor sm 7 options cameras and all the rest eren 5upimuun IL v2 1 42 TD n 7E nen 1 100i Bh se60 no Bs 0 ale TIP if you are using a single peppers PC to configure several RATA IER WeatherGoose II units in a TOW C gt Copyright 1985 2001 Microsoft Corp G X arp d 192 168 123 123 one after the other you may find that 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 unit s 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 opening a command prompt an
103. y assigned IP address you can open the XML file and look for the following lines at the top of the file 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 dns numO dns numl ip address 208 67 222 220 gt lt dns num1 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 impo
104. y settings are in Tools Options Advanced gt Network gt Settings in Opera the proxy settings are in Tools Preferences Advanced gt Network gt Proxy Servers s E WEATHERGOOSE II USER MANUAL Part 1 The Grand Tour This section 1s intended to help familiarize you with the WeatherGoose II unit itself This manual will cover the following models U WeatherGoose II Rack Mounted Climate Monitor SuperGoose II Rack Mounted Climate Monitor with LCD display and audible alert options Both of these units offer identical capabilities as far as number of input ports number and type of sensors supported network capabilities etc the only significant difference between them 1s that the SuperGoose II provides an LCD display that continuously displays the unit s current status and an audible alert buzzer which can be configured to sound off when one or more sensors exceeds their user set alarm thresholds and requires a person to physically turn it off via a button on the front panel Therefore this manual will use the term WeatherGoose II generically to refer to both units except where it 1s necessary to point out features specific to the SuperGoose II The WeatherGoose II units are designed with rack mounting in mind so all of its connections and sensors are easily accessible on the front panel Under most normal operating conditions there should be no need to remove the unit from the ra

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