American International Electric SEG-M - Manual (Page 17)

Section 4: SEG Configuration
The SEG is a device created for the purpose of allowing data to be exported from your PC over a LAN/WAN to either Secured Series
Controllers or the prox.pad Plus. A minimal amount of setup must be performed on the SEG in order for it to be properly addressed on
the LAN.
There are 3 methods that can be used to configure the IP Address of the SEG:
1. Dynamic IP Addressing via DHCP server with an IP that can change (this is the recommended method but it requires SEG
firmware v1.30 or greater)
2. Dynamic IP Addressing via DHCP server with non-expiring lease (can be performed on any version of SEG)
3. Static IP Address (can be performed on any version of SEG)
NOTE: If your SEG has a firmware version of 1.30 or higher and there is a DHCP server on the network, which is typical, then it is
recommended that you refer to the section of this manual named Setting up a SEG that is assigned an IP Address by DHCP server.
4.1 Dynamic IP Address via DHCP server, IP Address in SEG can change
This is the recommended method but it requires SEG v1.30 or greater firmware. The firmware label is located on top of the SEG.
NOTE: The SEG units that shipped prior to v1.30 did not have a version label on them. If the SEG you are setting up does not have a
version label, then the firmware is prior to v1.30 and you cannot use this method and you MUST use one of the other 2 methods to
assign an IP Address to that particular SEG.
Using this method, no manual setup of the SEG IP Address via the SEG serial port is required.
If you are installing more than one SEG on your LAN you just need to write down the 12 digit MAC Address located on the label of
the SEG and write down which controller group that SEG is connected to for reference. For example:
MAC Address Description
00-20-4A-52-F2-84 Building 1, Floor 2, HubMaxII
00-20-4A-52-8B-89 Building 1, Floor 7, HubMaxII
00-20-4A-52-F4-12 Building 2, Floor 1, prox.pad plus
1. Press the button on the SEG setup screen (Fig. 1) labeled Search for SEG Devices to start the process.
2. A warning will be displayed (Fig. 2) reminding you what the firmware requirements are. Select Yes to continue the search.
3. In approximately 5-10 seconds a grid will be filled with any SEG devices that were found (Fig. 3) and a message will be
displayed asking you to select a SEG in the grid (Fig. 4).
4. If you are only installing one SEG and it was found during the search simply select the item in the grid. If you have installed
more than one SEG then select the SEG that has the same MAC Address as the SEG you are setting up for this site.
5. Now a message will be displayed asking you to generate a new Security Key (Fig. 5)
6. If you don't want to set the Security Key at this time then setup is complete, select save to Save and Close the Site Settings
screen.
7. If you want to change the Security Key, then select the button labeled 'Generate Random Security Key.
8. A message will then tell you to select the button labeled 'Set the Above Security Key into the SEG. (Fig. 6). Select that button
to send the new Security Key to the selected SEG.
9. Setup Complete
Now that the MAC address is known by Hub Manager Professional, if the DHCP server were to assign a new IP Address to this
particular SEG, then the next time you attempt to communicate with any of the controllers connected to this SEG, Hub Manager
Professional will retrieve the new IP Address from the SEG and will automatically save this new IP address into the Site Settings. This
saves you the time needed to reconfigure the IP Address in the Site settings screen.
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