Comtrol PortVision DX - Manual (Page 8)

PortVision DX User Guide
Features
PortVision DX supports these features on Comtrol Ethernet attached products:
•
Network settings configuration tailored for that product. The DeviceMaster can also
assign sequential or identical IP addresses to multiple DeviceMasters simultaneously.
• Ability to
upload the latest firmware (default application for the product) or bootloader.
• Ability to save and load
configuration files so that standard configuration settings can be
propagated across similar products.
• Access to Comtrol Ethernet attached product configuration web pages.
• Access to
Telnet/SSH sessions , which opens a command prompt window and
establishes a telnet connection with an IP connected device.
• Remotely
reboot any Comtrol Ethernet attached (managed) product.
• Locate
technical documentation and connector pin-out information for your Comtrol
Ethernet attached product in the Properties window.
• Provides
event logging at the device-level and application-level.
• Capability to
access your favorite applications with shortcuts from PortVision DX. By
default it provides access to the following applications:
•
Test Terminal (serial port test application)
•
Port Monitor (serial port monitoring application)
•
PuTTY (free MIT-licensed Windows 32-bit Telnet, SSH, and Rlogin client)
Locating the Latest Documentation
You can download the latest document version or access the documentation (after you have
downloaded it) in PortVision DX from the Help > Documentation menu option or from the
Properties page Documentation... menu.
To open Comtrol product documentation, you must have a pdf Reader installed on your system.
You can download the Acrobat Reader from the
Adobe web site .
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