Geist XP Series - Manual (Page 21)

GM1098 Rev 2 21 Rev Date: 7/29/2014
Rebooting the Meter
Should an Current Monitoring Meter with firmware version 1.36 or higher installed stop
responding to network traffic, it is possible to restore functionality by rebooting the meter without
removing power from the PDU it is enclosed in.
To reboot the meter, press and hold the “Pause Scroll/IP Address Reset” button on the front on
the PDU for 20 seconds. The screen will stop displaying scrolling power data in order to display
the currently configured IP address. The display will show the IP address using the following
format:
c-IP  aaa  .  bbb  .  ccc  .  ddd
The ‘’ indicates a pause and the aaa/bbb/ccc/ddd indicate a portion of the currently configured
IP address. As soon as “c-IP” is displayed, release the “Pause Scroll/IP Address Reset” button.
Press and release the “Pause Scroll/IP Address Reset” button twice while the IP address is being
displayed. The screen will read “8.8.8.8.” for a few seconds and then resume scrolling normally,
indicating a successful reboot.
Web Page
The main interface to the PDU is its web page, accessible by typing the unit’s IP address into a
web browser. The web page is the source for the most up to date measurement of each circuit.
All measurements are in Amps.
SNMP/XML
In addition to HTML based web pages, the PDU presents its data via SNMP and an XML page.
To use the PDU with SNMP Client software, download the MIB from the link on the unit’s web
page and import it into the SNMP software. Contact the client software manufacturer for
instructions specific to their software. The PDU’s SNMP community comes preset to ‘public’. To
change this, go to the ‘Configuration’ page, enter a new name in the SNMP Community box and
hit “Save Changes.” In addition SNMP traps can be utilized to monitor a user set threshold for
each circuit, alarm settings and SNMP server settings are located on the ‘Configuration’ page.
The XML page provides terse output that is easily parsed by both humans and computers and is
useful for creating scripts to download and process information off the unit automatically. The
XML page is available at http://<IP address of meter>/data.xml.
Sample uses of XML and SNMP data are provided in the Sample Usage section of this document.
Firmware Updates/Instructions
The unit firmware is field upgradeable via FTP. Firmware updates and instructions are available
at the following website.
http://www.geistglobal.com/support