Hardware manual

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Chapter 1 About this guide .................................................................................... 1
Scope ........................................................................................................................................................ 2
Documentation conventions ..................................................................................................................... 2
Manual set ................................................................................................................................................ 3
Software, firmware and manual versions ................................................................................................. 4
Sending feedback ..................................................................................................................................... 4
Chapter 2 Safety Instructions and safety warnings ............................................. 5
Multilingual Warnings and Warning Definitions ........................................................................................ 6
Important Safety Instructions .................................................................................................................... 8
Safety Warnings ..................................................................................................................................... 10
Chapter 3 Before you start ................................................................................... 13
Important network considerations .......................................................................................................... 14
Power outage and surge protection ....................................................................................................... 14
Thank You! ............................................................................................................................................. 14
Warranty Registration ............................................................................................................................. 14
What's in the box? .................................................................................................................................. 14
Chapter 4 Introduction to NION .......................................................................... 17
Description .............................................................................................................................................. 18
Features.................................................................................................................................................. 18
Applications ............................................................................................................................................ 19
Cards ...................................................................................................................................................... 20
Front Panel ............................................................................................................................................. 22
Rear panel .............................................................................................................................................. 23
Chapter 5 Setting up the NION ............................................................................ 25
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 26
Configuration .......................................................................................................................................... 27
Updating the firmware ............................................................................................................................ 28
Using the front panel .............................................................................................................................. 28
Using the web interface .......................................................................................................................... 37
Chapter 6 Using XDAB clusters with VLANs and CobraNet .............................. 47
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 48
Important concepts ................................................................................................................................. 48
Use cases ............................................................................................................................................... 49
Setting conductor and XDAB priority in NWare ...................................................................................... 56
Further examples .................................................................................................................................... 59
Appendix A Troubleshooting ............................................................................... 61
Cannot access NION using IP address or IP address is unknown ........................................................ 62
Front panel LED indicators ..................................................................................................................... 63
Including debug messages in the log ..................................................................................................... 65
HF2 errors............................................................................................................................................... 66
Low voltage warning ............................................................................................................................... 70
NION locking up or rebooting spuriously ................................................................................................ 71
Appendix B Connector ports ............................................................................... 73
Audio connections .................................................................................................................................. 74
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