
This is the simplest form of transparent bridging. Frames destined to a multicast address will forward out any interface in the bridge group. With transparent bridging chosen interfaces are connected together in a bridge group and will functionally operate as a Layer 2 switch. The second option is to configure transparent bridging. Applications such as LogMeIn ®, GoToMyPC ®, or Windows Remote Assistance have this capability and frequently have free versions. The remote user could take control of the device and launch the N-View ™ application to monitor switch information.
#Nview z215 install#
The first is to install a remote access application on a PC that is on the same network segment as the switches that are to be monitored.

There are two options in order to view N-View ™ data when there is a router between the network segment with N-Tron switches and the network on which the user is currently located. This will occur even if a multicast routing protocol such as Protocol Independent Multicast is implemented because their frames do not have an IP header. If a router is used to segment a network, under normal circumstances the N-View ™ frames will be dropped by the router. However, the frames do not map to a multicast IP address having no IP header. The frames produced by N-View ™ capable switches have a multicast destination MAC address. This data is captured by the N-View ™ OPC Server Software and can be displayed by application software running in the same Windows environment with OPC Client capability. This information includes 5 switch level data points and 41 data points per port.
#Nview z215 upgrade#
N-TRON Switches with the N-View ™ firmware upgrade (part numbers ending in –N), switches with advanced management features (part numbers ending in –A), and fully managed switches will auto-cast a small Ethernet frame periodically containing a port by port status of the switch. The N-View ™ OPC Server in combination with one or more of our industrial switches will add complete network visibility to an HMI Control and Monitoring application. They are ideally suited for connecting Ethernet enabled industrial and/or security equipment requiring mission-critical reliability. N-TRON Industrial Ethernet Switches offer outstanding performance and ease of use.

The N-TRON N-View ™ OLE for Process Control (OPC) Server Software will work with industrial standard OPC Client software and most popular Human Machine Interface (HMI) packages to provide complete remote network traffic and status monitoring for N-TRON 300, 500, 700, 900, 7000, and 9000 Series Industrial Switches with the N-View ™ Firmware.
