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The Configure Connections dialog appears, if you add the Integrity Monitor module to the system or change its properties, then set the focus onto the Configure outgoing connections value field and click the browse button. Use the Configure Connections dialog to specify connections to outgoing ports and to select the stations which send their NMEA positions.
The list field in the upper left part of the dialog displays all stations by their station names whose observations are synchronized by the parent Synchronizer module. The stations appear in numerical and alphabetical order.
The check boxes in front of the station names specify which stations are selected for position output. Clicking into the check box either adds (check box is checked) the station or removes it (check box is empty) from the selection.
Clicking onto a station name marks (highlights) the station for connection configuration. To mark several stations for joint connection configuration, use the standard Windows selection methods including the Shift and Ctrl keyboard keys.
By default, all stations are configured as TCP/IP servers listening on any network drive at port 4000 in multicast mode. To reconfigure the connection of a single station, click onto its station name (it is not relevant, whether its check box is selected or not) and edit the settings of the Outgoing Connection category in the right part of the dialog. Available selections for the Connection type setting are TCP/IP Server, TCP/IP Client, and NTRIP Server.
Tip - Use this method also, if you need to apply port numbers which cannot be defined by the station ID or by sequentially increasing a number. By multiple selection of stations you can, for example, first select the connection type and other settings in a first step, and then provide the port number individually to each station.
It is very easy to generate and configure the connections for all marked stations in one step by letting the system automatically create the port numbers or mountpoint names:
The connections are generated or updated according to your settings.
Specifies the connection type. One of the following connection types.
Only available, if at least one station is marked for connection configuration. Generates new connections or updates existing ones for all marked stations.
The settings for both the TCP/IP connections types are very similar. Only TCP/IP Clients need to know the address of the server to which they will connect to.
Only available for TCP/IP Clients. Enter a host name or an IP address. Default: localhost.
One of two settings for allowing the system to automatically specify the numbers for the outgoing ports. Basic information for the range of the port numbers. Default: 10000.
If selected for TCP/IP connections, the numeric station ID is added to the value specified in the Start with port number field. For example, if the basic value is 10000, the outgoing ports for two stations with the IDs 0406 and 1022 will be 10406 and 11022.
If selected, the port numbers begin with the given basic value and are increased by 1 for each consecutive station in the order they appear in the list of available stations. For example, if the basic value is 10000, the outgoing ports for the two stations with the station name 0406_AAA, followed by BBB_2000 will be 10000 and 10001.
An NTRIP Server transfers the GNSS data streams - here: the NMEA output - from the data sources to the NTRIP Caster. To configure the data output for an NTRIP Server connection, you need to provide the address and IP port of the computer the NTRIP Caster is running on. Access to this computer may be restricted, therefore you also need to provide a user name and password for authentication. For each station contributing NMEA output, the Ntrip system needs a unique identifier, the mountpoint. Similarly as with creating port numbers for the TCP/IP protocol, the system can automatically create mountpoint names. An automatically created mountpoint name optionally includes a prefix.
Only available for the NTRIP Server connection type. Enter the host domain name or the IP address of the computer the NTRIP Caster is running on. Default: localhost.
Only available for the NTRIP Server connection type. Specifies the open IP port number of the caster host.
Only available for the NTRIP Server connection type. Short user name that is used for logon, if authentication is needed.
Only available for the NTRIP Server connection type. Password that is used for logon, if authentication is needed. Case sensitive.
Only available for the NTRIP Server connection type. One of two settings for allowing the system to automatically specify the mountpoints. Specify an alphanumeric prefix that will precede the automatically created mountpoint name.
If selected for NTRIP Server connections, the numeric station ID is added to the string specified in the Mountpoint prefix field. For example, if the prefix is MP_, the mountpoints for two stations with the IDs 0406 and 2000 will be MP_0406 and MP_2000.
This option acts in the same way as the Add station ID option: If selected for NTRIP Server connections, the alphanumeric four-character station code is added to the string specified in the Mountpoint prefix field. For example, if the prefix is MP_, the mountpoints for two stations with the IDs 0406 and 2000 will be MP_0406 and MP_2000.
If selected for NTRIP Server connections, the mountpoint names begin with the given prefix, followed by a value of 0001, which is increased by 1 for each consecutive station in the order they appear in the list of available stations. For example, if the prefix is MP_, the mountpoints for the two stations with the station name 0406_AAA, followed by BBB_2000 will be MP_0000 and MP_0001.