Configuring Dynamic Ports; Automatic Port Mode; Special Features For Cascading A Matrix Switch - G&D ControlCenter-Compact Serie Installation Und Bedienung

Configuring dynamic ports

Configuring dynamic ports
IMPORTANT: The manual of the web application Config Panel provides detailed
information about the configuration of dynamic ports.
The different device variants of the ControlCenter-Compact series provide up to 80
dynamic ports for the connection of user modules and target modules.
NOTE: The number of ports depends on ControlCenter-Compact variant.
The following paragraphs describe the configuration of the 32 ports of a Control-
Center-Compact-32C.

Automatic port mode

By default, the matrix switch detects the user modules (
connected to the ports and auto-configures the ports.
IMPORTANT:
Mind or change the port mode of a cascade.

Special features for cascading a matrix switch

By cascading a matrix switch, you can increase the number of connectable target
computers. For this, connect further matrix switches to the configured ports:
 Connect master matrix switches to
 Connect slave matrix switches to
2 4 6 8
1 3 5 7
By default, the ports of the different variants of the ControlCenter-Compact series are
configured to connect both master and slave matrix switches:
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up ports
down ports
Dynamic Ports
10 12 14 16
9 11 13 15
CON ) or target modules (
.
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18 20 22 24
17 19 21 23
CPU )
26 28 30 32
25 27 29 31