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Mass Configuration: Device Settings

InfraStruXure Central 4.0 User’s Reference 203

Pod Sharing

Use the Pod Sharing task to configure NetBotz 500 devices to host “virtual pods.” Pod Sharing, available

for use only with NetBotz 500 devices for which the Premium Software Module has been purchased,

enables your NetBotz 500 to connect with and receive data directly from devices integrated with or

connected to other NetBotz 320, 420 or 500 devices in your network. Shared pods can be the integrated

camera or sensor pod or externally connected pods on a NetBotz 320, 420, or 500. Pod Sharing enables

you to use a single NetBotz 500 as a facility “host” to manage alerts from many other NetBotz devices

distributed throughout your network. Once a pod has been shared with the NetBotz 500, it functions as

though it were connected directly to the device. A single NetBotz 500 can host up to 16 shared pods,

total. Up to 4 of the shared pods can be Camera Pod 120s or CCTV Adapter pods. The shared pods can be

physically connected to up to 8 target NetBotz devices.

Pod Sharing also enables you to use NetBotz 500 devices to receive data from legacy NetBotz devices

running BotzWare 1.x (including RackBotz and WallBotz 300, 303, 310, 400, and 410 devices). Once a

NetBotz 500 is configured to access these legacy models they are treated exactly like other shared pods or

devices, providing alert and sensor data exactly as if they were directly connected to the NetBotz 500.

To use the Pod Sharing task:

1. Launch the Pod Sharing task. In addition to the IP address/hostname and status of each selected

device, the Pod Sharing task's device selection window also includes one task-specific information

column: Shared Pod Count, which displays the number of shared pods that have been defined for

each listed device.

2. To continue, select a device from the device selection window and click Edit.

3. The Remote Pod Sharing Configuration window opens. Click on Add Remote Device. The

Note

• The Pod Sharing task can be run only on one device at a time.

• Only the NetBotz 500 that will host remote pods requires the Premium Software

Module. Remote devices to which pods are physically connected and then shared with

the NetBotz 500 device do not require the Premium Software Module.

• Pods that are not physically connected to a device do not count against the total number

of USB-connected devices allowed for the device model (NetBotz 420s support 1

additional camera pod and up to 4 additional non-camera pods; NetBotz 500s support up

to 4 camera pods and up to 17 non-camera pods).

• Framerate from remotely hosted camera pods is limited to 10 frames per second.

• The camera image resolution available from a hosted camera pod is determined by the

maximum resolution available to the device to which the pod is physically connected.

For example, if you are remotely sharing a Camera Pod 120 that is connected to a

NetBotz 500, the maximum resolution available will be 1280x1024. However, if the

Camera Pod 120 is shared from a NetBotz 420 the maximum available resolution will

640x480.

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