Manual > Server Creation Guide > Interface Edition > Panel-Interface

What is Panel-Interface?

Panel-Interface is a communication interface used when using the FA-Server client tool "FA-Client". FA-Client has report and trend graph screens, and can connect to FA-Server to display log data and daily report summary data.

If you do not use FA-Client, there is no need to configure Panel-Interface.

Basic Settings

In the "Basic Settings" of Panel-Interface, you can set the following items.

(Panel-Interface/Basic Settings tab)

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Setting items

explanation

Enable the interface

Enables or disables Panel-Interface.

IP address

This is the IP address of FA-Server. If omitted, the default IP address will be applied. If there are multiple network adapters on the PC running FA-Server and FA-Client connects to one of the IP addresses, set it as follows.

[IP address 1] ; [IP address 2]

* Separate with a semicolon (;) and set the second and subsequent IP addresses.

For example, when connecting to a single FA-Server from multiple network segments, you can set it as follows.

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You can set up to five IP addresses.

The "Variables" button to the right of the IP address is used to specify environment variables for the IP address. For details, see "Environment Variables".

Port number

The default port is set to 6001. Change it if there is an application using the same port or if it is necessary to change it for security reasons.

Timeout period

This is the timeout period for a connection request from FA-Server to FA-Client. If the communication bandwidth is narrow, set the number of seconds to a longer period.

Setting login information

In the "Login Information" of Panel-Interface, login information such as user information and group definitions is registered. Whenever a connection is made from FA-Client to FA-Server, a login is performed. If this login fails, the connection is canceled and FA-Client is unable to obtain information from FA-Server.

If you are not using FA-Client, you do not need to set up login information. For details on how to set up when using FA-Client, please refer to "Server Settings" in the Client Settings Guide.

(Panel-Interface / Login Information tab / Login Settings)

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Public Folder Settings

The following items can be set in the "Public Folder" of Panel-Interface. The public folder settings are set when using FA-Client.

For details, please refer to "Server Settings" in the Client Settings Guide.

(Panel-Interface/Public Folder tab)

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When you click the Add or Change button, the following dialog box will be displayed.

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Setting items	explanation
Enable Public Folders	Enables or disables the public folder function.
Public Folder Name	Specify the public folder name.
Public Folder	Specify the path of the public folder. In addition to the absolute path, you can also specify a relative path. If you specify a relative path, the folder will be referenced starting from the root folder defined in the application's system settings (for example, if you specify "server\config" as the path of the public folder, it will be referenced as (root folder)\server\config).
Duplex processing settings	Set this if you are using a duplicated server configuration. Server duplication is described in "Server duplication operation".
Allow only reading of files	Check this box if you do not want the files in the public folder to be updated from the client.

Precautions when running FA-Server and FA-Client on one PC

When running FA-Server and FA-Client on the same PC, communication between FA-Server and FA-Client may become impossible if the LAN cable is disconnected from the PC. This occurs when the media detection function of the Windows OS detects that the IP address set for the network adapter is different from the local IP address when the LAN cable is disconnected from the PC.127.0.0.1" automatically. Also, FA-Server and FA-Client communicate using the IP address set in the network adapter at startup, so they will not be able to keep up if the IP address changes during operation.

To avoid this issue, in the IP address settings of Panel-Interface, register both the IP address to be used for communication (for example, "192.168.1.1") and the local IP address "127.0.0.1", separated by a semicolon.

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Also, set PSNode in the FA-Client client configuration file (FAClient.txt) to “127.0.0.1”.

PSNode=127.0.0.1

Setting Panel-Interface

Setting Panel-Interface