Log-In to TLServer
When you execute any i-TRiLOGI command under the "Controller" menu for the first time, you will always be presented with the Username/Password dialog box as shown below:
ID (Hex)
Since a TLServer can be connected to as many as 256 M-series/F-Series PLCs, each PLC must have a unique ID for identification. You will need to enter the matching PLC's ID here for successful communication with the PLC. The number entered should be in hexadecimal, hence the range of acceptable numbers is from 00 to FF.
If there is ONLY ONE PLC attached to TLServer and you are not sure of its ID, you can ask i-TRiLOGI to detect its ID by clicking on the "Detect ID" button. This method however will not work if there are more than one PLC being connected to the TLServer since all connected PLCs will attempt to send their IDs simultaneously and therefore TLServer will receive garbled data.
Username & Password
You must have a username and password defined in TLServer and the same username/password pair must be correctly entered here for authentication.
TLServer's IP Address: Port
If you run the TL6 as a local application on your PC, you will need to enter the TLServer's IP Address: Port. However, when running the TL6 as an applet off your Internet browser, this field is not editable and it will automatically be filled with the IP Address of the TLServer from which the applet was loaded. This is because the Java Security model dictates that a Java applet can only communicate with the server from which it was loaded (also known as "applet can only phone home!") . Hence for applet, you will not be allowed to switch to another TLServer of a different IP address.
Therefore, if TL6 is run as an application it is very powerful because it is able to program/control/monitor any M-series/F-Series PLCs in any part of the world. All you need is just an IP Address and the Port number of the TLServer as well as the authorized username and password to gain access to the PLC.
If the TLServer and the i-TRiLOGI programs are both running on the same PC, then you should use the default "Local Host- 127.0.0.1:9080) which always works regardless of whether your PC is connected to any network. However, if the TLServer is running on a different PC, then all you need to program/control the remote PLC is to enter the IP address and port number of the TLServer in this field and you are in instant control of the remote PLC(s)!
i-TRiLOGI Application vs Applet
If i-TRiLOGI is running as an "Application" on local PC, then you will be prompted to enter the HTTP Proxy Server IP Address and Port number (e.g. 165.23.345.1:8080) . You can ask your network adminstrator for the proxy server's address or check it out from your Netscape or IE5's option menu.
However, if you run i-TRiLOGI as an applet using the browser, then you will not be prompted to entser the HTTP proxy's IP Address. This is because the i-TRiLOGI applet makes use of the browser itself to perform the HTTP tunnelling. Due to Java Security model, Applet will not be able to connect to the client's network proxy server directly. It can only use the browser's built-in proxy settings to do the job. (The browser's built-in proxy settings must have been correct to access TLServer via proxy server, otherwise you would not have been able to run i-TRiLOGI as an applet from that TLServer in the first place!).
