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SITE MANAGEMENT
Local Site Support ARENA supports the connection to up to 4 local sites.
Remote Site Support ARENA supports remote sites, which are connected through iLON 10 or through
another remote ARENA. That ARENA is called Supervisor ARENA.
Ranger supports remote sites, which are connected through iLON 10 only.
iLON 10 Sites via LAN ARENA supports remote sites, which are connected through iLON 10. Only one
ARENA can be connected at the same time to one iLON 10.
If a connection between an ARENA and an iLON is established, a second ARENA
cannot connect to the iLON 10. This is indicated by a message.
ARENA / ARENA via Modem
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Connection is only possible if an incoming connection is defined beforehand
manually in Windows.
Example:
ARENA A -> ARENA B connection via modem
On ARENA A, configure a remote ARENA B. On ARENA B do nothing.
Expectation is that the user does not need to configure on Arena B explicitly an
incoming connection.
Connection Types Arena can establish a remote connection either via modem dialing or LAN
connection. ARENA differentiates between these two connection types. Depending
on the infrastructure, ARENA supports opened connections in parallel.
• Modem connection
After ARENA restart, ARENA will not automatically establish a connection to a
remote site.
• LAN connection
After ARENA restart, ARENA will automatically establish a connection to all
reachable remote sites
CAUTION
Two ARENAs are only allowed to be connected via one connection type,
LAN or modem. That is, it is not allowed to connect two ARENAs to each
other in multiple ways, for example, via LAN and modem.
ARENA 1
ARENA 2
ARENA 3
Modem
LAN
LAN
Connect Sites You can manually connect to a site. The manual connection can be established via
right-click on the site in the site tree.
Disconnect Sites You can manually disconnect ARENA from a local or remote site and disconnect all
local or remote connections.
Automatic Disconnection of Modem Sites
ARENA supports an automatic disconnect mechanism for sites connect via modem:
After a definable time, ARENA pops up a dialog that asks you if you want to remain
connected. You can decide whether to “remain connected for another X minutes” or
to disconnect. X is the predefined connection time, which is changeable in the
popup dialog. If you do not react for a defined reaction time (e.g. 60 s), the
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Not supported in ARENA 2.0