15J0460B300

SUNWAY CONNECT
USER MANUAL
Issued on 10/07/2012
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Software Version 1.0

This manual is integrant and essential to the product. Carefully read the instructions contained herein
as they provide important hints for use and maintenance safety.
This device is to be used only for the purposes it has been designed to. Other uses should be
considered improper and dangerous. The Manufacturer is not responsible for possible damages caused
by improper, erroneous and irrational uses.
Elettronica Santerno is responsible for the device in its original setting.
Any changes to the structure or operating cycle of the device must be performed or authorized by
Elettronica Santerno.
Elettronica Santerno shall hold no responsibilities for any consequences caused by use of non-original
spare-parts.
Elettronica Santerno reserves the right to make any technical changes to this manual and to the
device without prior notice. If printing errors or similar are detected, the corrections will be included in
the new releases of the manual.
The information contained herein is the property of Elettronica Santerno and cannot be reproduced.
Elettronica Santerno enforces its rights on the drawings and catalogues according to the law.
All trademarks and brands mentioned in this manual belong to their respective owners.

Elettronica Santerno S.p.A.

Strada Statale Selice, 47 - 40026 Imola (BO) Italy
Tel. +39 0542 489711 - Fax +39 0542 489722
santerno.com sales@santerno.com

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. GENERAL INFORMATION ...................................................................................... 3
1.1. PRE-REQUIREMENTS ............................................................................................ 3

2. INSTALLATION ........................................................................................................ 3
2.1. EXECUTING THE SUNWAYCONNECT .................................................................. 9
2.2. USING THE SUNWAYCONNECT .......................................................................... 10

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1. GENERAL INFORMATION
This manual describes how to use the Sunway Connect service to establish safe connection to one or
multiple Sunway Bridge dataloggers running on Windows Xp/Vista/7.
The Sunway Connect exploits the open-source OpenVPN software for the connections to Elettronica
Santernos servers. Please visit http://openvpn.net/ for more details.
At the time when this manual was written, the OpenVPN version was Community edition 2.2.2.

1.1.

Pre-requirements

The Sunway Connect exploits the Internet connection for communications. The following requirements must
be met:
- A DNS server is required. It must be properly operating and easily reachable
- No communications proxies are to be present
- The TCP and UDP traffic towards Santernos servers is not to be filtered (public network
77.238.26.128/26)
Please note that the Sunway Connect uses network 10.232.0.0/17 to address the clients; therefore, conflicts
with the pre-existing networks may occur. Under no circumstances may Elettronica Santerno be considered
as responsible for these conflicts, that are client side and must be solved as such.
Because the Sunway Connect is designed to enable remote communications with one or multiple Sunway
Bridge dataloggers, these are to be properly connected to the Internet and are to be reachable by Elettronica
Santernos servers (please refer to the Sunway Bridge datalogger User Manual for details).
Elettronica Santerno reserves the right to change at any time and without prior notice the addressing
classes, the public IP addresses, the ports and tools used in the service.

2. INSTALLATION
Once you have obtained your application package, double-click to install the programme. The name of the
*.exe file follows the sunwayconnect_installer_scuxxx.exe pattern (xxx stands for the unique code of the
application package).
The installation steps to take are given below.

Double-click on the .exe file

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Confirm installation

If not already running on the system, Sunway Connect will install OpenVPN

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Press Next

Click on I agree

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Select all the available options (default)

Select the installation path

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OpenVPN will install a virtual network interface; override any warnings and install the software

OpenVPN has been installed, press Finish (a help file will be displayed if the Show Readme checkbox is
flagged)

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The SunwayConnect is now installed on your computer

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Executing the SunwayConnect

When the SunwayConnect installation is complete, the following icon will appear on the desktop:

Click on the icon to run the OpenVPN client. Please note that when running on Windows Vista/7, the
OpenVPN client is to be run with the administrator rights, otherwise the remote connection will not be
properly initialized.
Right-click on the icon and select Run as administrator and confirm (Yes).

After running the programme, the relevant icon will appear on the tray bar:

The OpenVPN icon is the double red screen

Right-click on the OpenVPN icon and press Connect to establish a connection.

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The window below will appear, showing the connection log:

First step of the connection

If the connection is successful, the icon on the tray bar will turn to green and the IP address of the
SunwayConnect client will be displayed for a while.

2.2.

Using the SunwayConnect

Once the connection to the Santerno server has been established, a physical connection to one or more
Sunway Bridge dataloggers may be established. Please refer to the User Manual of the Sunway Bridge for
any detail about the dataloggers functionality.
To reach the target Sunway Bridge, the id code assigned when commissioning the equipment is required
(idlxxx, e.g. idl123).
You can now make up the full nome, by adding the rs.sunwayportal.it suffix. For instance,
idl123.rs.sunwayportal.it.
You can use this name for any service offered by the Sunway Bridge, such as the web interface, the FTP
server, the Remote Sunway server).
For each Sunway Connect, you can define the list of the target Sunway Bridges. That list is to be formally
asked for to Elettronica Santerno and will be authorized once internally checked and approved.

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