Made easy management

Network Configuration – Made Easy

One of Westermo’s clear mission statements is Robust Industrial Data Communications `Made Easy’ which is why a huge effort has been made to make WeOS easy to use. Any product with WeOS becomes a state of the art Layer2 switch which means that it actually needs no configuration out of the box to allow a simple network to be created.

The next level of configuration is our auto-discovery IP-Config tool that allows the IP address, subnet mask and gateway address to be Configured. Once the IP address is set then the easy to use web interface allows you to set up many of the most common configurations in just a few minutes. An FRNT ring, VLANs or a basic firewall are only a few clicks away.

The operating system is capable of being fine-tuned for the most rigorous applications. This tuning is achieved using the WeOS Command Line Interface (CLI), which has been developed to be as intuitive as possible.

Building up a live configuration is often difficult in complex networking devices where a reboot is often necessary to test a new function. WeOS has been developed to allow `running changes’ which means that fine-tuning can be achieved quickly and with the option to revert back to the start point at any time. Once the optimum solution is proved, this can be saved as the boot configuration so that when ever the unit is re-powered it will revert to those settings.

WeOS is designed to form part of significant multi-vendor networks that will often need to be centrally managed. WeOS fully supports SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol), hence providing yet another way for it to be configured and monitored.