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• Power Negotiation - When the Power Negotiation option is set as enabled, and committed, the
FX7500 and FX9600 readers start power negotiation. Power negotiation occurs only if the reader is
powered from a switch that is capable of LLDP based power negotiation. If the reader is powered
from a source that does not support LLDP, power negotiation can still be enabled and disabled, but
the reader does not carry out any power negotiation.
The moment the power source is switched to an LLDP enabled switch, power negotiation occurs at
startup if it was enabled from the UI previously.
After power negotiation is enabled, and committed, it takes approximately 2 to 5 minutes to reach
the PoE+ level. This is the time taken for LLDP packet exchange between the reader and the switch
for power negotiation.
These settings only affect the display. Use Commit/Discard on page 88 to save the changes.
Read Points
Click Read points in the selection menu to configure the read point settings and view the current read
points state.
Figure 35 Configure Read Points
Antenna Status
• Status buttons - indicate the status of the reader read points:
• Green: Connected - Read point is enabled and an antenna is connected to the port.
• Red: Not connected - Read point is enabled, but no antenna is connected to the port.
• Yellow: User disabled - The user disabled the read point.
Click a read point’s status button to view and/or change the selected antenna configuration.
• Refresh Interval - Sets the refresh interval (in seconds) to update the read point status. The
minimum value is 10 seconds and the maximum value allowed is 86,400 seconds. Input a new
value and click
Change to set a new interval.
• Maintenance mode - Places the reader in maintenance mode which intermittently drives PWR, ACT,
and STAT LEDs to easily locate the reader. Also enables quick reporting of antenna status by
setting the refresh interval to 2 seconds. Note that you can not modify the refresh interval in this
mode.