Alien Edge Server Guide

Getting started

This guide will help you quickly get an Alien reader up and reading tags on Rifidi Edge. The supported Alien readers are the 9800, the 9900, the 8800, and the 9600. Other versions haven't been tested, but may still work.

• Start the edge server and the edge client. Connect the client to the server.
• Right click on the "Edge Server" icon in the "Edge Server View" and select "New Reader".
• Select "Alien" from the drop-down and click "Next".
• Type in the IP and port of the reader you wish to in their respective boxes. If you are using an emulated Alien, you can check this in the emulator itself. If you are connecting to a physical reader, you might need to use the discovery tool in the Alien software to find out what the IP and port are if you don't know them offhand.
• Set the username and password of the reader. The default is 'alien' and 'password', respectively.
• Select the reconnect interval (in milliseconds). If you want the Edge Server to keep trying to connect if the reader loses connection while running or if it can't connect to start with, you can set this value to what you want (in milliseconds). If you are unsure, you can just leave it at the default 500.
• Select the maximum number of times the server will try to connect to an unresponsive reader. -1 means it will keep going until it gets a connection. To turn this feature off, set it to 0.

Reading Tags

Now that the reader is set up, its time to actually connect to it and read some tags.

• First, right click on the reader icon that has appeared