conditions to display smart serial accepted ip address

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Found this situation.

A driver with an http connection and a smart-serial connection. Will not show the Accepted IP address field.

if the connections are swapped.

are there some conditions required for the Accepted IP address field to show on the element configuration?

Julio Riambau [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Selected answer as best 3rd December 2021

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There should be only 2 prerequisites to be able to configure accepted IP addresses in the UI:

  1. The connection is of type smart-serial
  2. The smart-serial connection is configured as a listening server. This can be achieved by configuring the IP address / host field as one of the following values:
    1. localhost
    2. 127.0.0.1
    3. The DNS name of the DataMiner server
    4. any (unlike the other values, will listen on all NICs)
    5. The IP address assigned to one of the NICs

But it does look like there's a bug in the UI and as a result only shows it for primary connections. The fact that it shows it for the HTTP connection is also wrong as these values will not be taken into account. I suggest to create a task on Collaboration to let the UX team look into this.

Julio Riambau [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Selected answer as best 3rd December 2021
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DataMiner Help indeed lists conditions to show the accepted IP addresses :

https://help.dataminer.services/dataminer/#t=DataMinerUserGuide%2Fpart_2%2Felements%2FAdding_and_deleting_elements.htm&rhsearch=accepted&rhhlterm=accepted&rhsyns=%20

This functionality is only available if AllowedIPAddresses.Disabled is set to “false” in the user settings of the smart-serial connection in the protocol.

Did you set the AllowedIPAddresses.Disabled to false on the Smart-Serial connection - also when you swapped it?

Julio Riambau [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Posted new comment 3rd December 2021
Julio Riambau [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] commented

Thank you very much for your help. also tried using the Connections tag.
It allows to define AllowedIPAddresses. The result on the element config is similar to the one of swapping the connections. Accepted IP address will show on both the HTTP and the smart-serial connections. i have not used the connections tag before. would it be the solution for a case like this one? noticed this from DIS – ‘Protocol/Connections’ should only be used in case one of the rare features only available in this syntax is needed.

https://help.dataminer.services/development/#t=DataMinerDevelopmentLibrary_Customerpart1PDGPDGConnectionsConfiguring_a_smart-serial_connection_as_a_server.htm&rhsearch=AllowedIPAddresses&rhhlterm=AllowedIPAddresses&rhsyns=