APC NetBotz 320 Rack Appliance NBRK0320E Manuel D’Utilisation

Use the Pod Sharing task to configure your NetBotz 500 series appliance to host “virtual pods.” Pod 
Sharing, available for use only on NetBotz 500 appliances for which the BotzWare Premium Software 
Module 2.4 has been purchased, enables your NetBotz 500 to connect with and receive data directly from 
devices integrated with or connected to NetBotz 320, 420 or 500s in your network. Shared pods can be 
the integrated camera or sensor pod or externally connected pods on a NetBotz 320, 420, or 500. Pod 
Sharing enables you to use a single NetBotz 500 as a facility “host” to manage alerts from many other 
NetBotz appliances distributed throughout your network. 

Once a pod has been shared with the NetBotz 500, it functions as though it were connected directly to the 
appliance. A single NetBotz 500 can host up to 16 shared pods, total. Up to 4 of the shared pods can be 
Camera Pod 120s or CCTV Adapter pods. The shared pods can be physically connected to up to 8 target 
NetBotz appliances. 

Shared pods are configured using additional shared pod tasks that appear in the Sensor/Pod Settings 
portion of the Configuration pane. The Shared Camera Pods and Shared Sensor Pods tasks appear only 
after at least one pod of the appropriate type is being hosted by the NetBotz 500 appliance. Functionally, 
these tasks are nearly identical to the Sensor Pods and Camera Pods tasks (see “Sensor Pods” on page 97 
and “Camera Pods” on page 66 for more information).