Owner manual

Table of Contents
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SELECTING SCREENS ............................................................................................................ 144
FILE MENU ............................................................................................................................ 145
Open................................................................................................................................................ 145
Select Server ................................................................................................................................... 146
OPTIONS MENU ..................................................................................................................... 147
Font Window .................................................................................................................................. 147
IP Settings ....................................................................................................................................... 148
VIEW MENU .......................................................................................................................... 149
Layout Mode ................................................................................................................................... 149
CLIENT NORMAL RUN-TIME OPERATION ............................................................................. 150
Status Display ................................................................................................................................. 150
Control ............................................................................................................................................ 150
Multiple Tab Systems ..................................................................................................................... 150
CLIENT PROGRAM NOTES ..................................................................................................... 151
Data Loading & Cache Files ........................................................................................................... 151
Backup MCN Servers ..................................................................................................................... 151
IP Multicast Required ..................................................................................................................... 151
WINDOWS EVENT LOGGING .......................................................................................... 152
MCN CONFIG SERVER .......................................................................................................... 152
MCN SERVER 8000 .............................................................................................................. 152
CLIENTRCD .......................................................................................................................... 152
ADVANCED CONFIGURATION TOPICS – MCN CONFIG SERVER 8000 ............... 153
WORKING WITH DISPLAY TABLES ........................................................................................ 153
Display Table Properties Window .................................................................................................. 154
States Tab........................................................................................................................................ 155
Mouse Actions Tab ......................................................................................................................... 162
Actions Tab – Used for Triggered Action and TPCI Licensed Options ......................................... 163
SubDevice Tab ................................................................................................................................ 164
Watchdog Tab – used with System Performance Toolkit licensed option ...................................... 164
CONFIGURING MASTER-SUB COMPARATOR SYSTEMS......................................................... 165
Configuration Overview ................................................................................................................. 165
Virtual Comparator View ............................................................................................................... 167
IMPLEMENTING THE VIRTUAL COMPARATORS .................................................................... 169
Enable Master-Sub features ............................................................................................................ 169
Setup Network Interface, Channels, Hardware and Receiver windows .......................................... 170
Assign Display Tables and Define the SubDevices ........................................................................ 171
Design the Display Window for the Virtual Comparator ............................................................... 172
Customizing Display Tables ........................................................................................................... 173
MASTER COMPARATOR DISPLAY TABLE ............................................................................. 174
CONFIGURING MASTER-SUB COMPARATOR WITH MULTI-DEPENDENCY ............................ 183
Composite Sub Comparator Display Table .................................................................................... 185
Multiple Views of the Virtual Comparators.................................................................................... 186
Master Comparators ........................................................................................................................ 187
Multiple Views: Display Table Override ....................................................................................... 188
CONFIGURING TRIGGERED OUTPUT ACTIONS (LICENSED OPTION) ..................................... 192
Triggered Output Types .................................................................................................................. 192
Triggers ........................................................................................................................................... 196
Linking Inputs to Outputs ............................................................................................................... 198
Triggered Output Notes .................................................................................................................. 200
APPENDIX A: ERROR LOGGING DEFINITIONS ........................................................ 201
LOGGING TO A FILE .............................................................................................................. 201
Log File Location & Size ................................................................................................................ 201
LOGGING TO A PRINTER ........................................................................................................ 202
LOGGING TO THE PC SCREEN ............................................................................................... 202