User`s guide

NV5100MC Master Control • MasterDiag User’s Guide 11
2. MasterDiag Basics
Menus
4List Area
MasterDiag does not display the list area in serial mode.
The list area displays a list of MCPMs (including MCEs). The list is expandable and collapsible
as if it were tree-structured. (The list is sometimes called a master control tree.) The list
includes IP addresses and names for MCPMs.
S Be aware that the MCPM list contains IP addresses by which MasterDiag attempts to com-
municate with MCPMs. The list can include entries for MCPMs that do not exist or that
have been taken out of service.
S When you launch MasterDiag for the first time, the list will be empty unless someone has
populated it.
If you highlight an IP address in the list, or the name of an MCPM, it becomes the “current” or
“default” address. If the IP address corresponds to an actual MCPM, your commands and the
settings you make apply to the device at that specific IP address until you select another
address.
You can adjust the width of the list area by dragging its right-hand border. You can add, rename,
and delete entries in the list area.
In Ethernet Mode, MasterDiag displays, at the top of each page, the IP address a nd type of the
MCPM you have selected.
Menus
This is the basic Menu Bar:
Each menu is described in the sections following.
•File Menu
•Communications Menu
•Tools Menu
•Advanced Menu
•Help M enu
File Menu
The ‘File’ menu has no commands except ‘Exit’: (There are no files to open or save.)
Click ‘Exit’ to quit MasterDiag. You can also press Alt-F4 or click the
×
in the title bar to quit
MasterDiag.