Installation manual

MONGOOSE

Installation Manual

Save the Final Conﬁguration File.

We already delivered our lecture on the beneﬁts of saving your conﬁguration to a backup ﬁle – so we

won’t do that again. Instead, we’ll just tell you how to do it.

To save a Mongoose conﬁguration to a ﬁle:

1. In the Mongoose Tracker toolbar, click Save As.

Note: If the ﬁle has already been saved and you are merely saving a change to it, you can click

Save instead of Save As.

2. In the File Name text box, browse for or type the name you want for the ﬁle. e default ﬁle

extension is .mgs.

3. Click Save. e ﬁle name appears in the toolbar, as shown below:

Creating a Veriﬁcation Conﬁguration

Even if you do not have a pre-deﬁned conﬁguration ﬁle or the necessary information to create one for

your system, you can still test that the installed devices can send and receive audio signals. You do so by

using the Mongoose Tracker to create a very simple veriﬁcation conﬁguration to perform this testing. is

procedure assumes that you have installed and connected all the RADs and Mongoose devices and have

veriﬁed that the devices are communicating successfully (by viewing their status indicators.)

To perform a simple veriﬁcation of audio signal receipt and transmission:

1. Open the Mongoose Tracker software.

2. Open the Mongoose you want to test. Because you have not loaded a conﬁguration ﬁle into the

device but you have installed the RADs, the software reports conﬁguration errors. In most cases,

these will be model mismatch errors. In other words, the Mongoose is reporting that it is not

conﬁgured for the RADs it detects on its ports.

3. To quickly ﬁx the model mismatch problems, click Match (in the toolbar). is causes the Mongoose

to conﬁgure its RAD ports to match the model numbers it detects.

Caution: If you have installed a pre-deﬁned conﬁguration ﬁle, you would rarely use this

functionality. e model mismatch message serves as an alert that either a RAD was installed

or conﬁgured incorrectly. Clicking Match erases this alert, obscuring the fact that a mistake was

made. In this case, however, when you’re simply creating a conﬁguration to test the transmission of

audio signals, the Match functionality makes your job much easier! We do recommend, however,

that you check your RAD installation against your drawings to conﬁrm that they are in the correct

locations. In addition, you can use the Locate functionality (see "Locating a Hardware Device" on

page 29) for further veriﬁcation.