Specifications
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Backups
program before doing so, ZbaseW will ask you to confirm that this is really what
you want to do.
3. Return to the main window in ZbaseW and click the close button located in the
upper right corner.
Backups
Please establish good backup systems and procedures from the very beginning. If you
have spent several days setting up your pager customers, you probably do not want to do it
again. Making backup files is the only reasonable way to avoid this.
Refer to the 2000 Series Operations & Programming Manual (025-9034), Subscriber
Database section, for tips on setting up backups.
Changing ZlinkW Passwords
If you have multiple paging terminals in ZbaseW Locations, you need to be careful about
changing ZlinkW passwords (the Password field in ZbaseW Locations). (The most likely
normal reason to have multiple paging terminals set up is if you have a “hot backup”
paging terminal.)
The reason that you must follow the correct procedure when updating passwords is that
changing the password in ZbaseW or ZlinkW only changes the password on the PC
running the software. In order to avoid locking yourself out of the paging terminal, you
need to force the Series 2000 machine to update its database record for the password as
well.
♦ Updating the password on multiple paging terminals
1. Start the ZbaseW software.
2. Select the Comm tab and click on the ZlinkW button.
3. After ZlinkW establishes communications with the paging terminal and is waiting
for your action (the cursor is blinking at the “+” prompt), press the ESC key on the
PC keyboard (this establishes the correct “zlink.pw” password for this site on the
PC).
4. Select the Edit tab in the ZbaseW window and click on the Locations button.
5. In the Location window, change the password for the paging terminal to which you
are linked. Close the window by clicking the close button in the upper right corner.
6. Select the Comm tab and click on the ZlinkW button. (ZlinkW logs on with the
password from “zlink.pw”, sees that password is OK, sees that it is different than
the current password recorded in Locations, so then does “pword p” with the new
password.)