Creating A New Configuration - Tait TB8100 User Manual

Creating a New Configuration

Reading a Configuration
TB8100 Service Kit User's Manual
You can create a new base station configuration from scratch, modify it, and
save it as a new configuration. This means that you can define a configuration
without being connected to a base station. This is a good way to learn how to
use the configuration part of the Service Kit program. It also means that you
can do all the work of configuring before a base station is delivered. When it
arrives, you just open the configuration file and program it into the base station.
(This method completely overwrites the base station's current settings.)
To create a new configuration
1. Select File > New. The Select Template File dialog box appears.
2. Select an appropriate template (*.t8t file) from the templates in the
Template folder. This template will provide a set of default settings.
Templates can be provided by Tait or created for your system or
organization.
3. Click Open.
The title bar displays 'Untitled.t8c', indicating that you have not given the
configuration a name and saved it.
You can now click Configure to view the current configuration settings, make
any configuration changes, and save the configuration settings to a file. You can
also program a base station with these settings.
Before you can view a base station's configuration settings, you must read them.
If they were saved to a file, they also exist in the Service Kit's Configurations
folder.
Reading configuration settings overwrites any settings that the
Note:
Service Kit has in memory. If you have opened a
save and close it first.
1. Connect to the BSS and log on to the base station.
2. Click Read.
The Service Kit reads the base station's configuration information. If this
information was saved to a file, the Service Kit loads the information from
that file. This is much quicker, especially for remote connections. It checks
to make sure that the information on file is the same as the information in
the base station. If some parts of the configuration in the base station have
been updated after the file was saved, these parts are read from the base
station.
configuration
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