Explore Menu; Status Bar; Settings Window Display Area; Checking The System Status - American Dynamics MegaPower 3200 Administrator's Manual

To facilitate the configuring of large systems, the
copy and paste functions are also capable of
duplicating:
• Selected columns of a single row to multiple rows,
and
• Selected columns of multiple rows to areas
having the same number of rows and columns.

Explore Menu

The Explore Menu on the left side of the screen
allows you to open screens for setting up the
following functions:
•
Status – The Status function allows you to check
the status of monitors, cameras, the passive hot
switch and the error log.
•
System – The System function allows you to set
options (site, user logon, snapshots, and CPU
addresses), date and time, and port configurations.
•
Switching – The Switching function allows you to
create salvos, tours, and event timers.
•
Alarms – The Alarms function allows you to create
up to four alarm tables for use in event timers.
Through contact definitions, you can choose the
monitors where alarms will appear. Alarm messages
and Email messages also can be displayed for
review.
•
Definitions – The Definitions function allows you to
define cameras, monitors, keyboards, keyboard and
user priorities, and satellite sites.
•
Partitions – The Partitions function allows you to
associate cameras to monitors, cameras to
keyboards, keyboards to monitors, keyboards to
satellite sites, and monitors to cameras.

Status Bar

The Status Bar at the bottom of the main screen
displays information about the currently displayed
screen. It also provides progress status when saving
or transferring files.

Settings Window Display Area

The Settings window displays currently selected
screens and dialog boxes. If you see a small triangle
in the heading row for a column, you can
click on it to sort the rows according to the number or
character sequence in that column.
Note: Whenever you enter a value in a field or
checkbox in any EASY CPU screen or dialog box,
you must click in a field outside that field or checkbox
to set the value just entered.
MEGAPOWER CPU
ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE
Checking the System
Status
EASY CPU allows you to check the status of
monitors, cameras, the passive hot switch, and the
error log by selecting the status function. Click on
Status links in the Explore menu to begin.
Figure 47. Status links

Monitor Status

The Monitor Status screen displays information about
each monitor in the system. The information is for
reference only and cannot be edited.
Click on the Status – Monitor Status link in the
Explore menu to begin. The following screen
appears.
Figure 48. Monitor status screen
The Monitor Status screen provides real-time
information about the system:
• Monitor No. – Lists every monitor in the system.
• Camera No. – Displays the pseudo number of the
video input currently called to the monitor. See
the Definitions – Cameras screen on page 34 to
reference video input numbers to pseudo camera
numbers.
• Monitor State – Indicates whether the monitor is
in a Hold, Run, or Salvo state of camera display.
• Alarm State – Indicates whether an alarm is
currently displayed on the monitor.
• Camera State – Indicates whether the currently
displayed camera is locked or unlocked.
• Video State – Indicates the video loss level
detected.
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