Configuring the PC Software PC Offline Configuration
16. Configuring the PC Software
Further possibilities of use can be implemented on a workstation PC with the
Windows operating system by installing drivers and programmes. You can find the installation programmes required for this on the product CD that comes with the
OpenCom 100.
Proceed as follows to install extra software:
1. Log on under Windows NT or Windows 2000/XP as the administrator.
2. Insert the product CD.
If your PC is suitably configured, the CD will start automatically. Otherwise select Run from the Start menu. Click on the Browse button to look for the program “cd_start.exe” on the CD. Confirm this with Open and OK.
3. Select the required option from the start interface. Follow the program instructions.
Further instructions for various options that are available are given below.
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PC Offline Configuration
The offline configurator is a reduced system software that is executable under the operating systems Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows XP. With the offline configurator it is possible to create system configurations for various TCsystem types – without a connection to the live system. You configure a virtual system and later, aided by the data backup, transfer the configuration to the running system.
Installing the offline configurator
1. Display the product CD contents in Windows Explorer. Search the “\OFC\” installation directory for the offline configurator.
2. Start the StartCenter installation program by double-clicking on “Setup.exe”.
Following the installation assistant’s instructions. Select the appropriate installation directory or apply the default.
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3. On the product CD, in the offline configurator installation directory, you will find ZIP archives for various TC-system types. Copy the desired ZIP archives to the installation directory.
4. End the installation with a function test. With a double-click on the newly created desktop icon, start the StartCenter program. Select from the folddown selection the desired TC-system type. Available offline configurators are now displayed as symbols. Double-click on a configurator symbol and select from the dialogue Start with Factory settings. The offline configurator starts with an command window. Open a Web browser and in the address line enter:
“http://localhost/”. Confirm with enter.
5. Configure the virtual system as usual. Using the data backup, you can save the configuration.
6. Activate the command window. End the offline configurator with the window’s menu command Close.
To maintain multiple different installations, you can copy further offline configurators to new directories of your hard-drive. Change between the directories by selecting the command Extras: Setup in the StartCenter program. Select the corresponding Working Directory in the Setup dialogue. You will find further explanations in the StartCenter online help.
Notes
■ The ITC-system serial number to which the configuration is later to be transferred is queried when starting the offline configurator. You will recognise this by the caution symbol in the left symbol-bar. Click on this symbol. Enter the serial number into the input field that opens.
The serial number is required to activate program packages requiring licenses in the offline configurator (in menu SYS Configuration: Licenses). The serial number can be obtained for the ITC-system’s Configurator in the System Info:
Versions menu.
■ If there is a firewall installed on the workstation computer, then a warning will be displayed. This warning shows that the computer is now ready-to-receiver requests for the offline configurator’s web-server service. You must permit the web-server service, for example by activating the option For this program do
not display this notification again.
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