Setting Preferences. Imagine communications Configuration utility

Creating a RouterMapper Database

Note

Detailed instructions on setting up a remote dial-up connection are provided in “Remote

Dial-Up,” starting on page 25 of your RouterMapper

Configuration Utility manual. A copy of the manual is available on your setup disk.

• If you have a direct serial connection type, you can change baud rate or comm port settings.

• If you have a remote dial-up connection type, you can set the baud rate for your modem, the remote router telephone number, automatic redialing properties, tone or pulse dialing mode, and your modem initialization string.

• If you have a TCP/IP connection type, you can set the IP address connections and give instructions on what to do if a current IP address connection fails.

• If your PC is not connected to a routing system, but you want to see how

RouterWorks software will operate with a routing system, choose Demo

Mode to simulate the presence of a router and will allow the

RouterWorks software to be operated normally.

Setting Preferences

The Preferences dialog box allows you to control how particular aspects of

RouterMapper information is displayed. To access the Preferences dialog box:

1.

From the RouterMapper main window, click Preferences at the

RouterMapper menu bar.

2.

Choose one of these selections:

• Editor (allows you to display certain kinds of helpful information when you edit router databases or panel settings)

• Panel Defaults (provides the default button definition for all panels’ two auxiliary buttons)

• Soft Panel Fonts (allows you to select the fonts to use on soft panel and hard panel displays)

• Hard Panel Fonts (allows you to select the fonts to use on soft panel and hard panel displays)

• Button Color (allows you to change panel button background color and panel button text color; and to select color printing for key caps)

• Zero-Based Export (allows you to controls whether you export a

RouterMapper database with zero-based or one-based numbers)

Creating a RouterMapper Database

1.

Poll the system for frames, control panels, and master controllers; discover them; or add them manually (see “Polling the Control System,” starting on page 50; “Discovering Devices,” starting on page 58, and “Adding Devices

Manually,” starting on page 60 of your RouterMapper Configuration Utility manual).

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