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Intuition XG Configuration Guide
Dashboard - Intuition XG’s Local Configuration Software
Dashboard’s menus and buttons
The following tables describe the actions that are performed by Dashboard’s menu
commands and buttons:
F
ILE
MENU
•
L
OAD
D
EVICE
L
IST
: Clears the
Device List
and repopulates it using
the saved list of devices stored on disk from a previous session.
When Dashboard starts up, it automatically performs a load to populate
the device list. If the saved device list is empty, Dashboard performs a
scan to detect any new devices. Note that this is the same type of scan
action as clicking the refresh button.
•
S
AVE
D
EVICE
L
IST
: Saves all the devices already in the
Device List
to a file on the disk, so that Dashboard avoids having to detect devices
every time it is run. See also the
E
XIT
command and
“S
AVE
D
EVICE
L
IST
ON
E
XIT
” on page 5-12
.
•
E
XIT
: Closes the Dashboard application.
The first time you exit Dashboard, the
A
UTO
-S
AVE
ON
E
XIT
dialog box
appears before the application closes and asks you if you want to
automatically save the device list. Click
Y
ES
to save the device list and
close Dashboard, or
N
O
to simply close Dashboard.
During subsequent exits the Auto-Save on Exit dialog box will not
appear. If you would like to save the device list, however, you can use
the File menu’s “
S
AVE
D
EVICE
L
IST
” command, or select “
S
AVE
L
IST
ON
E
XIT
” on the
Device Discovery Tool
.
D
EVICE
MENU
•
R
EFRESH
D
EVICE
L
IST
: Updates the
Device List
by launching a
search for available Vertigo devices using the Device Discovery
settings specified in the
Device Discovery Tool
dialog box.
•
R
ESTART
D
EVICE
: Restarts the Vertigo device that is selected in the
Device List
. The device may need to be restarted to have certain
settings take effect when you are configuring the device. When these
settings are changed, Dashboard automatically prompts you with a
dialog box asking if you want to restart the device immediately when the
settings are changed. If you would rather restart the device at a later
time, refuse Dashboard’s request and use the Restart Device command
later when you are ready to restart the device.
•
M
ONITOR
D
EVICE
S
TATUS
: When selected, it will query all the devices in
the
Device List
to see if the status has changed. For example, active
devices have become inactive, or inactive devices have become active.
Note that the interval between polling can be changed using the
R
EFRESH
R
ATE
parameter on
Device Discovery Tool
.
•
I
DENTIFY
D
EVICE
O
UTPUT
: When enabled, the machine name, IP
address and command port are displayed on the Intuition XG’s output.
Since the identity information appears on the output, even if on-air, it
should only be used for diagnostics and troubleshooting tasks.