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he VistaMax Control Center (VMCC) is
the software program station engineers use to cre-
ate and maintain the configuration files needed
by all VistaMax community devices—including
the BMX
digital console.
Chapter 4 covers console configuration, basic
VMCC operations and standard commands for
session and macro files. This appendix presents
addition details on using VMCC and using
Notepad® to edit session and macro files. An er-
rata section on VMCC covers program use notes
and an application section presents information
on setting up command entries for specific tasks
in session and macro files.
The revision D release of the BMX
digital CD-
ROM (Harris # 99-5000) introduced two major
changes to the console’s operating system. The first
is that all VistaMax devices now run release 4.2 of
the BMX
digital Server operating system. The sec-
ond is that two Harris-proprietary software pro-
grams: VistaMax Community Monitor (CM) and
VistaMax Control Center (VMCC) are now used
to create, maintain and properly distribute con-
figuration files for all VistaMax community devices.
Previously, configuration files were created manu-
ally using a text-only editor and were distributed
to all the community members by hand. See chap-
ter 4 for details on installing these files. It should
be noted that session and macro files must still be
edited using Notepad®.
VMCC, Session
and Macro Files
VMCC FILE MAINTENANCE
The VMCC application (icon:
) not only
simplifies rack configuration, it also allows one-
stop file maintenance for every VistaMax commu-
nity member—any RMX
digital or BMXdigital
console, VistaMax rack or VistaMax edge device.
After VMCC distributes the setup and config files
to each community device, a
PROVISIONED.HASH
file is written into the storage card folder. The next
time Normal Download is selected to distribute
updated files, VMCC reads the hash file to identify
which files match the newly provisioned files so
they are not re-downloaded and so only those files
with changes are downloaded.
If the hash file is not found (as in the first time
VMCC downloads files), then VMCC will down-
load all files, which is equivalent to selecting Force
Download. This always causes consoles or racks
to restart since the
nqx.ini
file is replaced.
COMMUNITY MONITOR (CM)
CM (tray icon:
) is not only a valuable tool
for setting up a VistaMax system, it’s also helpful
for troubleshooting and analyzing a VistaMax sys-
tem since it sees all VistaMax devices connected
to the network—even those with IP addresses out-
side the network’s assigned subnet.
IP addressing problems can occur if a new con-
sole is added to a system that’s not using the de-
fault IP addressing scheme (as presented on page
4-10). A factory-fresh console has an IP address
of 192.168.100.22 but, if the system is set for IP
addresses using another subnet (say 137.237.
207.xxx) then the new console will not be seen by
the setup computer. Another way this might hap-
pen is if the IP address entered into VMCC had a
