Installation and Operation Guide

TS-3000i Web Clock Installation & Operation Guide 6-1
Chapter 6: TS-3000i and ATVS Software
It may be necessary to utilize the Amano Time Validation System (ATVS)
Enterprise software in conjunction with the TS-3000i TimeSync Web
clocks to provide centralized reporting and connection to the Amano
TS-3000i clock. The following procedures only describe how to discover
and import TS-3000i clocks into ATVS. Please consult the ATVS
Installation and Operation Guide for complete details on ATVS
Enterprise software installation and/or operation.
Note – Please disregard this chapter if you do not have ATVS
software.
Introduction – What is ATVS?
The Amano Time Validation System (ATVS) Enterprise software works in
conjunction with the PIX-3000xN, PIX-3000xNT, and TS-3000i Time
Clocks. This software and time clock combination may communicate by
way of TCP/IP protocol, or in the case of the PIX-3000xN by Serial
RS485 connection.
The ATVS Enterprise software runs on a Windows NT® 4.0 (or later)
platform. This enables the use of standard network management
software and backup procedures to manage, maintain, and monitor the
software host.
The devices connected to the ATVS Host Server are synchronized by
having the ATVS synchronized to a NIST NTP (Network Time Protocol)
server in Boulder, Colorado, another preprogrammed NTP source via the
Internet, or an internal time server. Once the ATVS Host Server has
synchronized itself, the correct time is then transmitted to all the clocks.
Amano recommends using ATVS software if more than 10 – 20
TS-3000i are going to be required as they probably will need to be
centrally controlled. ATVS provides reduced network overhead by
reducing excessive Web interaction with a large TS-3000i population.
Amano has engineered ATVS for this type of situation to be the Master
with the clocks acting as the slaves to provide:
 Centralized reporting for all networked clocks with more detail
than the resident TS-3000i transaction database can provide.