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7. SENTINEL V2.2.0 Technical Reference
7.1 Installation Notes.
There are a few simple requirements to install and use SENTINEL.
Minimum Hardware Requirements
• PC running WIN95C/98 or NT4
• Pentium 100 or better processor
• 32M of RAM
• CD-ROM
• 5M of free hard drive space
• VGA screen
• One spare serial port.
• One spare printer port for external alarm feature ( if required ).
Installing the software
• For a NEW INSTALLATION, see Section 4.1 for full instructions.
• For a UPGRADE INSTALLATION, see Section 4.2 for full instructions.
Additional Installation Notes.
You may want SENTINEL to automatically load on power up. This can be done by placing SENTINEL in the
STARTUP folder in the TASKBAR of windows. Right click the mouse when cursor on the taskbar, then select ADD
and follow the wizard to put SENTINEL into the start menu.
For Win98/NT versions, you may need to remove the WINDOWS LOGON from NETWORKING to prevent windows
from requesting a password to start. (SETTINGS, CONTROL PANEL, NETWORK, select Windows logon, select
REMOVE, OK.)
Before SENTINEL can be effectively used, it must be configured with details of names, functionality and connection
method to be used. The RCU-01 units must be configured by direct cable connection to the Host to download the
configuration parameters the first time.
Note If PSTN modems are to be used, the modem for the RCU-01 must be configured also.
Please refer to the INITIAL SETUP section of this manual for the details of the setup sequence.
Installing the External Alarm feature
Local alarm port configuration.
To allow for local alarms using the ELAN local alarm interface you need to do the following. Exit SENTINEL first.
• Find a free printer port on your computer
• Add a 'generic printer' using the standard windows printer configuration and the free printer port.
• Call the printer "Sentinel alarm'. Note: It must be called this exactly or SENTINEL will not work.
• To use the local alarm, enable 'Local Alarms' on the 'configure alarms' window.
• For each RCU that you require local alarms, configure the 'local alarm' bits required on the individual RCU config
window ( under the 'paging' tab ). When any alarm is received with local alarms enabled the selected bits are
bitwise OR'd together and output to the local alarm port.
• Pressing the 'local alarm ack' button will clear all local alarms.
ELAN can provide a suitable relay box. This unit is called the SAR-01.
The connections for the parallel port must be as follows, or you will get printer errors from Windows.
Loop pins 1 to 10.
Loop pins 18, 11 and 12.
Grounds are pins 18 to 25.
Outputs are pins 2 to 9, alarm1 to alarm 8 respectively. TTL outputs active high.