User Guide

Viewing Battery and Monitor Status
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23. Viewing Battery and Monitor Status
At program start, the String Status screen lists all available monitor systems. The program can
sound an alarm, contact a pager, send a fax or email, or print alarm event details. When a monitor
reports an alarm, an alarm detail box appears until you acknowledge it. The String Status column
on the String Status screen lists the condition, and Update Date indicates alarm time. Historical
Events displays the history and details about the alarm. When there is a new entry, click the
flashing Historical Events button to display the history. This chapter describes these screens.
F3 - Press the F3 key to toggle between the string, battery, location, and customer status screens.
There are two ways to view data from a battery: real-time and offline.
Viewing battery data in real time means having the computer connected to the monitor via
modem, LAN, or an RS-232 cable. After communication is established, String View displays the
real time readings.
Viewing data offline means viewing data removed from the monitor and stored in the computer
database. To view data offline, highlight the site on String Status, then select View|Offline.
String View displays data for the site. No voltages are displayed because the system is offline and
not connected to the site.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If no bar graph data appears on String View, go to the menu bar on
String Status, click Setup|Database Range, then select Entire DB to determine if data is available.
23.1. Opening and Saving a Database
String Status > Open or File|Open
At start up, the BMDM opens the previously opened database. To open another database,
select Open, highlight the desired database, and click Open. You do not need to close the
currently open database before opening a new one.
String Status > File|Open Backup
The Open Backup selection works the same as Open. When the program opens an Access
backup file, it converts it from a ZIP to an MDB file.
String Status > File|Save As
String Status > Backup database
or File|Backup Database
To save an Access database as an MDB database file, select File|Save As. To save the
database as a backup, select File|Backup Database, which saves the MDB file as a ZIP file.
BMDM generation of backup files for SQL-based MDF and LDF files is not available. Refer
to Understanding Polling, Extraction and Backup.
String Status > Close or File|Close
String Status > File|New
To close a database, select File|Close. To create a new database, select File|New.