User Guide

Setting Up a New MPM or BDS System
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16.8. System Setup: Reporting
String Status > Setup|System|Reporting
The Reporting dialog box selects the devices the Central or Local computer contacts when
the monitor reports during continuous polling or calls in an event. Before completing this
dialog box, confirm the correct customer, location, battery, and string are selected on the
Customer, Location, Battery, and String boxes. A Service computer cannot open the
Reporting box.
Simultaneous Polling - If two computers are set up to poll the hardware (a Server/Central
and a Workstation/Local), set up only one to perform the reporting, emailing, and faxing;
otherwise, both computers will attempt to perform this when an alarm is identified.
Figure 47. System Setup - Reporting
Page On Alarm - Select to display the Page Report Alarm Event box on error and send alarm
notification to a pager. Click a button for the kind of pager being used: numeric or
alphanumeric.
With a numeric pager, a six digit code is sent:
Digit 1: Report Type
1 = Discharge
2 = Alarm
3 = Warning
Digits 2 to 6: String ID
For example, to report an alarm in String ID 1, the pager would display 200001.
An alphanumeric pager displays the location, battery, and string names and alarm detail.