User Guide

Setting Up a New MPM or BDS System
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14. Setting Up a New MPM or BDS System
String Status > Setup system or Setup|System
BMDM setup involves defining what systems exist. Each system setup must identify customer,
location, contacts, battery and string information, and other data. All System Setup dialog boxes
except String are identical for both the MPM and BDS.
14.1. System Setup: General Notes
System Setup is password protected. After selecting Setup|System, type the password and
click OK. The password times out after five minutes or you may click the top left
Password
Active
to disable it. If the password is incorrect, the System Setup boxes appear, but New,
Save and Delete are inactive. You can have different Battery Setup and System Setup
passwords. Refer to Default Passwords.
The first time the String Status screen appears, no status information exists. As you add new
systems, they are listed with Unknown status. To set up a new system, select Setup|System,
click New on the Customer dialog box, and complete the System Setup boxes. Systems
previously set up are listed on String Status. When you click Setup|System, the name
highlighted in the list appears in the Customer dialog box. Click New to add a new system
(new customer).
CAUTION: If you fail to click the New button, you will overwrite the previously saved
customer information.
The New button on the Location, Battery, and String boxes adds a new location under an
existing customer, a new battery under an existing location, or a new string under an existing
battery.
To change names or information for an existing system, use the Setup|System dialog boxes. If
BMDM and monitor location, battery or string names do not match, connection fails and an
error message appears. Blank spaces or hyphens can affect a name.
During system setup, if you close before completing and saving the Customer, Location,
Battery and String details, the names will not appear on String Status. To resume editing,
click Setup|System, select the Customer, Location, Battery or String box, and choose the
name from the Name drop-down list.
To display the String ID, Customer Name, Location Name and Battery Name columns on the
String Status screen, select the boxes on Setup|Preferences.
Depending on which System Setup box is displayed, clicking Delete removes all information
for the displayed customer, location, battery or string. All associated set up data will be
permanently lost.