Installation guide

Installation Guide AMS Suite: Intelligent Device Manager
NOVEMBER 2013
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• Right-click the Plant Database icon on the designated consolidation
Server Plus Station, select Import > From Remote to import the database
from the other stations one at a time. Click Help on the Import From
Remote System dialog for instructions.
Method 2
Use this method when the stations are not connected to a common network.
• From the Plant Database icon on all of the non-consolidation Server Plus
Stations, select Export > To <type> Export File to prepare a database
merge file. Click Help on the AMS Device Manager Export dialog for
instructions.
3. When the databases have been consolidated, perform a database backup of the
consolidated database.
4. The AMS Device Manager 12.5 Server Plus Station can be installed using one of
the following methods (see
“Installing Server Plus Station software” on page
51).
Method 1
Install AMS Device Manager 12.5 as a station upgrade, if upgrading from
version 10.0 or later which automatically migrates the consolidated database.
Method 2
Uninstall the current 9.x or earlier station software and install version 12.5 as a
new Server Plus Station. Restore the consolidated database.
Consolidating Service Notes
The database backup operation also creates a backup file of service notes. If you
would like to consolidate the service notes from multiple AMS Device Manager
stations, follow the relevant instructions in the readme file for the Drawings and
Notes Management Utility. This information is included in the SNAP-ONS And
Tools\Tech_Support_Utilities\DrawingsAndNotesUtility folder on the AMS Device
Manager installation DVD.
Note
To Import > From Remote, you must have AMS Device Manager System Administration
permissions.