User guide

2 198 Pt Addr.Panel
PS-Tools 08/2010
Introduction
PS-Tools Features
PS-Tools provides many features such as:
• Maintaining details of the fire panel customers.
• Configuring the settings for the fire panel for a customer.
• Verify Setup feature which helps in verifying the configuration before downloading to panel.
• Download utility to download the configuration information to the fire panel.
• Upload utility to upload the event logs, history data, and troubleshoot data from fire panel.
• File Comparison utility, which allows location by location comparison of separate upload and
download files.
• Export Configuration feature to export the saved configuration to a file.
• Import Configuration details from the panel.
• Graphical representation of the installed devices.
• Simulation feature, which displays the correlation of the input and output devices.
• Migrate the database files from PK-Plus to PS-Tools.
• Fire panel troubles and events troubleshooting.
User Profile
Table 1-1 lists the roles and responsibilities for the PS-Tools users.
Table 1-1 User roles and responsibilities
User Role Responsible for
Service Technician/Installer • Commissioning and installing the fire
alarm system.
• Configuring the fire panel
programmable data.
Support Engineer • Attending the support calls from the
fields.
• Providing training to the service
technicians.
Fire Panel distributors • Marketing the fire panels.
Primary and Secondary Central
Stations
• Reporting events, troubles, and alarms
to the central station.