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Control panel
Selecting Control Panel from the Concurrent Maintenance menu will show the display in
Figure 10-85. From this display you can click Continue to remove and replace an existing
control panel, or to add a new control panel. You could, for example, remove an existing
control panel that has become inoperative and replace it with a new control panel.
This option prepares the control panel for concurrent maintenance by
logically isolating the
control panel. As a result, the firmware does not recognize the control panel as being active
and you can remove it without powering off the frame.
Figure 10-85 Control Panel
Select an action, either Install or Remove, and click the Continue button. The next page
displays either a location code for the control panel, or a list of location codes for all control
panels present. Most system will only have a single control panel. Our example in
Figure 10-86 shows that we are going to remove a control panel with concurrent
maintenance.
Figure 10-86 Example: Control panel removal using concurrent maintenance
Choose a control panel for the selected action and click the Save settings button. You will be
presented with a confirmation panel as shown in Figure 10-87. It is now safe to have the
service representative do a physical removal, or removal and replacement of the control
panel.
Figure 10-87 Confirm control panel removal
Attention: If you remove the control panel, you should return later to install the control
panel after the hardware has been replaced.