ARGUS 5.

4: Installation and Configuration

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Lesson 1: ARGUS Installation

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1. Essential needed installation equipment 2. Requirements for PC-Hardware 3. Supported Microsoft-Windows operation systems 4. Concept of ARGUS-Versions 5. Concept of ARGUS-OPTIONS 6. Content of ARGUS-Installation-DVD 7. Installation-Process 8. ARGUS-Installation as application versus as service 9. De-Installation of ARGUS 10. ARGUS-Installation-Manual

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Lesson 2: ARGUS Configuration

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1. User-/User-Group Configuration 2. Measurement Unit Configuration

- General Settings; Device-, Path-, System- Configuration, Alarm Settings - Table-Wizard (Transducer, Correction, Bearing-Correction) - Editing a small Configuration from the scratch - Explanations based on typical configurations

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3. Control Unit Configuration

- General Settings; System View; User Lists; User Specific Export Format; SIS

4. Saving and Loading Configurations 5. Local / Remote

- Sending / Receiving Meas. Unit Configurations to Remote Meas. Unit

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Lesson-1 ARGUS-Installation: Essential Equipment

Following components are needed: DVD (for ARGUS-Versions < 5.3: CD-ROM) : Software for R&S-ARGUS-Systems CD-ROM: Options for R&S ARGUS-Systems ARGUS-Hardlock (USB or parallel) (optional: CD-ROM: actual Service-Pack)

Lesson-1 ARGUS-Installation: Requirements to PC-HW

Windows Vista Business Processor Pentium III 3.2 GHz 2 GB Windows XP Pentium III 1 GHz 512 MB Windows 2000 Pentium III 1 GHz 512 MB

RAM

Free Disk Space

80 GB

80 GB

80 GB

Graphics resolution

At least: 1024 x 768

At least: 1024 x 768

At least: 1024 x 768

Lesson-1 ARGUS-Installation: Supported Windows Operation Systems

Windows NT 4.0 5.0 / 5.1 Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Vista

5.2

5.3

5.4

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An ARGUS-Version is listed as 5. 4 (Service Pack x)

Major Version
-Release-cycle more than 5 years

Main Version
-Release-cycle about 1 years

Minor Version
- No release-cycle - for supporting new FW-versions of monitoring equipment - for ARGUS-improvements - for bug-fixing -free of charge according the purchased main version

- not free of charge

- not free of charge

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ARGUS-Version-History
ARGUS-Version 4.4.0 5.0.0 5.1 5.1.5 5.2 5.2.2 5.3 5.4 5.4.1 Release-Date 30.01.2001 04.11.2002 12.12.2003 20.10.2004 15.12.2004 30.06.2006 28.06.2007 June 2009 June 2010 SP 11 (11/2008) SP 7 SP 3 (08/2008) (04/2010) SP 18 (07/2008) Remark / Last Service Pack No more supported

Lesson-1 ARGUS-Installation: Option-Concept 1/2

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Running ARGUS-SW requires (unique) Hardlock and associated Option-Files Up to version 5.2: parallel Hardlock is delivered since version 5.2: USB-Hardlock is delivered Multiple parallel Hardlocks can be plugged in a row on on the PC (e.g. ARGUS-HL, MapView-HL and AllAudio-HL) Only 1 USB-Hardlock can be plugged on the PC; plugging more than 1 USB-Hardlocks to the PC results that only one of them will be recognized (random which of them) Starting with MapView-version and AllAudio-version Only one Hardlock for all applications together is needed

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Inside the Option-file there is coded: - the associated Hardlock-nr. - the number, how often a device-driver can be loaded (default 2) There are about 25 different ARGUS-options, categorized to device-drivers groups, measurement-modes, interfaces and extensions Options are needed on measurement-unit as well as on controlunit. As a rule of thumb: - basic-option is required everywhere - device-driver-options are required, where devices are (i.e. on the measurement unit) - measurement-mode and interfaces are required, where the respective action is initiated see also document: Configuration and Licensing ARGUS

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Default: Unchecked Unmanned Station: Checked

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Lesson-1 ARGUS-Installation: Service versus application

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ARGUS can be installed as application (start via desktop-icon) or as service service can be used for un-manned measurement-units, where during a PC-start/reboot ARGUS will be started automatically (without any operator-action) for unmanned station, there is also the possibility to start ARGUS via the autostart-group of windows

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Control Panel --> Services: Stop the PostgreSQL Service

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Go to Installation Drive: Delete DATA_PG and PostgreSQL folders

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Control Panel --> Add or remove Programms Remove ARGUS

Lesson-1 ARGUS-Installation: Installation-Manual

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In the manual MAN_ARGUS_Support_EN.pdf, which is located on the ARGUS-DVD in the directory \Documents\ there are further information about this training like: installation and configuration for - third party HW (e.g. digi-board) - additional applications (e.g. DDFMMI) - drivers and utilities -

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Lesson-2 ARGUS-Configuration:

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Lesson-2 ARGUS-Configuration: User-/User Groups 1/2

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Starting ARGUS the first time after successful installation: The first task of ARGUS is the configuration of the usergroups and user

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Lesson-2 ARGUS-Configuration: Visualizer

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After successful configuration of an user and login into ARGUS, there is an empty visualizer Now, you have to do the Measurement- and Control-Unit configuration

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Measurement Unit Configuration (General): 1/4

Measurement Unit Configuration is started via the menu Configuration Measurement Unit Configuration

In the Measurement Unit Configuration there are 2 categories which have to be configured: General and Devices Under General, there are 3 groups to be configured

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Measurement Unit Configuration (General) 2/4: General Settings

Vehicle: needed for automatic GPS-coordinates-take-over PC-Time: Only relevant, if GPS-device is available. Time interval at which the PC-time is updated by GPS (starting at 00:15) Disk Usage: Maximum of hard disk-usage for file-saving Saving interval: time-interval in which measurement-results are written to harddisk Start Delay: Time-Delay for starting ARGUS SMS: Inside AMM, SMS can be send

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Measurement Unit Configuration (General) 3/4: Simulator

Simulator: for signal simulation when device is in virtual mode. Not needed for real operation

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Measurement Unit Configuration (General) 4/4: Alarm Settings

Only for SW-option AMM !
Save in AMM Log File: All Warnings, Alarms, Activity and Error messages of the AMM are written into the AMM Log File. Buffer Time: Messages which are older than the buffer time are overwritten in the AMM Log File Forward Messages / Station: All Warnings, Alarms, Activity and Error messages are forwarded to the Control Unit. Delay Time : The messages are transferred with a certain delay time so that messages can be gathered. This prevents having to initiate the complete transfer procedure for each message. Summarize Messages: Only active for Save in AMM Log File. The messages are summarized over the selected Delay Time to a single line message.

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Transducer and Corrections 1/3
For Absolute Measurements the following Objects have to be taken in account :

Transducer Factor of the selected Antenna Correction Factor No. of Connectors DC-Feeder, Filters, Attenuators, Lightning Protectors and cables types before the Switching Matrix No. of Connectors cables and Filters after the Switching Matrix
RF

RF

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Using the ARGUS-Table-Wizard is the easiest way for generating Transducers and Corrections

The Path Correction must be generated before the device configuration stage The Transducer (factors) can be generated before or during device configuration stage.

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Measurement Unit Configuration (Device) 1/5:

Selecting the devices; antennas, receivers, switch units etc...
Load-Devices: Only devices which options are available will be listed Method: Can be dragged and dropped to Visualizer area or selected from the <device> menu

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Measurement Unit Configuration (Device) 2/5:

Assigning the transducer factors in the Antenna properties
Method: Select from a predefined list or from the navigator menu (eg, created from table wizard Polarisation: Only for dual-polarised antennas like ADD157, ADD197 Azimuth, Polarization, Elevation: Only active for steerable (rotorcontrolled) antennas

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Assigning the device properties

Measurement Unit Configuration (Device) 3/5:

Interface: Physical interface of a device to the ARGUS-PC,e.g serial, network, GPIB Physical / Virtual / A device can be switched between Phycial and Virtual-Mode with the Modify button Input and Outputs: thenumber of inputs and outputs of the device driver can be selected Properties: Devicespecific parameters have to be configured. Important: TCP/IP

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Setting the System Path

Measurement Unit Configuration (Device) 4/5:

System Path: Use to link 2 or more devices together Method: Click and drag to connect between the devices

Signal Path: The signal path/ correction (created in the table wizard) must be referenced to the system path Devices with multiple inputs, eg, ESMD, DDF255 need to have their inputs assigned to the respective paths

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Measurement Unit Configuration (Device) 5/5:

All the detail about the Measurement are written in the ARGUSmanual (e.g. for ARGUS-version 5.4 in the chapter 2.5.1).

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Control Unit Configuration 1/8
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Control Unit Configuration is started via the menu Configuration Control Unit Configuration

In the Control Unit Configuration there are 5 folders which have to be configured: General Settings, System View, User List, User Spec. Export Formats and Status Information System

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Control Unit Configuration 2/8: General Settings

Logging: Only for software option RCI: Define what have to be logged. Log File: Name for the Log File Sending/Receiving data: Exceeding this time will cancel the procedure for sending or receiving data from a device with an error-message. Establish Connections: Exceeding this time will cancel the procedure for establishing a communication to a measurement-unit with an error-message. Graphic Settings: Syncr. Time: on every connection to a measurement unit the system time of the measurement unit is set to the system time of the control unit Name of Alarm Log File: Default-Name of the General Log File for received AMM messages. Display Antenna Direction in MapView: If On and in Auxiliary Toolbar Automatic Position Transfer to MapView is selected the direction of SuperAntennas is displayed in MapView.

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Control Unit Configuration 3/8: General Settings

Write Protection: If Off selected the write protection can only changed by members of the same usergroup. If On selected the write protection only can changed by the owner and administrators. System Log File: General Logfile SystemLog_<Control Unit Name> is created. Available Data Base: Names of databases with which ARGUS can exchange data. Measurement Results/Compress: Measurement results will be automatic exportet in XML/ZIP-format to the directory \ARGUS\OUTBOX. ORM Orders: ORM-Orders will be automatic exportet in XML-format to the directory \ARGUS\OUTBOX. Transmitter/Frequency Lists: All changes in Transmitter or Frequency List are exported automatically to the corresponding database. Update Import of Transmitter and Frequency Lists: Transmitter or Frequency Lists which were created by a request from a database can be updated with the selected time interval.

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Control Unit Configuration 4/8: General Settings

Limit for Automatic Export: Number of data records, which are maximally allowed in a Measurement Result, so that the Measurement Result will be exported. (data records in the directory \ARGUS\OUTBOX UPS Time: Time remaining for saving the settings between the arrival of an UPS event and the shutdown of ARGUS. At the end of this period ARGUS automatically shuts down without saving any settings. A running AMM Measurement will be restarted after rebooting the system. Windows Background: File name with path for the background image for the main window of the ARGUS. Image files have to be in Windows Metafile format (.WMF). Windows Background: File name with Representation of active System Paths in two colors per System Path.

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Control Unit Configuration 5/8: System View

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Control Unit Configuration 6/8: System View

Measurement PC: Host name or IPaddress of measurement PC Dial-Up Networking: List of dial-upconnections, which have to be configured by Windows. Have to be selected, if a measurement unit is connected via dial-up-connection. Control Unit: Display of the control unit name. Measurement Unit: measurement unit name. Service: The measurement unit is referenced on a measurement PC via a service. Transfer Rate: This parameter limits the transfer of UDP data (Audio, IF) between measurement und control unit for each UDP channel. Status Inquiry: Only for option SIS Inquiry Interval: Only for option SIS

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Control Unit Configuration 7/8: User List
During the first login-process to ARGUS, the operator is forced to enter one user + usergroup and an appropriate password. Basically, this is enough to operate with ARGUS ! On this configuration-page, it is possible to add addtional user and usergroups. Meaning of usergroups (generally valid for user-classAdministrator): - The data in the navigator are usually only visible for user of the same usergroup (exeption: Transducer and Correction). -Write Protection for file can be changed only by members of the same usergroup Meaning of user-class: Administrator is enabled to edit and sending configurations, deleting / modifying meas.-results of the same usergroup. User: Limited rights in comparison to the administrator

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Control Unit Configuration 8/8: User Spec. Export Formats

Only for option DEI: Possibilty for definitions of formats, how measurement data will be exported by the navigator.

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Loading and Saving Configurations

As well the Measurement Unit Configuration as well the Control Unit Configuration can be saved (ARGUS-proprietary-format) and loaded.

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