Minicom Advanced Systems 3000

USER GUIDE

Check

When units have been connected or disconnected since last detecting the topology

you can check for any changes to the topology.

To do so:

1. Click . Any new units detected appear as connected but

undefined . You must still define the unit.

2. To manually define the units connected to the ports, click the checkbox of a port

or a number of ports that have the same device connected.

3. Click . A drop-down menu appears.

4. Select the device type. Note! When the device is a Line Splitter, repeat the

process of defining the connected devices for each port of the Line Splitter.

Note! Check does not update the topology, it detects any new connections and units

that are disconnected appear with a yellow exclamation mark .

Update

To add new devices to the present topology click . The new devices

appear. Units that are disconnected appear with a yellow exclamation mark .

Manual

You can display the topology manually whether the system is online or offline.

To display the topology manually:

1. Click . A drop-down menu appears.

2. Select the connected Transmitter/Broadcaster. The selected topology appears on

the left, see Figure 29. If the Service Utility is online you can see which ports

have devices connected. In Figure 29 a device is connected to port 6.