TB8100 Service Kit User’s Manual Working With Base Station Configurations 43Creating a New ConfigurationYou can create a new base station configuration from scratch, modify it, andsave it as a new configuration. This means that you can define a configurationwithout being connected to a base station. This is a good way to learn how touse the configuration part of the Service Kit program. It also means that youcan do all the work of configuring before a base station is delivered. When itarrives, you just open the configuration file and program it into the base station.(This method completely overwrites the base station’s current settings.)To create a new configuration1. Select File > New. The Select Template File dialog box appears.2. Select an appropriate template (*.t8t file) from the templates in theTemplate folder. This template will provide a set of default settings.Templates can be provided by Tait or created for your system ororganization.3. Click Open.The title bar displays ‘Untitled.t8c’, indicating that you have not given theconfiguration a name and saved it.You can now click Configure to view the current configuration settings, makeany configuration changes, and save the configuration settings to a file. You canalso program a base station with these settings.Reading a ConfigurationBefore you can view a base station’s configuration settings, you must read them.If they were saved to a file, they also exist in the Service Kit’s Configurationsfolder.Note: Reading configuration settings overwrites any settings that theService Kit has in memory. If you have opened a configuration file,save and close it first.1. Connect to the BSS and log on to the base station.2. Click Read.The Service Kit reads the base station’s configuration information. If thisinformation was saved to a file, the Service Kit loads the information fromthat file. This is much quicker, especially for remote connections. It checksto make sure that the information on file is the same as the information inthe base station. If some parts of the configuration in the base station havebeen updated after the file was saved, these parts are read from the basestation.
