Vision™ MX280001A Spectrum Monitoring Application Software : Create a Database : Exercise – Creating a Real Database for Your Probes : Importing a Probe List – Example 2
 
Importing a Probe List – Example 2
1. Clear all of the input tables in Vision Database Creator and click New from the toolbar.
2. With the Import target receiver list from file radio button checked, click the button with a folder icon to browse for a file containing a probe list.
3. Locate the file St Louis GPS_Group.lst in the Example Files sub-folder of the Vision application folder under Program Files (x86).
4. As in the previous section, click the preview button to see that this file has more content than the last.
5. Set Number of channels/target receiver station to 1, as shown in Figure: New Database Description Dialog - Example 2.
New Database Description Dialog - Example 2
6. Click OK to close the import dialog.
You will now see the Import Base Stations dialog (Figure: Import Base Stations Dialog - Example 2). This dialog lets you specify what each field in the import file corresponds to in the Probe list. The file we have selected this time has five columns, Name, Latitude, Longitude, IP address, and Group name (under Description). The import dialog will try to determine the field separator (comma, semicolon or tab) and make a best guess at the fields the file contains. In this case it has identified the last column as Description, but that is not what is intended.
7. Click on the down-arrow in the header to the fifth column and change Description to Group.
8. Do not want to leave the Description field blank, so click the check box labeled: Use Name as Description. This will copy the Name field into the Description field in the next step.
 
Import Base Stations Dialog - Example 2
9. Click Import and the input tables in Database Creator are compiled as shown in (Figure: Create Database Dialog – Imported Probe List – Example 2).
10. Set the output destination (click Path) so that you do not overwrite a database you want to keep, and then click Create.
• Run Vision Monitor to edit any further sweep parameters or Probe specific parameters.
Create Database Dialog – Imported Probe List – Example 2
11. In Vision Monitor, right-click any of the probes names to open the probe context menu (see Figure: Probe Context Menu Selections).
• Here you can edit the name, description, location, height, group, contact, etc.
12. On the Probe context menu you also have options to Add and Remove probes from the list as well as Enable/Disable Sweep on all channels of a selected probe.
13. When a new probe is added, click Enable Sweep on All Channels to activate all channels on the new probe.
• Removing a probe is permanent. Traces are not deleted but there is no way to access them in Vision Monitor. The first item on the context menu will open a web browser with a live connection. This is the same as Live View in Vision Monitor, but uses an external browser window, so Vision Monitor is not tied-up with Live View.
 
Probe Context Menu Selections