The Vehicles section under Administration is where vehicles are managed. Vehicles can be put in service, taken out of service, or deleted from the system entirely.  

 

In Service

In Service vehicles are vehicles that are currently in service. Vehicles can be taken out of service by clicking the Out of Service button in the Actions column to the far right of the specific vehicle.

 

The screen consists of the following sections and fields:

 

oName – Name of the subject vehicle (i.e. CHIEF_031).

oLast Reported Time – The date and time when the last event was reported.

oActive Port – Port to communicate when in the active state.

oRoaming Port – Port to communicate when in the roaming state.

oGroup – Identifies the Vehicle Group the subject vehicle is assigned.

oActions – Column where the Out of Service and Delete Vehiclebuttons are located.

 

Out of Service

Out Of Service Vehicles are vehicles currently out of service. Vehicles can be placed in service by clicking the In Service button in the Actions column to the far right of the specific vehicle.

 

The window consists of the following sections and fields:

 

oName – Name of the subject vehicle (i.e. TXAST_281).

oLast Reported Time – The date and time when the last event was reported.

oActive Port – Port to communicate when in the active state.

oRoaming Port – Port to communicate when in the roaming state.

oActions – Contains the In Service Merge Change Vehicle Password and Delete Vehiclebuttons.

 

Change Vehicle Password

 

Click the Change Vehicle Password button. A warning message appears asking whether to proceed with the password change.

 

Note: The DVR on the vehicle must be out of service when making the password change.

 

 

 

 

Click No to cancel. Click Yes to proceed and the Change Vehicle Dialog Box appears.

 

 

Enter the new password and click Submit to confirm the change. Click Cancel to stop the change process.

 

Pending

Pending Vehicles are new vehicles that are waiting to be placed into service. If there are no vehicles scheduled to be placed into service, 'No Vehicles Pending' appears on the window.

 

The window consists of the following sections and fields:

 

oName – Name of the subject vehicle.

oLast Reported Time – The date and time when the last event was reported.

oActive Port – port to communicate when in the active state.

oRoaming Port – port to communicate when in the roaming state.

oActions – Contains the Approve Merge and Deletebuttons.

 

Merge

 

Use Merge when a DVR is being replaced on a pending vehicle and the legacy data from the previous DVR needs to be carried over to the new DVR.  Click the Mergebutton to open a Merge Vehicle table that lists the vehicles to merge DVR data from to the DVR on the pending vehicle.

 

From the table, click the Mergebutton in the row of the vehicle to merge data from to the pending vehicle. Click Cancel at the bottom left corner of the table to stop the merging process.

 

HD6 Merge Mode

 

To merge a new DVR, while retaining its data, move the specified vehicle to Out of Service. Click the Mergebutton to place the DVR in merge mode.  While a vehicle is out of service, the new DVR can be provisioned and will maintain the data from the DVR being replaced. After the legacy data has been merged with the new DVR, the vehicle associated with the new DVR will be provisioned and appear in the In Service tab.

 

 

Delete

 

A vehicle can be removed from the system entirely by clicking Delete to the far right of the vehicle you want to remove.

 

Filtering

 

The Name, Last Reported Time, Active Port, Roaming Port, and Group for In Service columns have the capability to allow filtering to enable a closer review of a specific event or to examine a more narrow category of vehicle details. Refer to the Sorting and Filtering section in Introduction for information about using filters.