Preparing Your System for CygNet Dispatch

Because CygNet Dispatch is designed to work with an existing CygNet Measurement system via an instance of CygNet Bridge, your system must be prepared to support operation of CygNet Bridge and CygNet Dispatch in addition to your CygNet installation. CygNet Bridge is the intermediary application that connects to both an FMS for CygNet Measurement and a CygNet Dispatch installation to facilitate secure data interaction between the two.

Preparing your system is part of the process to add CygNet Dispatch to your system.

See CygNet Bridge for general information about that component.

See CygNet Measurement in the CygNet Help for more information about CygNet Measurement functionality.

Prepare Your System

To prepare your system, prior to installing CygNet Bridge or CygNet Dispatch, complete the following preparatory tasks:

• Comply with CygNet system requirements — See Preparing your System for CygNet Bridge for more information.
• Prepare CygNet Software
• Prepare CygNet Measurement

Prepare CygNet Software

To Configure CygNet Software for CygNet Dispatch

1. In the Address Resolution Service (ARS), install the CygNet Dispatch license provided by your Account Manager or CygNet Sales.
• Trial license — Runs CygNet Dispatch as a trial until a specified date; will not start after the expiration date
• Full license — Runs CygNet Dispatch for a specified number of configured facilities based on your site needs; has no expiration date

2. In the Access Control Service (ACS), configure the ACS security settings needed for CygNet Bridge and CygNet Dispatch access.

   See Configuring Applications and Events and Assigning Permissions to Events in the Security section of the main CygNet Help for more information about this process.

1. On the Permissions page, right-click to access the context menu and then select New App to access the New Application dialog box.
2. Enter the following values to add security events and users for CygNet Dispatch access, for each permission level needed (examples shown for levels 2 and 5):
   • Application: FMS, Description: Flow Measurement Service, Event: JOB, Event Description: Dispatch Job, Security ID: [Enter all desired User IDs for Level 2], Level: 2, ID Type: US
   • Application: FMS, Description: Flow Measurement Service, Event: JOB, Event Description: Dispatch Job, Security ID: [Enter all desired User IDs for Level 5], Level: 5, ID Type: US.

   See FMS Security in the CygNet Help for more information about user authorization levels for CygNet Dispatch.

Once CygNet Software is prepared, you can proceed to Preparing CygNet Measurement for CygNet Dispatch.

Prepare CygNet Measurement

To Configure CygNet Measurement for CygNet Dispatch

1. Verify or Install CygNet Measurement and open FMS Explorer.
2. Identify the FMS Nodes you want to appear in CygNet Dispatch.
3. Assign the selected FMS Nodes to job groups, if you want them to appear in the Dispatch administrative options for group assignment.

   Note: This step is solely to ensure that group assignment options appear in CygNet Dispatch, in the Group Assignment administrative option, in the drop-down list of groups. It is not required for all Dispatch job assignments. CygNet Dispatch jobs can also be assigned to Nodes using CSV files imported into CygNet Dispatch, and only Node name is required to create, modify or delete jobs in that manner.

   Set the "Category" value equal to "Job" for each group desired, so it will appear in the Dispatch client as a group job assignment option.

   Note: On the FMS Explorer Nodes menu, click Manage Groups to access the Manage Groups dialog where you can insert or delete group category entries. You can also type "Job" into the Category field of the group Node properties; once typed into the Category field, it will subsequently appear as a drop-down menu option in the Group Assignment administrative menu in Dispatch. See Managing Group Nodes > Managing Group Categories in the CygNet Help for help configuring the "category" field.

4. Configure Job and Late Job Report Template files for your reports. See Managing Report Template Files in the CygNet Help for more information.
5. Optionally schedule any Job or Late Job reports commands in the MSS, if you want to produce them automatically. See Scheduling FMS Command Tasks in the MSS in the CygNet Help for more information.
6. Optionally schedule a Precalculate Calibration Data command in the MSS, if you want to run the process automatically. See Scheduling FMS Command Tasks in the MSS in the CygNet Help for more information.

Once all preparations are complete, you can proceed to Installing CygNet Bridge and then Installing CygNet Dispatch.