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GlobalView User's Guide
Table of Contents
4. Management Operations ......................................................................................... 4-1
4.1 Adding a New Site ............................................................................................... 4-1
4.1.1 Renaming a Site............................................................................................ 4-2
4.2 Adding a New G.Loop Unit ................................................................................. 4-2
4.2.1 The G.Loop View......................................................................................... 4-3
4.2.2 Color Coding in the G.Loop View ............................................................... 4-5
4.2.3 Enabling/Disabling Ports.............................................................................. 4-5
4.2.4 Viewing Port Information............................................................................. 4-6
4.3 Deleting Objects................................................................................................... 4-8
4.4 Preparing Reports................................................................................................. 4-9
4.4.1 Selecting the Report Type .......................................................................... 4-10
4.4.2 Specifying the Time Frame......................................................................... 4-10
4.4.3 Specifying the Report Scope ...................................................................... 4-11
4.4.4 Specifying the Report Filters ...................................................................... 4-11
4.4.5 Specifying the Report Output Options........................................................ 4-12
4.4.6 Generating the Report................................................................................. 4-13
4.5 Adding New Rooms ........................................................................................... 4-14
4.6 Adding Internet Kiosks ...................................................................................... 4-15
4.6.1 Assigning the Room to a Port..................................................................... 4-16
4.6.2 Viewing Room Data ................................................................................... 4-17
4.6.3 Editing Room Data ..................................................................................... 4-18
4.7 SNMP Data ........................................................................................................ 4-18
4.7.1 Community Name Settings ......................................................................... 4-18
4.7.2 Polling Intervals ......................................................................................... 4-19
5. Hotel Mode................................................................................................................ 5-1
5.1 Configuring the PMS Interface ............................................................................ 5-1
5.1.1 Serial Port Settings ....................................................................................... 5-3
5.1.2 Configuring GlobalView in Standalone Mode ............................................. 5-4
5.1.3 Printer Settings ............................................................................................. 5-5
5.2 Accounting Policy................................................................................................ 5-6
5.2.1 Setting the Accounting Options for Rooms .................................................. 5-8
5.2.2 Internet Kiosk Accounting Policy............................................................... 5-11
5.3 The Add Rooms Option ..................................................................................... 5-12
5.4 Assigning a Room to a Port................................................................................ 5-13
5.5 Using Automatic Room Assignment .................................................................. 5-14
5.6 Unassigning a Room .......................................................................................... 5-15
5.7 The Hotel View.................................................................................................. 5-15
5.7.1 General ....................................................................................................... 5-15
5.7.2 Hotel View Modes...................................................................................... 5-16
5.7.3 Starting the Hotel View .............................................................................. 5-16
5.7.4 Hotel View Operations ............................................................................... 5-18
5.7.5 Accepting Prepayment for a Room............................................................. 5-19
5.7.6 Viewing the Time Remaining..................................................................... 5-20
5.7.7 Charging for Internet Kiosk Access............................................................ 5-20
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