EzSaveWin Features
- 100% Windows technology
- Can operate stand alone
- Can be started from GenWatch3®
- Supports 6 controllers standard. Can be easily expanded in blocks of 6 controllers
- Supports all known 6809 and MTC3600 Central Controllers
- Supports Main and Standby Central Controller session, sequentially
- Supports modem or direct RS232 connection to SMT ports
- Total Central Controller backup
- Via CSAVE / MSAVE
- Via ASCII
- SUBS/SAC options
- Total Central Controller restore
- Via CLOAD / MLOAD
- Via ASCII
- Via Genesis Trio database synchronization
- Scheduled backups
- Create unlimited schedules of:
- System to backup
- Sections of the Central Controller to backup
- Days of the week for the action
- Create unlimited schedules of:
- Automatic DIAG (diagnostics) saving
- Captures DIAGS from the Print command
- Captures DIAGS that appear during normal GRD> sessions
- DIAG translation
- Takes the complex Hex numbers and makes it simple to understand
- Gives a suggested course of action
- Allows GRD> command prompt activity
- View any backup/save files created by EzSaveWin
- Supports multiple generations of backups — nine by default, but can go to infinite number
- View system reports and sessions
- View log of each connection to a system — connection attempts, success, failures, tasks completed, etc.
- View complete session of a connection. Saves any GRD> communication from EzSaveWin to System and from System to EzSaveWin
- Backup Guardian options
- Guardian status (GSTA)
- Guardian parameters (GPAR)
- Channel group & protection (CHGP)
- Shared services list (SSLI)
- Shared services limits (SSLM)
- Telephone backup
- Billing information
- Exchange table (LEXC)
- Telephone charges (LTEL)
- Airtime charges (LAIR)
- Authorization Information
- Translation table (TRAN/ALIAS)
- Direct dial (ADID)
- Exclusion classes (AECN)
- Auth parameters (PARM)
- Predigit dialing sequence (PDIG)
- Telephone information
- Telephone repeater interface (TELP/TRIC)
- Phone line interface (TELP/PRIC)
- Telephone Billing
- Backup current month's SAIR
- Save last month's SAIR
- Backup current month's STEL
- Save last month's STEL
- Backup logged calls listing
- via SLNG
- via CLNG
- Append or override interconnect shared services parameters and statistics (SERV Append, SERV Override)
- Backup all channels' status
- Synchronize system's date/time via LAN
- Clear DIAGs from system
- Line noise filter
- Import system(s) from EzSave DOS
- Billing information
EzSaveWin
Once upon a time, Motorola had CAS and SMT Access. Today, there's EzSaveWin. EzSaveWin has all of the capabilities of SMT Access and much more on the Windows® operating system. One of the largest differences is — rather than allowing access to only one site with a maximum of 2 Central Controllers as in SMT Access, EzSaveWin enables access to 6 Central Controllerss by default, in any combination. License upgrades in groups of 6 may be added in virtually unilimited quantities. With EzSaveWin creates backup schedules of anything and everything in a Central Controller. In addition to Database Backup (CSAVE and MSAVE), EzSaveWin allows the same operations in ASCII to better understand the results.
Interpreting GRD>
Motorola Central Controllers have an internal operating system called Guardian (GRD>). System managers use GRD> to permit radios to use the system and set other operating parameters on the system. Talking to it can be like working with DOS...or Sanskrit. EzSaveWin greatly simplifies the job by automating many of the daily GRD> tasks.
EzSaveWin Interface
 EzSaveWin home |
 Scheduler |
 Connect |
 Backup Scheduler |
 Add New System |
 Backup/Save Status |
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EzSaveWin In action:
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SMT Access Features
- Issue commands remotely without needing to be at the Central Controller
- Control system functions remotely with command line access to the Central Controller
- Query an individual radio's Central Controller status
- Backup and restore subscriber and authorization databases. This allows the Network Manager to preserve data from the Central Controller database in the event of system failure.
- View diagnostics for the Central Controller to identify and diagnose system issues
- Access SmartNet central controller(s) from a remote location using SMT Access. Additionally, the SMT Access server may be accessed remotely from client workstations in a multi-user configuration.
- Access both an active and a standby central controller simultaneously
EzSaveWin Legacy
EzSave was first created in the late 1980s by Larry Voyles, a Motorola SMR operator in Georgia. Larry and Phil Burks met at a trade show and began trading their experiences of their Central Controllers (CCs) crashing and having to reload all of the SAC and SUBS and AUTH records by hand. Larry had created ProCom "scripts" that could run to fairly well emulate the hand key strokes that were needed to reload things. Phil and Larry talked about creating software that would do this, but more elegantly, and one that would automatically backup CCs. EzSave was the result.
When all of the trunk systems and the company Larry worked for was sold to Nextel, Larry turned EzSave over to Phil and The Genesis Group. In 1995, EzSaveII was deployed to communicate with, backup and restore over 800 Nextel owned Motorola trunk systems all across the USA. Almost every variation of GRD> was found at that time. EzSaveII quickly became the industry standard and was purchased by Motorola for SMR operations around the globe.
In 2002, it was obvious that DOS was fairly dead as far as Microsoft was concerned, but Motorola was still selling Central Controllers for SmartNet. Genesis responded by recreating EzSave from the ground up using the latest Microsoft .NET programming techniques.