Visual simulator. Installation of network version

Succession of steps to install a networked version of the simulator :

Consists of connecting computers through a switch and setting IP addresses for all connected computers. Read this for details.

If yout simulator uses radio equipment, connect audio devices: (better headphones) to computers.

Step 3 : installing the simulator on computers

Install sofware on a single master computer. Insert the installation CD in its CD drive and run setupmaster.exe.

Install software on one or several slave computers. Run setupslave.exe on all of them. Specify master computer name correctly!



You will be asked to reboot every slave computer. Do it to run the simulator server.

Step 4 : setting shared folders

Make sure that Windows firewall is on, and then set all installation directories (by default, c:\Program Files\MI Simulators) as shareable and changeable by all users. To do this, go to "My computer"->"c:\Program Files\MI Simulators"-> "File"->"Properties"->"Sharing and security"->"Sharing", check "Share this folder on the network" and check "Allow network users to change my files". Then [OK].
When you first run the simulator, the Windows firewall will ask you to block or unblock creation of network sockets. Click [Unblock].

Step 5 : is it all working?

What we will get after installation?

On master computer, the icon "Visual simulator"



which will run exercise manager.
On slave computers, small taskbar icons



If you click it once, you will get a list of connected simulator components:



from which you can make impression of the current state of simulator modules. Initially, the master computer is not in this list. It is started manually as the whole simulator by clicking the desktop icon on master computer.

Click the desktop icon on master computer to run the simulator.
Design new or load existing exercises with exercise manager. In the network version, you may have a number of active ships with equipment distributed over slave computers like that: