NAT-MCH Users Manual Version 1.16

NAT-MCH – Users Manual
NatView is a graphical application that can be used to monitor and control a MTCA system
using IPMI messages. The application is written entirely in Java – it should therefore run on
every operating system that is able to execute the Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
7.3.1.1 Supported Java Releases
NatView requires Sun Java 1.5 Update 14 or higher. We chose to use this Sun Java version to
guarantee the largest possible JRE installation basis on Window, Linux and Mac OS X
systems. If in doubt enter
java –version
in a command prompt window. An appropriate copy of the Sun JRE can be obtained at
java.sun.com.
7.3.1.2 Installing and running NatView
NatView is usually distributed as a zip archive. Do the following steps to install NatView on
your system:
1. Extract the content of the zip archives to an empty directory. This empty directory will be
the root directory of the application.
2. Start the application from within the root directory. (Otherwise the application cannot
find the board images in the subdirectory images.)
From the command line type
cd
java –jar natview.jar
7.3.1.3 Displaying new AMC boards
The images of the detected AMC boards are not hardcoded into NatView. They reside in the
subdirectory images below the application root directory. For every supported AMC board
NatView expects two JPEG images, one for vertical aligned boards, and one for horizontal
aligned ones. See the following table for details:
Alignment Filename Width Height Format
Horizontal l_.jpg (see Note) 110 42 JPG
Vertical p_