Configuration types

When first starting the Trimble 4D Control Server system, its Container(s) is/are empty - they hold no modules. Trimble 4D Control Server, therefore, automatically comes up with the Default system configuration. After having logged on with the Trimble 4D Control Server UI, you will set up your system adding modules that provide the software functionalities.

Once you have configured your Trimble 4D Control Server system with all required modules, save the system configuration with the File > Save System Configuration as main menu command. The Save System Configuration dialog lets you enter a new configuration name. Also, when you terminate the Trimble 4D Control Server UI after changes to the configuration were made, you are asked if you want to save the current system configuration.

Trimble 4D Control Server supports the management of several system configurations, such as saving, (un-)loading, and deleting configurations, by using the File menu or the File toolbar.

Warning - It is highly recommended to save system configurations manually after you have made changes to them. Since the Trimble 4D Control Server UI and the processes in Trimble 4D Control Server are strictly separated, it may occur that the Trimble 4D Control Server UI cannot perceive that changes have been made. This may happen, for example, if you close the Trimble 4D Control Server UI without saving changes to the current system configuration, and then re-open it, while the services have not stopped running. When you now stop the Trimble 4D Control Server UI again without further changes to the system configuration, the Trimble 4D Control Server UI does not know that changes have been made previously.

System configurations are stored at the computer where the Containers run, whose module setups have been changed. That means that in a distributed system parts of the same system configurations may be stored on different computers, thus ensuring that for each Container the matching information is available. When loading a system configuration its fractions are shown as one, of course.

System configuration handling is subject to the user rights level. Users with level 1 (guest) are not allowed to change system configurations. The last active system configuration will appear without any further notification.

Tip - System configurations do not contain any system properties. Instead, Trimble 4D Control Server globally considers the system properties, such as station information, leap seconds and the time-dependent transformation equations between the coordinate system ITRF2008, which is used for GPS satellite orbits, and regional coordinate systems. You select a datum once for any of the receiver modules in any system configuration. Then, the new ITRF base transformation is used for all reference positions in all Trimble 4D Control Server configurations of this system.

When inserting a module, a Configuration tab appears at each module's Properties dialog. Use the Configuration tab to add, select and delete module configurations. Each configuration stores all information you need to successfully run the module. Different configurations, of course, may store different values, for example for testing.

Note - Whenever you change and apply the properties of a running module, they are immediately saved in the module configuration. So in this case you do not need to select one of the saving commands from the File menu or toolbar, as these would only store the current Trimble 4D Control Server system configuration.

The currently loaded module configuration appears behind the name of the module.

Typically, you cannot select a module configuration already used in another module of the same type, as long as you are setting up modules in a specific Trimble 4D Control Server configuration. Configurations, which are already in use are grayed out in the list of configurations.

Warning - Changing the properties of a module configuration affects all Trimble 4D Control Server configurations containing a module with this configuration.