Version 1.0 Release and Support Statement

Thank you for looking at QVS InSight and considering using the product in your labs and stores or using it as part of your own offering to retailers.    We intend to work with our initial customers to finalize the function list for release 1.0 of the product and be ready for pilot and rollout early in 2006.

Please send any problems, questions, and suggestions to InSightSupport@qvssoftware.com.  If you are having problems, please provide details including hardware types and software levels.

 

Version 1.0 Feature Status

 

Current pre-beta release: 0.99.0.20    

Ready

Next Ready

Not Ready

 

Devices Supported:

Ø      2x20 Displays

Ø      Keyboard

Ø      Manager Key Lock

Ø      Tone

Ø      Vdisplay

Ø      Cash Drawer

Ø      4610 CR printer

Ø      Mod 2/3/4 CR printer

Ø      50 key keyboard

Ø      4693 50 keyboard

Ø      4693 Anpos keyboard

Ø      Scanner

Ø      Scale

 

MIB Features:

Ø       Major branches for Store, Controller, Terminal

Ø       Detailed terminal base unit, device and configuration information including EC level, serial number.

Ø       Terminal I/O monitoring and remote control: setup, incoming device event table, outbound device (keyboard) event send

Ø       Terminal control functions: stop terminal application, load diagnostics, dump terminal, start terminal application

Ø       Multi-terminal monitoring

Ø       Controller and Terminal ‘real-time’ information such as memory, disk, cpu use.

Ø       Terminal device event histories (e.g. last 50 print lines, last 50 keystrokes)

Ø       Keyboard layouts and labeling

Ø       4610 printer serial number and statistics

Ø       Snapshot terminal dump/retrieve dump analysis information

Ø       Terminal device use and adverse event histories and statistics

Ø       CPU use histories

 

 

Monitoring and control features:

Ø      Terminal Application control (remote keystrokes)

Ø      Terminal System Control (remote s1/s2 system keystrokes)

 

Security features:

Ø      Session login

Ø      Don’t let remote user open the cash drawer

Ø      IDA data encryption

Ø      Keep InSight Client activity log on controller

 

Supported 4690 OS levels

Ø      4690 V3R3

Ø      4690 V2R4

Ø      4690 V4R1

 

Controller Agent Features:

Ø      InSight Direct Access

Ø      Multiple concurrent sessions

Ø      4690 version

Ø      CSF version

Ø      Hidden background task

Ø      Multiple controller support (‘Store View’)

Ø      Automated terminal dump monitoring and extraction/logging of InSight information

Ø      Automated 4690 OS update detection and terminal load shrink image prep for InSight

 

Supported terminals:

Ø      4693

Ø      4694

Ø      SurePos

Ø      4690 OS terminals (V3R3)

Ø      4690 OS Controller/Terminal

Ø      4690 OS mod1 of mod1/mod2 pair

Ø      4690 OS mod1/mod2 pairs

Ø      4683

Ø      TS terminals

Ø      TC terminals

Ø      Multi-app terminals (3270)

Ø      Loop attached terminals

Ø      Lan attached terminals (wired or wireless)

 

API Versions/Features:

Ø      Documentation

Ø      Windows Desktop

Ø      Direct Interface APIs

Ø      Low-level get, get-next, get-bulk, set functions

Ø      Multicast find all controllers function

Ø      Sample programs (termview, mibwalk)

Ø      32-bit 4690

Ø      16-bit 4690

Ø      PocketPC/ARM

Ø      PocketPC/MIPs

Ø      Palm

Ø      Java

Ø      Higher level functions

 

Terminal device i/o history:

Ø      In-memory

Ø      Keep on controller

Ø      Extract from terminal dump

 

Terminal Information

Ø      Terminal Model/Type

Ø      CPU type/speed

Ø      Current application

Ø      Current available memory

Ø      Total memory

Ø      4610 microcode level

Ø      VPD info

Ø      Hard drive info

Ø      RAM disk info

Ø      CPU utilization

 

Product installation features:

Ø      Single step self-extracting install or update with (insighti.286)

Ø      4690OS or CSF

Ø      Automatic update of all 4690 configuration files (can be disabled)

Ø      No reboot required

Ø      4690 ASM product control file and compatibility

Ø      Automatic install on all controllers including inactive controllers

 

Terminal agent features:

Ø      Automatic load when 4690 OS loads

Ø      W008 block counting

Ø      Small version

 

 

Desktop UI Features:

Ø      Monitor single terminal

Ø      Terminal remote control

Ø      Terminal information display

Ø      Controller information display

Ø      Store information display

Ø      View all active terminals

Ø      Query terminal device history

Ø      Logging feature (log terminal i/o to file for later review)

Ø      Display lists of online, offline, defined terminals

Ø      Stop terminal application

Ø      Multiple concurrent GUIs

Ø      Start default terminal application

Ø      Dump terminal

Ø      Request terminal snapshot dump

Ø      View terminal dump device history

Ø      Terminal 4960 system log view

Ø      Start alternate terminal application

Ø      Help screens

 

 

4690 Controller Utilities:

Ø      Insighti.286 – single step install

Ø      Insightu.286 – single step uninstall

Ø      Insight.286 – status, enable, disable, terminal prep

Ø      TermView.286

 

 

Last Updated: May 22, 2006