CAD Installation Notes

Crimestar CAD should be installed in the same folder or directory where Crimestar RMS has been installed.  Since Crimestar CAD interacts with the same database used for RMS, it uses the same path specification defined in the Crimestar INI file.  For the Professional edition of CAD it uses the “DATAPATH=” entry.  For the Enterprise version it uses the “SQL_NAME_IP=” entry in the Crimestar.INI file, in order to locate the Crimestar database.

If you install the Crimestar CAD software to a separate folder, another copy of the crimestar.ini file will be installed there.  Be sure to set the DATAPATH= or SQL_NAME_IP= setting of the Crimestar INI file so the software will know where to find the Crimestar RMS database.  Since the CAD software both reads from and writes to the database tables it is critical that your Windows operating system user login (if used), have at least read and write privileges to the database and its files.

IMPORTANT: Crimestar CAD uses TCP/IP-UDP broadcast messages (also known as data-grams) to alert other CAD network workstations of new event or status activity.  As such, machines running Crimestar CAD should have the TCP/IP network protocol loaded and all CAD workstations should be addressed within the same network segment (or class C address range).  

In other words the address used in the Class A, Class B, and Class C address blocks should be the same ( ClassA.ClassB.ClassC.ClassD ) for each computer running CAD.  

Example: 192.168.1.5

192.168.1.42

192.168.1.190

192.168.1.203

etc.

Additionally; if a router or firewall is in place on the network it should allow for the passage of TCP/UDP traffic on port 333.  This is the port Crimestar CAD Workstations use to send the UDP broadcast messages to other workstations.  This is also the port that the E911 Interface controller uses to notify a CAD workstation of E911 ALI/ANI data.

If the optional Map Status monitor is used, be sure that the pwstreet.ini file, located in the Windows folder of your computer, properly references the location of the map files.  By default the map files are installed in a subfolder of the installation directory called “MAPS”.  The pwstreet.ini file entries for a default CAD installation are as follows:

BASEPATH=c:\crimestar\maps

CELLDATA=c:\crimestar\maps