Installation Notes

* Do not try to shortcut the installation by copying files from one computer to another.  The MDC setup program installs and registers certain DLL and OCX controls on your computer that will not be transferred as part of a routine file copy process.

Accessing the Crimestar Database: The Professional edition of Crimestar CAD uses the “DATAPATH=” entry of the Crimestar INI file.  The Enterprise edition of CAD uses the “SQL_NAME_IP=” entry in the Crimestar.INI file.  The MDC Controller will need to access the same database.  Therefore, the same INI file entries should be provided or set on the computer functioning as the MDC Controller.

IMPORTANT: Crimestar MDC 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, the machine running as the Crimestar MDC Controller should have the TCP/IP network protocol loaded and 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 ) as each computer running CAD.  

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 and port 777.  These ports are used by the MDC Controller to send the UDP broadcast messages to CAD workstations (Port #333)  and to communicate between the MDC Controller and the MDC field units (Port #777).

• Map Files Installed / Configuration

The Crimestar MDC software distributes with the basic mapping controls and components but not with street level map files that you will need for detail map displays.  To obtain street level map files for your specific state (or states) visit the Crimestar web site download page at www.crimestar.com, download the map files desired and install those files into the \maps folder of the MDC installation directory.

The mapping portion of the software references a file called “pwstreet.ini”.  This file is installed into the WINDOWS directory of your computer.  The pwstreet.ini file contains the following entries:

BasePath=c:\crimestar\maps
CellData= c:\crimestar\maps

Make sure that the path reference in these entries properly points to the location of your map files, if those files have been installed to a different location than the default.