Introducing the Site Prep Tool

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Introducing the Site Prep Tool

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REVISION HISTORY

Date Revision Changes

January 2009 01.01 Initial Revision

August 2009 02.01 Update to reflect changes to _{Site Prep Tool rev. A.02.01}

November 2010 03.00 Update to reflect changes to Site Prep Tool rev. A.03.00.

Octember 2012 03.00.022

Updated to reflect changes to Site Prep Tool rev A.03..00.22

March 2013 03.00.026

Updated to reflect changes to Site Prep Tool rev A.03.00.26

June 2013 03.00.027

August 2013 03.00.028

December 2013 03.10.002

April 2014 03.10.011

August 2015 A.03.20.006

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INTRODUCTION

The site prep tool is a small application that is designed to run on the customer PC with the purpose of evaluating the system and determine if it meets the necessary hardware and software requirements before installing any Agilent LSCA software products like ChemStation or EZChrom.

The tool is a self-contained package that should not interact or interfere with the operation of any other customer applications, however, the tool does require that .NET framework 2.0 be

installed.

SUPPORTED LSCA SOFTWARE MATRIX

SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS

The tool has been tested and verified to work using the following operating systems:

Supported OS Supported Not Supported

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 X

Windows XP Pro X

Windows Vista (32Bit) X

Windows 7 Pro (32Bit) X

Windows 7 Pro (64Bit) X

Windows 95 X

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DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL

The Site Prep Tool can be downloaded from the following web site:

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The downloaded file will be in the form of a Self-Extracting executable that will automatically extract the application files and start the program. Simply double-click on the executable, select the “Install” button on the UI and the contents will be unzipped to a folder on the hard drive (default is C:\SitePrep Tool) or it can unzipped to a USB drive if the tool will be used to evaluate multiple systems.

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USING THE TOOL

Once extracted, Site Prep Tool is ready to start. Click on the down-arrow and select the Agilent software to be installed on the system. Once selected click the “OK” key.

The system details form will be shown, here we can enter the name of the organization and contact information. Click the Start button (Circled) to start the discovery process or select

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In the example below we can see the information gathered by the tool together with the expected results.

The tool can automatically detect most PC components, however, it may not be able to determine if they are appropriate for the software being installed. Therefore, any item that cannot be

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A failed status will be highlighted in red.

Often a failed status may simply require a change in the software configuration setting. In the example below the Firewall was not enabled and therefore the security details failed. A simple firewall configuration change can be done in the operating system in order to meet Agilent requirements.

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SAVING THE REPORT

The generated report can be saved as a PDF file by simply clicking on the “floppy disk” icon or by selecting GoSave Report and select a location to store the report, the default location is

x:\SitePrep Tool. The final report can be used by an Agilent representative to help the customer

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To re-run the Site Prep Tool after exiting the program go to X:\SitePrep Tool\SitePrepStartExe where X is the drive where the Site Prep tool folder is located.

Introducing the Site Prep Tool