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Comtrol Utility
The Comtrol Utility Package is innovative software for serial port communication,
testing, monitoring and reporting for the RocketPort and RocketModem IV
families.
Note: The Comtrol Utility Package supports the DeviceMaster families but
typically customers prefer installing PortVision DX, which includes Port
Monitor and Test Terminal and is a powerful DeviceMaster configuration
and monitoring application.
This section includes the following topics:
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Installing the Comtrol Utility
Overview
The Comtrol Utility Package contains three useful software applications named
Test Terminal, Port Monitor, and Peer Tracer for communicating directly,
monitoring, and reporting statistics of any COM, RS-232, RS-422, and RS-485
serial ports you have installed in a system.
The Comtrol Utility Package supports the following operating systems:
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Windows 2000
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Windows XP
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Windows Server 2003
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Windows Vista
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Windows Server 2008
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Windows 7
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Windows Server 2012
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Windows 8
Locating the Comtrol Utility
The Comtrol Utility is available on the Software and Documentation CD or you
can download the latest version from:
ftp://ftp.comtrol.com/utilities/windows/
comtrol_utility
. The Comtrol Utility is an .msi file that automatically starts the
installation procedure.
The Comtrol Utility package includes the following applications that you can
access from the Comtrol Program group:
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Port Monitor (PMon2)
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Test Terminal (WCOM2)