BC|Commander Overview

Connecting BC Commander to your Mesh Network

IP Address • What you need to do

Firewall • The Firewall Gotcha

Manually Add • Manually adding a Breadcrumb to

BreadCrumbs BC Commander

Default User Accounts

and Passwords
• The default user accounts

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 Be Aware

BREADCRUMBS HAVE
DEFAULT IP ADDRESS
OF 10.x.y.1,
255.0.0.0 SUBNET

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 CHANGE IP TO 10.X.Y.Z ADDRESS
DO NOT USE A 1 IN THE LAST OCCTET
SET SUBNET TO 255.0.0.0

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Firewalls

MAKE SURE ALL FIREWALLS ARE

DISABLED OR AN EXCEPTION IS
ADDED.
WITHOUT AN ADDED EXCEPTION
FIREWALLS WILL BLOCK BC
COMMANDER DISCOVERY ARP

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 DEFAULT CREDENTIALS
USER PASSWORD
admin breadcrumb-admin
co breadcrumb-co
view breadcrumb-view

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 BREADCRUMBS CAN ALSO BE ADDED
MANUALLY. GET IP ADDRESS OF
BREADCRUMBS BY “ARP REQUEST”,
OR FROM SERIAL NUMBER

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 ARP FOR A BREADCRUMB IP
ADDRESS USING A COMMAND
PROMPT. MAY REQUIRE ADMIN
RIGHTS. USE THE COMMAND arp -a

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 ARP REQUEST

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 IP ADDRESSES OF
“10.x.y.z” ARE
BREADCRUMBS

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 IP ADDRESSES CAN
ALSO BE OBTAINED
FROM SERIAL NUMBER

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 ADD IP ADDRESS OF
BREADCRUMB

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 IF BREADCRUMB ICONS ARE PINGABLE,
BUT DO NOT APPEAR, CLOSE DOWN
BC|COMMANDER, AND RESTART. BE SURE
LOGIN PASSWORD IS TYPED IN CORRECTLY
Show Password is available as of 11.19 F.W.

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 ADDING BREADCRUMBS
IPv6 ADDRESS CAN ALSO
BE ATTEMPTED

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FEATURES

New Tabs Preferences

USB Flash Manager Analyze

Exporting to .kml files Saving and opening Snapshots

View Options

Instamesh Trace

Help Options

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 SELECT “FILE” → “NEW TAB”. NEW TABS ALLOW FOR
COMPLETELY SEPARATE VIEWS AND FILTERS OF THE
SAME NETWORK.

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 v11.13.1

TOGGLE BETWEEN TABS TO

CHANGE VIEWS

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 THE USB FLASH MANAGER IS
(AND SHOULD BE) USED FOR
PREPARRING USB
SELECT THEDRIVES FOR
USB DRIVE THAT IS TOO
USB
BE FIRMWARE UPGRADES
PREPPARED. THE FIRMWARE FILE SHOULD BE
STORED ON THE COMPUTER THAT IS RUNNING
BC|COMMANDER

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 SAVES THE CURRENT MESH AS A .KML FILE
WHICH SHOWS BREADCRUMB LOCATIONS AND
CORRESPONDING NOISE AT EACH LOCATION
WHEN LOADED INTO GOOGLE EARTH.

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 OPENS SNAPSHOTS AND DISPLAYS
THEM AS VIRTUAL NETWORKS ON
BC|COMMANDER

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 “SAVE SNAPSHOT AS...“ COLLECTS INFORMATION FROM
THE SELECTED BREADCRUMBS AND THE MESH NETWORK
FOR ANALYSIS AND ADVANCED TROUBLESHOOTING BY
RAJANT CORPORATION

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 WHEN THE “HIDE SINGLE TAB” OPTION IS CHECKED,
TEXT
ANDENTERED
THERE IS HERE
ONLY BEHAVES
ONE ACTIVEEXACTLEY ASTABS,
TAB, THE IF IT
WERE PASSED
INCLUDING THEDIRECTLY
NEW TABTO(+)
THE APPLICATION
ARE LINE
NOT DISPLAYED,
MEANING THE MAIN VIEW CAN BE LARGER. THIS CAN
BE USEFUL ON A LAPTOP OR PC WITH A SMALL
SCREEN. BC|COMMANDER MUST BE RESTARTED
IN ORDER FOR A CHANGE TO TAKE EFFECT.

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 UNITS OF MEASUREMENT FOR SYSTEM. IMPERIAL AND
METRIC. CHOICE OF GPS FORMAT.

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SELECT “FILE EDITOR” TO BROWSE FOR THE NAME OF THE EDITOR DESIRED TO USE
WHEN VIEWING BREADCRUMB LOGS. LEAVE EMPTY TO LET BC|COMMANDER
ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE THE DEFAULT FILE EDITOR FOR YOUR ENVIRONMENT.
SELECT “RUN FILE EDITOR IN TERMINAL”, IF DESIRED, THEN BROWSE FOR THE NAME
OF THE TERMINAL IN WHICH TO LAUNCH THE FILE EDITOR, IF ENABLED (SUCH AS
XTERM
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OR GNOME-TERMINAL).
 EDIT COLOR OF GRAPHICS IN
“HIGHLIGHTING”

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 AS OF FW v11.7.0 OR HIGHER EACH BREADCRUMB
TO BE “LOCKED” TO A COUNTRY FOR REGULATORY
COMPLIANCE

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 CONTROL WHICH ALERTS
TO BE DISPLAYED, OR NOT
TO BE DISPLAYED.

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 TYPE IN KNOWN IP ADDRESSES OF BREADCRUMBS.
DOING AN “ARP REQUEST” WILL GIVE LIST OF
BREADCRUMBS’ IP ADDRESSES ON NETWORK

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 SET PREFERENCES FOR
CONFIRMATION DIALOGS

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 SET PREFERENCES FOR
GRAPHICS

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 SET PREFERENCES FOR
FRAME RATES

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 SET MORE
PREFERENCES FOR
GRAPHICS
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 SET PREFERENCES FOR LINK STATISTICS (DEFINE
“BEST”, “WORSE”, ETC.)

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 SET GUARD BAND FOR WHAT IS
TO BE CONSIDERED FREQUENCY
OVERLAP. THIS SHOULD BE AT
LEAST 5MHz

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 FREQUENCY OVERLAP WILL
NOTIFY OF CHANNELS THAT ARE
TOO CLOSELY SPACED.

5GHz

149 151 153 155 157 159 161 163 165

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 LIST OF DISPLAY
OPTIONS FOR
TABLE-VIEW
COLUMNS

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 CUSTOMIZE
BC|COMMANDER
SCREEN

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 BCAPI EXPLORER VIEW SHOWS RAW BCAPI DATA. THIS
CAN BE HELPFUL FOR VIEWING INFORMATION THAT
Expanded
BC|COMMANDER DOES NOT OTHERWISE DISPLAY AND
FOR DEVELOPING ALTERNATIVE BCAPI CLIENT
APPLICATIONS.

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 SAVE CUSTOMIZED
LAYOUTS (TABS,
FILTERS, ETC.)

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 VIEW FREQUENCY
OVERLAP

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 VIEW LINK
STATISTICS

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 VIEW CONSISTENCY OF
SETTINGS

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 VIEW NOISE
ANALYSIS

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 VIEW
ALERTS

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 VIEW TASKS

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 v11.22.1

START

FINISH

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 PROGRESS
INDICATED

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CHECKS RAJANT SUPPORT
FOR UPDATES TO BC
COMMANDER AND
FIRMWARE. MUST BE
CONNECTED TO INTERNET
AND NETWORK FOR
FIRMWARE.

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 QUESTIONS?

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