Resonate Device Initializer and Initializing the RFID Readers

Resonate RFID Reader Management 2.1 Software Installation Guide

After installing Resonate RFID Reader Management, you must run the Resonate Device Initializer utility on a Windows machine to initialize the readers; this also installs the Resonate Agent on the readers. The utility is separate from Resonate so that it can run locally on the same network segment as the readers for discovery purposes.

Resonate Device Initializer supports two device onboarding modes:

Discovery-based mode: Resonate Device Initializer automatically discovers all supported RFID readers on the same subnet. In this case, you must run the utility onsite and on the same subnet as your RFID readers.

File-based mode:

Resonate Device Initializer

, used together with the Device Migrator utility, allows you to add a specified list of RFID readers to

Resonate

for management. You use the Device Migrator utility to add site and reader information into Resonate; then, you use Resonate Device Initializer to load Resonate Agent onto each reader and transfer control to it. You can run the utilities from any Windows machine, provided there is network access to the RFID readers.

Both the Resonate Device Initializer utility and the Device Migrator utility are self-contained executables (

rm-device-initializer-<VERSION>.exe

and

rm-device-migrator-<VERSION>.exe

) without an installer. It is distributed in the

resonate-<VERSION>.tar.gz

file that you received from Zebra.

Resonate requires a fresh installation and device initialization.

For information on how to use the utility, refer to the Resonate RFID Reader Management User Guide.