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FS-8700-40 SBT FSI Driver Manual Table of Contents
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1 SBT-FSI Description ........................................................................................................................................ 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS
2 Driver Scope of Supply ................................................................................................................................... 3
2.1 Supplied by FieldServer Technologies for this driver ..................................................................................... 3
2.2 Provided by the Supplier of 3rd Party Equipment ......................................................................................... 3
2.2.1 Hardware ............................................................................................................................................... 3
2.2.2 Required 3
rd
Party Configuration ........................................................................................................... 3
3 Hardware Connections ................................................................................................................................... 4
3.1 Using the NIM-1R or NIM-1W for MXL .......................................................................................................... 4
3.2 FSI Connection Notes ..................................................................................................................................... 5
4 Configuring the FieldServer as a SBT-FSI Client ............................................................................................... 6
4.1 Data Arrays .................................................................................................................................................... 8
4.2 Client Side Connection Descriptions .............................................................................................................. 9
4.3 Client Side Node Descriptors ....................................................................................................................... 10
4.4 Client Side Map Descriptors......................................................................................................................... 10
4.4.1 FieldServer Related Map Descriptor Parameters ................................................................................. 10
4.4.2 Driver Related Map Descriptor Parameters ......................................................................................... 11
4.4.3 Timing Parameters ............................................................................................................................... 11
4.4.4 Map Descriptor example 1 - Monitoring a MXL/XLS Device for Events ............................................... 12
4.4.5 Map Descriptor example 2 – Monitoring Analog Loop Devices ........................................................... 14
5 Advanced Client Configuration – Using Bidirectional capability ................................................................... 15
6 Configuring the FieldServer as a SBT-FSI Server ............................................................................................ 16
6.1 Server Side Connection Descriptors ............................................................................................................ 17
6.2 Server Side Node Descriptors ...................................................................................................................... 18
6.3 Server Side Map Descriptors........................................................................................................................ 18
6.3.1 FieldServer Specific Map Descriptor Parameters ................................................................................. 18
6.3.2 Driver Specific Map Descriptor Parameters ......................................................................................... 19
6.3.3 Map Descriptor example 1 - Emulating a MXL/XLS device with events ............................................... 20
6.3.4 Map Descriptor example 2 - Emulating a MXL/XLS device with analogs ............................................. 21
Appendix A. Advanced Topics .............................................................................................................................. 22
Appendix A.1. Specifying a Poller Map Descriptor length ....................................................................................... 22
Appendix A.2. Interpreting Panel Error Messages ................................................................................................... 23
Appendix A.3. Obtaining Point Addresses from the panel report ........................................................................... 23
Appendix A.4. Using Trouble Codes ......................................................................................................................... 24
Appendix A.5. Activating and De-activating Entities ............................................................................................... 27
Appendix A.6. Arming and De-Arming Entities ........................................................................................................ 28