Common Tabs

Internal Tags Publishing Group

An integer ID (0-255) that can be used to map the included Comm Stat tags in this device to a publish schedule.

Include Active Items tag

Publishes the ActiveItems tag which is a count of the total number of tags on this device.

Include Barometer tag

Publishes the Barometer indicator.

Note: The communications barometer represents the marginal success rate of communications. For each poll cycle that does not receive a response for one or more poll messages, the barometer will increase by two (2), with a maximum value of 100. For each poll cycle that does receive a valid response for all poll messages, the barometer to decreases by 1, with the lowest value being 0. These barometer changes cause failures in communications to show up quickly as the barometer rises. However, good communications must be maintained longer and more steadily for the barometer to fall back to 0.

Include Comm Status tag

Publishes the CommStatus tag which represents the status of the communication link to the device. The value will be 1 if a communication link to the device can be established – even if the device does not respond to polls. The value will be 0 if a communication link cannot be established to the device.

Include Demand tag

Publishes the Demand tag which, when written to, will trigger an out of schedule poll of all tags on the device.

Include Incomplete Poll tag

Publishes the IncompletePoll tag which is set to false at the beginning of each poll. The value changes from false to true if the last poll attempt was incomplete.

Include Last Poll Attempt Time tag

Publishes the LastPollAttemptTime tag which is updated with the date time stamp of the last poll attempt in UTC (without time zone bias).

Include Last Poll Failure Code tag

Publishes the LastPollFailureCode tag which is updated with an integer value indicating the result of the last poll.

• 0 = Success

• 1 = No poll initiated

• 2 = Error opening connection

• 3 = Error during modem initialization

• 4 = Connection failed

• 5 = Line is busy

• 6 = No answer

• 7 = Connection was dropped

Include Last Poll Length tag

Publishes the LastPollLength tag which is updated with the length (in bytes) of the last poll message sent to a device.

Include Last Poll Success Time

Publishes the LastPollSuccessTime tag which is updated with the date time stamp of the last successful poll in UTC (without time zone bias).

Include Seconds Since Complete

Publishes the SecondsSinceComplete tag which is updated with the seconds since the last complete poll.

Logging

Logging from the perspective of this device object.

• Errors. When selected, protocol and operation errors are logged.

• Send messages. When selected, contents of poll request messages are logged.

• Receive messages. When selected, contents of complete responses (including errors) are displayed in the log viewer.

• Device and item activity. When selected, ACM will generate the appropriate log message when items or devices are removed, added, activated, or deactivated.

• Communication status changes. When selected, ACM will log whenever communication status changes from bad to good or vice-versa.

• Data values received from device. When selected, an item’s raw value, data type and quality will be logged after a poll that receives a good response or a poll that receives no response. The value will be in raw units.

• Data values sent to device. When selected, an item’s value will be logged when the publisher writes to an item, but before the write message is sent to the device. The value will be in raw units.

• Data values written by clients. When selected, an item’s value and data type will be logged when a publisher writes to an item, but before the write message is sent to the device. The value logged will be in engineering units.

• Data values sent to clients. When selected, an item’s data value, data type and quality will be logged after polling of such item is complete. This log is from host level. The value logged will be in engineering units (if it differs from the raw units used when writing the value to the device).

• Configuration changes. When selected, eACM will produce a log entry logging the configuration that was loaded on startup.

• Unsolicited messages from device. When selected, a message will be displayed when the device initiates a request to be polled (often called a report by exception).

• Items in messages. When selected, a message will be displayed when items are added or removed which changes the contents of poll request messages.

• Warnings. When selected, a warning will be logged when eACM detects a potential problem, eACM may continue requested processes.

• Suppress time sync detail. When selected, eACM will not log detailed messages pertaining to what is happening when a time sync occurs.

• Suppress write entries

Footprint Level

• None (Default). 

• Entry and Exit.  Logs basic trace information between modules. This allows eACM support personnel to troubleshoot potential problems.

• Entry, Exit, and Parameters. Logs trace information between modules, including parameters used in these functions.

Enable Time Sync

Check box to enable time synchronization.

Time Synchronization Configuration

Reference to TimeSync object configuration.

Time Sync Interval

Interval to check if time synchronization is required.

Time Sync Priority

Priority of time synchronization poll task.

Time Zone

Time zone to consider during time synchronization.