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Appendix D
Sharing the Serial Port with additional Business Units
An additional Business Unit that creates Alarm data to be sent to Automation using an
already configured and assigned Serial Port must be linked to the Business Unit
originally setup to use that specific serial port.
When creating an additional Business Unit, do not select the Alarm Automation System
checkbox in the create Business Unit screen. After configuring the new Business Unit as
described in section 7, follow the steps below to direct the alarm automation output of the
newly created Business Unit to the original Business Unit that was originally assigned the
Automation serial port.
Use the Modify Business Unit function to review the settings and verify that the Serial
Device Name and Heartbeat Signal Frequency fields under the Serial Port Parameters
section are blank. The Receiver Number can be set different or the same for each new
Business Unit up to 15 numbers (1-9 and A-F) are available. 0 is not an available option.
Alpha letters except A-F are not available choices.
Note 1:
In the commands below, replace
(secondBU)
with the actual case sensitive name
used to create the additional Business Unit without the parentheses.
Note 2:
In the commands below replace
(firstBU)
with the actual case sensitive name
used to create the first or original Business Unit without the parentheses.
1.
Select or start a Konsole shell window.
2.
Change to the directory that contains the configuration files.
From the Konsole Shell, enter the following command:
cd /usr/local/aes/cfg<Enter>
3.
Type
ls<Enter>
to get a list of the configuration files in the directory. Confirm
the case sensitive names of the files that are listed in the following steps.
4.
The following steps are used to modify an existing or create the file for the new
Business Unit with the information needed to direct Alarm Automation output to
the Business Unit that was first created to control the Alarm Automation ports,
5.
To append or create the new Business Unit’s, file enter the following command:
cat >> ipctrl.
(secondBU)
.cfg<Enter>
6.
To add the instruction for directing alarm output allowing the sharing of the serial
port, carefully type the following, replacing
(firstBU) with the c
ase sensitive
name used to create the first or original Business Unit:
deliverBU=
(firstBU)
<Enter>
7.
To close the file and exit the utility type the following character combination:
<Ctrl> + C
8.
At the command prompt of the Konsole terminal, enter the following command:
chmod 777 ipctrl.
(secondBU)
.cfg<Enter>
