Asentria SiteBoss 571 UserManual
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SiteBoss 571 - Serial 1
A) Target Name [I/O 1]
B) Baud Rate [19200]
C) Data Format [8N1]
D) Handshaking [NONE]
E) Wrap Around [OFF]
F) Record Stamping
G) Character Masking [ON]
H) Data Alarm Enable [OFF]
I) Store Data To [1]
J) Store Alarms During Pass-Through [OFF]
K) Strip Sent Pass-Through LFs [OFF]
L) Strip Received Pass-Through LFs [OFF]
M) Normalize Received Pass-Through EOLs [OFF]
N) Multiline Record Settings [OFF]
O) Data Type [ASCII]
P) Change ETX to CR/LF [OFF]
Target Name
Set the name given to the device connected to the other end of each port. This field will accept up to 24
alphanumeric characters. The target name is used in event notifications. The default setting is I/O
n
.
Baud Rate
The Baud Rate option displays a selection menu for baud rates available for the port. These values range from
300 baud to 115200 baud. The default setting is 19200.
Data Format
The Data Format toggles settings for word length, parity, and stop bit settings. The available options are: 8N1,
7E1, 7O1, 7N1, and 8O2. Default setting is 8N1.
Handshaking
Handshaking toggles settings for how the port will handshake with the connected device. The available options
are:: NONE, XON/XOFF, BOTH, and DTR. The default setting is NONE.
Wrap Around
Wrap Around is an ON/OFF toggle to set whether the incoming data will wrap (overwrite) the oldest data in the file
should it become full. Default setting is OFF.
Record Stamping
This option displays a menu that allows you to select whether the Date/Time and/or the Site Name are pre-pended
to each incoming data string. The default setting for Date/Time Stamping and Site Name Stamping is OFF.
SiteBoss 571 - Serial 1 Record Stamping
A) Date/Time Stamping [OFF]
B) Site Name Stamping [OFF]
Character Masking
This is an ON/OFF toggle to enable the character mask. The character mask causes the unit to block most non-
printing ASCII characters. Specifically, the following ASCII character values are blocked: 0, 1, 4-9, 11, 12, 14-31,
and 128-255. The default setting is ON.
Data Alarm Enable
This option is an ON/OFF toggle to enable data event monitoring for this port. The default setting is OFF.
Store Data To
This selection displays a menu that toggles ON/OFF whether the data received on this port should be stored to
each of the available files or not. The file number that is the same number as the serial port number will be set to
ON by default and the other available options will be set to OFF.
