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6.54. (XATS) TAIP CONSOLE SNIFFER
6.54 (XATS) TAIP console Sniffer
Qualifiers :
S
,
R
Use this message to activate/deactivate the debugging tool that throws to
the serial port all of the TAIP console messages exchanged over any com-
munication media. This is useful to check the communication between an
IP-host software or Telephone and the unit.
When active, the unit sends any incoming/outgoing TAIP message to the
serial port preceded by a
XATS
response with a direction-of-message indi-
cator (I for Ingoing, O for Outgoing), the direction character is followed
by a dash and a number indicating the channel on which the message was
sent/received. The message has the following format:
A[-BBB]
Chars Item Format Value Meaning
1 Action/ Direc-
tion indicator A flag When using the
S
qualifier: Use ’1’ to activate
the sniff, ’0’ to deactivate
For
R
responses: ’I’ indicates that the following
displayed message was an incomming message.
’O’ indicates an outgoing message.
3 Channel BBB Communication channel: 001 to 015 indicate
Destination Points 00 to 14 respectively. 255
Indicates serial port and 254 indicates an inter-
nal messaged caused by an event action.
6.54.1 Example
Activate the TAIP sniffer:
>
SXATS1
<
Now, if the IP-type DP 03 (channel 004) sends a >
QGS00
< to the unit,
the unit will send to the serial port the following messages:
>
RXATSI-004
<>
QGS00
<>
RXATSO-004
<>
RGS00U
<
Notice the underlined indicators: They show that the incomming message
from channel 004 was
>
QGSS00
< and the outgoing message to the same
channel was >
RGS00U
< .
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