This page allows the operator to monitor the communication between the
Master and the Slave, by displaying the Request PDU (Tx) and the Response PDU
(Rx) messages. When you first enter the page, the field meant to show the
messages is blank.
Press the
VIEW MSG
button to display the flow of messages. Once you press the
button, data throughput rate between the Master and the Slave starts appearing
on the screen. The messages are displayed in hexadecimal notation. After
pressing the
VIEW MSG
button, its descriptive label is replaced by the
HOLD
MSG
label. Press the
HOLD MSG
button to stop the flow of messages.
You can save the messages to a text file. As soon as you press the
SAVE TO FILE
button, the
Open the log file
dialog box appears on the screen: the operator
must type the .txt file name and specify the path where the file has to be
located. When you press the
OPEN
button to confirm, the dialog box closes and
the full path of the selected file is shown in the display box of the
Message
monitor
page. Now press the
START SAVING
button to start saving the
messages; the “File opened properly” message appears on the display box. After
pressing the
START SAVING
button, its descriptive label is replaced by
STOP
SAVING
label. Press the
STOP SAVING
button to stop saving the messages.
A box in the
Parameter
page offers a brief description of the communication
between the Master and the Slave, by displaying the Request PDU (Transmitted)
and the Response PDU (Received) messages. The fields in the box are meant to
show the number of transmitted messages, the number of received messages
and the errors:
Transmitted
= Request PDUs;
Received
= Response PDUs;
Errors
= Exception Response PDUs.
5.6 “Test Lika” page
Test Lika
page is reserved for use by Lika Electronic engineers and is not
accessible to users.
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