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The frequencies you can select are:
5, 10, 15, or 30 minutes
1, 6, 12 or 24 hours
Weekly (with options for when the week starts), or monthly.
The scheduler will perform the following actions:
1.
Wait until it is time for another report. (e.g. for 15 minute reports, wait until a little before 0,
15, 30, or 45 minutes past the hour. The report may be ready a little before these times, for
example if the sampling interval for this data was 1 minute, the report for 12:00-12:15 would
contain data for times up to 12:14, because the data for 12:15 would be included in the next
report. )
2.
Check that all the data for this report has been received by this device. For C2i data from
EnCompass
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devices, this may take another few minutes, or considerably longer if your
network has communication problems, in which case keep checking until the data is ready. For
data from Modbus devices, there is no need to keep waiting.
3.
Build the CSV file, naming it as defined by the user, with a suffix in the filename to show the
times it relates to, and check that it can be emailed to the specified address(es) and / or
uploaded to the specified FTP server. If it can then do so. If it cannot due to problems with the
internet connection, keep checking until the internet connection is OK.
As described immediately above, sometimes the scheduler has to wait until a report can be sent. If
enough time elapses such that more reports of this definition would be ready to send, then it groups
all the necessary reports as one longer one, rather than sending multiple reports at the same time.
6.4.4 - Scheduling CSV file reports
To schedule a report, open the
Configuration
folder and then the
CSV
Reports
folder, then click
New
.
Use the check boxes for device and input type to select which combination of devices and input types
you are interested in. Then enter values for the following fields:
You can run an instant test of the settings once they are saved.
•
Report ID
: An ID to use to refer to these particular settings for automatic reporting.
•
Frequency
: See section above.
•
Filename: Maximum 28 characters. It will be appended with the date and .csv file extension. As
well as alphanumeric characters, you can use the underscore and dash characters.
Email Settings
(If email is to be used):
•
Email to
: An email address, or more than one, separated with commas.
•
Email From
: An email address to appear as the sender address. To reduce risk of emails being put
in a spam folder the domain name of this address should be that of your SMTP server (see below).
•
Email Subject
: Enter a subject if you want emails to be sent with a subject line different from the
csv filename.
•
SMTP Server
: Server name for SMPT (Simple Mail Transport Protocol). The device does not
function as a mail sending server so you must use an external one which this device must be able
to access.
