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LED Status
- This is the Status for
All ASCII
or the specific ASCII device selected.
1)
Solid Green (Connected)
–
The gateway is receiving/transmitting data within the Inactivity period for
all of the ASCII devices that are configured and enabled.
2)
Flashing Green (Not Connected/First Time Scan)
–
Start up state. No messages have been received
or transmitted, but port is connected.
3)
Flashing Red (Connection Timeout)
–
The only way to get out of this state is with a valid received
message.
a.
Data has been discarded due to the queue being full.
b.
Data has not been received/transmitted within the Inactivity period.
c.
Port not opened.
d.
Message parsing has failed.
Variables
- These are the values for
All ASCII
or the ASCII device selected.
Successful Transmit Count:
-Number of Messages that the gateway has transmitted to the ASCII device
Successful Receive Count:
-Number of Complete Messages that the gateway has received from the ASCII device
Received due to Length:
-Number of Messages Completed due to the Max Message Length being reached
Received due to Delimiters:
-Number of Messages Completed due to the Start or End Delimiters being seen
Received due to Timeout:
-Number of Messages Completed due to the Receive Character Timeout being reached
Received but Discarded:
-Number of Messages that are Complete but discarded due to the Queue being full
-Change the Gateway Hold Msg Timeout to be less than what you currently have set
Successful Parsed Messages:
-Number of Messages that are Complete and have been successfully parsed
Failed Parsed Messages:
-Number of Messages that are Complete but have not been parsed successfully
Status Strings
-
These are the values for
All ASCII
or the ASCII device selected.
Queued Messages:
-The Gateway will hold up to 20 (configurable) complete messages to send to the other protocol
-This will only increment if the Gateway Hold Msg Timeout is non-zero and messages are being
received faster than we can send to the other protocol
Last Parsed Error:
-Last parsed error the gateway encountered
Common Error Messages:
1)
Number of Fields Invalid:
The total number of parsed fields is greater than the number of fields the
gateway was expecting
2)
Discard:
The Field has been discarded
3)
Invalid Length for Field:
Number of characters parsed is greater than the number of characters that
the gateway is expecting
4)
Calculated Length of Data exceeds 255 Characters:
Number of characters parsed within a field
exceeds 255 characters