Configuring The Fieldserver As A Notifier Nca2/Nfs2-3030 Client; Panel Status - Memory Mapping - SMC Networks FieldServer FS-8700-130 Driver Manual

5 CONFIGURING THE FIELDSERVER AS A NOTIFIER NCA2/NFS2-3030
CLIENT
The configuration file tells the FieldServer about its interfaces, and the routing of data required. In order
to enable the FieldServer for Notifier NCA2/NFS2-3030 communications, the driver independent
FieldServer buffers need to be declared in the "Data Arrays" section, the destination device addresses
need to be declared in the "Client Side Nodes" section, and the required data from Notifier Panels needs
to be mapped in the "Client Side Map Descriptors" section. Details on how to do this can be found below.
Note that in the tables, * indicates an optional parameter, with the bold legal value being the default.
For a detailed discussion on FieldServer configuration, please refer to the FieldServer Configuration
Manual. The information that follows describes how to expand upon the factory defaults provided in the
configuration files included with the FieldServer (See ".csv" sample files provided with the FieldServer).
This section documents and describes the parameters necessary for configuring the FieldServer to
receive information from a Notifier Panel.
5.1

Panel Status - Memory Mapping

The primary purpose of this driver is to record the status of devices connected to the Notifier panel by
interpreting the text messages sent to the printer or CRT port. Not all messages will be interpreted, as
many messages do not directly pertain to device status, or are not currently supported. The following
subset of event messages is recognized:
Active Events:
FIRE ALARM
SECURITY ALARM (LIFE)
LIFE CRITICAL ALARM
MEDICAL EMERGENCY
SECURITY ALARM
CRITICAL PROCESS
SUPERVISORY
TROUBLE/ FAULT
DISABLED
PREALARM
ACTIVE
ON/ OFF
This Driver divides the memory into various types. Each location in each memory type is assigned an
address. It is therefore possible to map an address to a particular offset in a Data Array and make it
accessible for reading by other connected devices. The address structure is provided in Table 1.
Most of these addresses will only contain binary information to represent an active or inactive state.
Where multiple troubles are associated with a single device the addressed register corresponding to that
device will be incremented as a counter for each trouble message and decremented when a trouble is
cleared. These addresses should preferably be stored in SINT16 format in the Data Array.
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