Chapter 4: Creating A Virtual Sensor - Black Box AlertWerks AW3000 User Manual

CHAPTER 4: CREATING A VIRTUAL SENSOR

4.1 CREATING VIRTUAL SENSORS
4.1.1 PROCEDURE TO CREATE VIRTUAL SENSOR
To create a virtual sensor:
Go to Webpage Sensors from the top left menu.
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Click on Create New Virtual sensor, which is the last entry at the left edge on that page.
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NOTE: If you can't see that entry and there is a message about a "BeenLate" factor, see 11.1.9, which discusses
the "BeenLate" factor.
On the pop-up window, select the method used. Explanations of methods appear later in this manual. To get
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started, select PING, and then click on Next step.
The content of the window changes, and AW3000 needs to know the interval in seconds and the IP Address or the
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DNS Name to ping. To explain the process, we will enter 127.0.0.1 for the IP Address, thereby pinging the unit itself.
Change the interval to 5 seconds.
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Click on Create.
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FIGURE 4-1: SELECTING METHOD TYPE
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