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A Sierra Monitor Company Driver Manual (Supplement to the FieldServer Instruction Manual) FS-8700-52 Notifier AM6000 APPLICABILITY & EFFECTIVITY Effective for all systems manufactured after May 1, 2001 Instruction Manual Part Number FS-8700-52 5/22/2002...
Driver Manual 1. Notifier AM6000 Description The Notifier AM6000 driver is a seial driver. It allows the FieldServer to transfer data from a Notifier AM6000 panel over either RS232 or RS485 using Notifier AM6000 protocol. There are eight RS232 and two RS485 ports standard on the FieldServer.
This section documents and describes the parameters necessary for configuring the FieldServer to communicate with a Notifier AM6000 Server. The configuration file tells the FieldServer about its interfaces, and the routing of data required. In order to enable the FieldServer for Notifier AM6000 communications, the driver independent FieldServer buffers need to be declared in the “Data Arrays”...
Example Client Side Nodes Nodes Node_Name, Protocol, Panel1, AM6000, FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court, Milpitas, California 95035 (408) 262-2299 fax: (408) 262-9042 Visit our website: www.fieldserver.com Function Specify which port the device is connected to the FieldServer Specify baud rate...
Tells the driver which debug message to send. This parameter is for use by FieldServer Technologies only. FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court, Milpitas, California 95035 (408) 262-2299 fax: (408) 262-9042 Visit our website: www.fieldserver.com Function Name of this Map Descriptor...
'node_a' and thus connects the map descriptor to a port. FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court, Milpitas, California 95035 (408) 262-2299 fax: (408) 262-9042 Visit our website: www.fieldserver.com Driver Manual The range of device address is determined by this parameter.
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5 (this example) will be set to 1. FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court, Milpitas, California 95035 (408) 262-2299 fax: (408) 262-9042 Visit our website: www.fieldserver.com Driver Manual When a Block...
Make sure the length parameter is set to at least 50. Catch-all The use of this keyword is described in section 5.2 FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court, Milpitas, California 95035 (408) 262-2299 fax: (408) 262-9042 Visit our website: www.fieldserver.com E-mail: support@fieldserver.com...
The Data_Array_Location and Length parameters are used to determine what portion of the associated data array must be set to zero. 5.1.4 AM6000_Simulation This keyword is for used by FieldServer Technologies Engineers and is used for testing this driver. FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court, Milpitas, California 95035 (408) 262-2299 fax: (408) 262-9042 Visit our website: www.fieldserver.com...
82. FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court, Milpitas, California 95035 (408) 262-2299 fax: (408) 262-9042 Visit our website: www.fieldserver.com This indicates the number of times a 'Block Ack' or 'System Reset' message have been applied.
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It may be the case that the equipment manufacturer adds new features to the protocol. FieldServer Technologies needs to be informed of any such messages so that this driver can be updated.
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Thus, even though a message has been ignored you system will know about it. FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court, Milpitas, California 95035 (408) 262-2299 fax: (408) 262-9042 Visit our website: www.fieldserver.com E-mail: support@fieldserver.com...