FS-8700-105_National_Time_and_Signal_FACP Manual

 

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Appendix A.5. Panel / Driver Synchronization

There is no automatic system of synchronizing the Fire Alarm Panels and the data in the FieldServer. This is because the FieldServer cannot poll for status information from the panel but has to rely on the panel sending messages with changes in status.

To synchronize the panel to the FieldServer you should push the reset button on the Fire Alarm Panel. When this is done the driver clears all the Data Arrays associated with the connections. In this case ‘associated’ means those DA’s used by the Map Descriptors logically connected to the serial port on which the message was received. This is the default behavior of the driver – however it is possible to limit the Data Arrays which get cleared so that only those DA’s associated with the panel which sent the message get cleared. Further information is provided in Appendix A.2

Appendix A.6.

Connection Status

This is a passive client driver connected to a Fire Alarm Panel. Normally there are no alarms and thus there would be no way for the FieldServer to know if it was still connected to the FACP network. The National Time & Signal panel, however, sends a message at a regular interval of approximately one minute. This driver uses this message to monitor and report the status of the connection.

A connection timeout may be specified. Read about the NATSfacp_Timeout and NATSfacp_Status_DA connection parameters in section 1.04.

If the driver doesn’t receive a ‘valid’ message within this timeout period then the driver considers the connection as lost. It reports this providing a connection status bit which can be monitored by the upstream node. The bit is set to 1 when the connection is good and set to zero when the connection is lost.

A ‘valid’ message is one that does not fail parsing.

Appendix A.7.

Node Status

If the FACP sends a message that one of its networked panels has a communications failure by sending a message with the Trouble String = “CommFail” then the driver reports that panel/Node as offline. If the event is restored to normal then the driver reports the node as being online. Furthermore, if a valid message is received from a panel in an offline state then the driver sets the node status to online.

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