FS-8705-06 GPA (General Purpose ASCII) Manual Table of Contents
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. GPA (GENERAL PURPOSE ASCII) DRIVER DESCRIPTION......................................... 3
2. DRIVER SCOPE OF SUPPLY...........................................................................................4
2.1. Supplied by FieldServer Technologies for this driver................................................... 4
2.2. Provided by the Supplier of 3rd Party Equipment..........................................................4
2.2.1. Required 3rd Party Hardware.....................................................................................4
2.2.2. Required 3rd Party Configuration...............................................................................4
3. HARDWARE CONNECTIONS.......................................................................................... 5
4. CONFIGURING THE FIELDSERVER AS AN GPA DRIVER CLIENT..............................6
4.1. Data Arrays/Descriptors ...............................................................................................6
4.2. Client Side Connection Descriptions............................................................................ 7
4.3. Client Side Node Descriptors .......................................................................................8
4.4. Client Side Map Descriptors......................................................................................... 9
4.4.1. FieldServer Related Map Descriptor Parameters......................................................9
4.4.2. Driver Related Map Descriptor Parameters ..............................................................9
4.5. Map Descriptor Example............................................................................................ 10
5. CONFIGURING THE FIELDSERVER AS A GPA DRIVER SERVER.............................11
APPENDIX A. ADVANCED TOPICS ......................................................................................12
Appendix A.1. Separating Data Streams.............................................................................. 12
Appendix A.2. Interaction with the WebServer Driver...........................................................12
APPENDIX B. TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS............................................................................13
Appendix B.1. Timeouts........................................................................................................13
APPENDIX C. DRIVER ERROR MESSAGES........................................................................ 14