FS-8700-133 Genisys Manual

Page 5 of 13

 

 

4CONFIGURING THE FIELDSERVER AS A GENISYS CLIENT

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 communicate with a Genisys Server.

4.1Data Arrays/Descriptors

The configuration file tells the FieldServer about its interfaces, and the routing of data required. In order to enable the FieldServer for Genisys 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 data required from the Servers 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.

Section Title

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Data_Arrays

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Column Title

 

 

Function

 

 

Legal Values

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Up

to

15

Data_Array_Name

 

 

Provide name for Data Array

 

 

alphanumeric

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

characters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Data_Array_Format

 

 

Provide data format. Each Data Array can only take on one

 

 

Float,

Bit,

UInt16,

 

 

format.

 

 

SInt16, Byte,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Number of Data Objects. Must be larger than the data storage

 

 

 

 

 

Data_Array_Length

 

 

area required by the Map Descriptors for the data being placed in

 

1-10,000

 

 

 

 

this array.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Example

 

 

//

Data Arrays

 

 

Data_Arrays

 

 

Data_Array_Name ,Data_Array_Format

,Data_Array_Length

DA_8I_01

,Byte

,32

DA_8O_01

,Byte

,32

DA_DI_01

,Bit

,256

DA_DO_01

,Bit

,256

DA_COS_01

,Byte

,1

DA_COS_02

,Byte

,1

FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web: www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262 2299 Fax: (408) 262 2269 Toll Free: (888) 509 1970 email: support@fieldserver.com

Page 5
Image 5
FieldServer FS-8700-133 instruction manual Configuring the Fieldserver AS a Genisys Client, Data Arrays/Descriptors