FieldServer FS-8700-40 instruction manual Configuring the Fieldserver AS a SBT-FSI Client

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4CONFIGURING THE FIELDSERVER AS A SBT-FSI 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 SBT-FSI Server.

In FSI mode, the NIM-1R or NIM-1W or RPM allows the FieldServer to gather data from up to 63 MXL/XLS Panels connected via an MXL/XLS network. The default configuration shipped with the FieldServer will monitor two panels (1 and 2) with 8 modules (1 to 8) each.

When the FieldServer is configured as a Client, two sets of data are collected by a “poller” Map Descriptor.

The first is a collection of 19 counters per panel. Each 16-bit counter is incremented by the poller Map Descriptor whenever the corresponding event occurs. An external Client can read these counters to quickly determine whether a new event has been reported to the Server. The counters are mapped into the Data Array specified for the poller Map Descriptor. Counter offsets into the Data Array per event type are indicated below:

Event	Counter Offset
Fire Alarm In	0
Fire Alarm Out	1
Fire Alarm Acknowledge	2
Trouble In	3
Trouble Out	4
Trouble Acknowledge	5
Supervisory In	6
Supervisory Out	7
Supervisory Acknowledge	8
Security Alarm In	9

Event	Counter Offset
Security Alarm Out	10
Security Alarm Acknowledge	11
Status In	12
Status Out	13
Test In	14
Test Out	15
Audible Silenced	16
Audible Unsilenced	17
System Reset	18

The second set of data is a collection of bit maps that can be queried to identify the device that has reported the event. When an alarm event arrives from a device, the corresponding bit is set in two separate arrays. The bit in one array indicates the alarm has occurred, and the bit in the other array indicates that the alarm has not yet been acknowledged. When an “alarm clear” event arrives, the bit in the alarm array is cleared. If an “alarm acknowledge” event arrives, the bit in the un-acknowledged array is cleared. All event arrays in a Client driver configuration are optional. To enable an event array, a Map Descriptor must be defined in the configuration using a Map Descriptor message type that corresponds to the array as shown in the following table:

Array	Msg_Type
Fire Alarm	Fire
Fire Alarm Un-Acknowledged	Fire_Ack
Trouble Alarm	Trouble
Trouble Un-Acknowledged	Trouble_Ack
Supervisory Alarm	Super
Supervisory Un-Acknowledge	Super_Ack

Array	Msg_Type
Security Alarm	Secur
Security Alarm Un-Acknowledged	Secur_Ack
Status	Status
Test	Test
Audible (Un)Silenced	Audible
System Reset	Reset

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