The pop-up panel of a channel informs the
user about the general configuration of the selected channel.
Beyond that, the pop-up panel allows configuring the general settings
of the channel.
Open the "Channel overview" panel and
click on the cell with the channel name for that you want to open
the channel pop-up panel. This
opens the following pop-up window:
Figure: Channel Information and
Settings
Settings
Type
COM or MODEM.
All available types are read from the config file [channelmanager]
section (see dll config entry).
COM is used for a direct RS232 connection.
Mode
Choose the direction of this channel which
can be INBOUND, OUTBOUND or INBOUND/OUTBOUND.
Port
Choose the COM port that this channel will
use. In case of a terminal server modem this setting contains
the IP address and the port on the terminal server (format: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:port
(IP address:port)).
Settings
for inbound
Settings for a serial communication (in case
of a modem directly connected to the PC).
Communication settings
Choose a communication
setting from the combo box. If no communication setting is available,
create it (see Communication Settings).
Out
of service
Tick this check box to set a channel to "out of service" mode. This means
that the channel is no longer available.
The corresponding internal data point element
Status.OutOfService
of type _ChannelManager_Channel has a configured alert handling
config, which triggers a warning with the text "Channel out
of order!" when the channel is set to "out of service"
(Status.OutOfService = TRUE).
This applies only to data point elements that were created using
WinCC OA panels,
not when the user creates own data points via ASCII or a script.
Apply
Click the "Apply" button to apply the settings
to the channel configuration.
Debug
Debug
Tick this check box when debug information
should be written not only to a file (located in the project directory
\log\DynamicLogic\debug)
but also to the internal data point element Debug.Output.
Statistics
Num Tx
Number of bytes
that have been sent through the channel.
Num
Rx
Number of bytes
that have been received through the channel.
Num Connects
Number of times
that this channel was connected to a device.
Current connection
Busy
Indicates
the current status of the channel. If the channel is busy, the
LED is lightening green.
Connected
to
Name of the device
the channel is connected to.
Error state
Last
error
Error text of
the last error.
Num
errors
Total number
of errors for this channel.
Reset
Resets the number
of errors. |
