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Board Type
- G3 - ABB G3 Flow Computer
- G4 - ABB G4 Flow Computer
- NGC - ABB Natural Gas Chromatograph

Hostname
- Hostname or IP address of the device
TCP Port
- TCP Port of the device.
Socket Timeout
- TCP socket operation (i.e. connect and read) timeout in seconds. A timeout of zero is interpreted as an infinite timeout. To use system default, set to -1.
Connection Type
- Connection type selector. Either maintain one connection or establish new connection per each transaction. The ON_DEMAND option is recommended.
  - PERSISTENT - The ABB Totalflow driver keeps a TCP connection open and this connection is being shared by all polling threads.
  - ON DEMAND - A TCP connection is opened by each polling thread when it needs to poll and closed upon completion. Note that ABB Totalflow device still allows only one connection at a time.

Enable auto-discovery
- Enables ABB Totalflow driver to run application auto-discovery at startup and re-configuration.
Add All Array-Register Definitions
- Automatically add all the Array-Register definitions configured within the ABB Totoalflow driver module.
Auto-Generate Templates and Poll Groups
- Automatically generates default Array-Register templates and default poll group on startup and reconfiguration. Note that default Array-Register template will be generated for specific application type (enumeration ) if polling is enabled (see the 'Totalflow Applications Panel' below) for at least one of applications of this type. Another requirement for the default Array-Register template to be generated is that there should not be no any custom template for this application type.

Station ID
- Station ID of this ABB Totalflow device
Keep Alive
- Time interval (in seconds) between 'keep-alive' polls that may be required to maintain PERSISTENT connection if ABB Totalflow device is configured to disconnect on inactivity. To disable 'keep-alive' polls, set to 0.
Host Timeout
- Timeout (in milliseconds) to wait for a reply from the host. The default value is 3000 milliseconds.
Poll EOT Timeout
- Time (in milliseconds) to wait to ensure there are no more packets to receive. The default value is 700 milliseconds.
Auto-Discovery EOT timeout
- Time (in milliseconds) to wait to ensure there are no more packets to receive during auto-discovery. The default value is 2000 milliseconds.
Number Retries
- Number of retries if DB2 request is NAKed.
Supervisory Frames
- Number of DB2 supervisory frames.
Password
- DB2 Protocol Security Code. If device is set with default security code of 0000, leave blank.
Add All Array-Register Definitions
- Automatically add all the Array-Register definitions configured within the ABB Totoalflow driver module.

RBAC Enabled
- Enables Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is enabled on the device and therefore the X_RBAC frame needs to be included in the DB2 request message.
Operator ID
- Operator ID. If RBAC is not enabled on the device, leave blank.
Password
- Operator password. If RBAC is enabled on the device, leave blank.

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When all ABB Totalflow devices are configured, the Devices page will look as shown below:

To finish configuring ABB Totalflow device, the following four things (as detailed in EFM ABB Totalflow Quickstart document) need to be done:

Review auto-discovered applications and choose which application driver needs to poll.

Specify Array-Register Definitions (only if the "Add All Array-Register Definitions" configuration option was not enabled)

Review default Array-Register Templates generated based on provided Array-Register definitions per each Totalflow application enumeration obtained during auto-discovery. Note that default Array-Register Template entry will be generated for application enumeration only if at lease one of installed application of this type is enabled. Default Array-Register templates can be modified by either editing or by importing Array-Regsiter template CSV file.