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This opens the 'New Device' configuration mage for ABB Totalflow Device:
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General
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- 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.
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- Alarm Source
Alarm source selector.
- PERIODIC-HISTORY_RECORDS - alarms are obtained from Periodic History records.
- ALARM_LOG_RECORDS - alarms are obtained form Alarm Log records.
- Alarm Scan Rate
- The rate in seconds that Alarm Log Records are scanned. Set to 0 to poll on notification from the 'Record Info' scanner. To disable Alarm polls, set to -1.
- Event Scan Rate
- The rate in seconds that Event Records are scanned. Set to 0 to poll on notification from the 'Record Info' scanner. To disable Event polls, set to -1.
- Periodic History Scan Rate
- The rate in seconds that Periodic History Records are scanned. Set to 0 to poll on notification from the 'Record Info' scanner. To disable Periodic History polls, set to -1.
- Daily History Scan Rate
- The rate in seconds that Daily History Records are scanned. Set to 0 to poll on notification from the 'Record Info' scanner. To disable Daily History polls, set to -1.
- Record Info Scan Rate
- The rate in seconds for the 'Record Info Registers' (i.e. History, Event and Alarm record capacity, last sequence number, etc.) to be scanned.
If new Event, History, or Alarm Log records are detected, respective poller(s) will be notified. To disable 'RecordInfo' polls, set to -1. Set to 0 for one-shot 'Record Info' poll.
- Max. Records to Read
- Maximum number of records to read in one poll.
- Periodic Mapping
- The mapping of Totalflow LOG_PERIOD and DAILY structures to Flowcal Meter Periodic Transactions.
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- Group ID
- An ID representing a logical grouping of Edge Nodes and Devices
- Edge Node ID
- An ID representing an Edge or Network (EoN) Node
- Device ID
- An ID representing a Device
When all ABB Totalflow devices are configured, the Devices page will look as shown below:
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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.
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- Specify Array-Register Definitions (only if the "Add All Array-Register Definitions" configuration option was not enabled)
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- 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.
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- Configure default TLP Poll Group by enabling poll group entries as shown below:
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When this is done, the 'Devices' configuration page will show the 'Status' of each device set to 'Polling'.
