csmstr - Omega Engineering

GETTING STARTED
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS ......................................................................... 75
USING EXPANSION CARDS ................................................................................. 75
SHARING SERIAL PORTS ................................................................................... 76
ENABLING TCP/IP..........................................................................................................................76
SHARING THE REQUIRED PORT..........................................................................................................76
CONNECTING VIA ANOTHER PORT ......................................................................................................77
CONNECTING VIA ETHERNET .............................................................................................................77
PURE VIRTUAL PORTS .....................................................................................................................78
LIMITATIONS.................................................................................................................................79
USING ELECTRONIC MAIL.................................................................................. 79
CONFIGURING SMTP ......................................................................................................................79
CONFIGURING SMS ........................................................................................................................81
THE ADDRESS BOOK .......................................................................................................................82
WORKING WITH MODEMS ................................................................................. 83
SOME TYPICAL APPLICATIONS ...........................................................................................................83
ADDING A DIAL-IN CONNECTION........................................................................................................84
ADDING A DIAL-OUT CONNECTION.....................................................................................................86
ADDING AN SMS CONNECTION..........................................................................................................87
SMS MESSAGE PROCESSING .............................................................................................................88
USING MULTIPLE INTERFACES ...........................................................................................................88
CHECKING THE MODEM STATUS .........................................................................................................89
MODEM INITIALIZATION SEQUENCE ....................................................................................................90
TROUBLESHOOTING MODEM COMMUNICATION ......................................................................................91
OPC COMMUNICATION ..................................................................................... 93
OPC SERVER SETTINGS...................................................................................................................93
OPC AND SCADA ..........................................................................................................................94
OPC LINK (RED LION PRODUCTS DATA EXCHANGE) ...............................................................................94
USING TIME MANAGEMENT................................................................................ 95
CONFIGURING THE TIME MANAGER.....................................................................................................96
SELECTING AN SNTP SERVER............................................................................................................97
TIME-ZONE CONFIGURATION ............................................................................................................98
CONFIGURING THE SYNCHRONIZATION MANAGER (FTP CLIENT) ................................. 98
SYNCHRONIZATION MANAGER SETTINGS ..............................................................................................98
AUTOMATIC LOG SYNCHRONIZATION...................................................................................................99
ADVANCED FTP EXCHANGE FUNCTIONS ............................................................................................. 100
CONFIGURING THE FTP SERVER ........................................................................100
FTP SERVER SETTINGS.................................................................................................................. 101
FTP SECURITY ............................................................................................................................ 101
ACCESSING THE SERVER................................................................................................................. 102
CONFIGURING DATA TAGS............................................................................. 102
ALL ABOUT TAGS ...........................................................................................102
TYPES OF TAGS............................................................................................................................ 102
WHY USE TAGS?.......................................................................................................................... 104
CREATING TAGS ............................................................................................105
EDITING TAGS ..............................................................................................106
EDITING PROPERTIES......................................................................................106
EXPRESSION PROPERTIES ............................................................................................................... 106
TRANSLATABLE STRINGS ................................................................................................................ 107
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