--- Protections switching
--- The faults page.
--- The device info page.
--- The maintenance page. The configuration parameters described below are set at this page.This page describes the device driver and the device window for the ND-SatCom RCU redundancy controller via REST-API. It does not include the control of attached devices (like HPA or Modulator or Encoder) but is only responsible for the waveguide switch(es) and the redundancy settings and. Use the specific NDSatCom-TWTA-REST driver to access the attached devices via RCU ip address.
It supports only the following configuration:
For support of other configurations see other drivers mentioned in the documentation.
Device window pages
The following table shows which device window pages are available with this individual device type. Tool-bar functions not mentioned here are described at the general description of device windows .
--- Protections switching --- The faults page. --- The device info page. --- The maintenance page. The configuration parameters described below are set at this page.Configuration parameters
At the maintenance page of the device window there are a couple of configuration parameters which must be set to make the software talk to the Controller.
| parameter | description |
|---|---|
| address | The device IP address as set at the device's front panel followed by the API port which is set by default to 9876 from the vendor. E.g. 192.168.1.1:9876 |
| readBackDelay | Defines the delay the driver uses when it reads back parameters recently commanded. The delay is initialized at a proved preset value which should not be changed under normal circumstances. |
| operationMode | Select controllers switching mode SW-ONCE or SW-ALWAYS |
| deviceComment | An optional text entered here appears as an addition to the tooltip which is shown while the mouse is placed over a device icon in the GUI. The "\n" character sequence is translated into a newline character, splitting the text into multiple lines. |
Variables defined by this device driver
| name | type | flags | range |
|---|---|---|---|
| info.driver | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| lowLevel.cmd | TEXT | StringRange | |
| lowLevel.reply | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| faults.99 | ALARM | R/O | AlarmFlagRange R/O (Communication) |
| faults.commstat | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| info.type | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| info.port | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| info.frame | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| info.model | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| info.version | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| info.deviceName.01 | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| info.deviceName.02 | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| info.deviceName.03 | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| config.readBackDelay | INTEGER | SAVE SETUP | IntegerRange (100 .. 10000) |
| config.operationMode | CHOICE | SETUP | EnumRange (SW-ONCE SW-ALWAYS) |
| protection | CHOICE | EnumRange (MANUAL AUTO BLOCKED) | |
| switchFault | BOOLEAN | R/O | BooleanRange R/O (true false) |
| location | CHOICE | EnumRange (1 2) | |
| position | CHOICE | EnumRange (A B) | |
| wgstat.1 | HEX | R/O | HexRange R/O (0 .. 0) |
| wgcmd.1 | HEX | HexRange (0 .. 0) | |
| internal.model | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| internal.dummy | INTEGER | R/O | IntegerRange R/O (0 .. 0) |
| internal.once | INTEGER | R/O | IntegerRange R/O (0 .. 0) |
| initialized | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| internal.loc | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| mGeneral | TEXT | R/O | StringRange R/O |
| faults.01 | ALARM | R/O | AlarmFlagRange R/O (RCU Power Supply 1) |
| faults.02 | ALARM | R/O | AlarmFlagRange R/O (RCU Power Supply 2) |
| faults.04 | ALARM | R/O | AlarmFlagRange R/O (TX Chain 1) |
| faults.06 | ALARM | R/O | AlarmFlagRange R/O (TX Chain 2) |
| faults.11 | ALARM | R/O | AlarmFlagRange R/O (WG Switch 1) |
| faults.13 | ALARM | R/O | AlarmFlagRange R/O (Unknown Version) |