9.446 Newtec-AZ200-1-To-1

The Newtec-AZ200-1-To-1 device driver controls a single 1:1 redundancy implemented with a Newtec AZ200 switch controller. The driver is targeted to operational use, it does not implement a configuration interface to the AZ200 switch controller. The driver uses SNMP to control the device.

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 .

• --- This page controls the operational parameters of the device.
• --- 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 parameter which must be set to reflect the configuration of the redundancy switch in the sat-nms software.

• parameter --- description

• address --- The SNMP address specification for the device. The full address specification consists of the following fields:aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd:pppp read-community write-community

  • aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd --- The IP address of the device in 'dotted quad' notation. This field is mandatory.
  • pppp --- The IP port number where the device accepts SNMP requests. The port number may be omitted, the driver uses the standard port 161 in this case.
  • read-community --- The SNMP read community name. This must match the read community expected by the device.
  • write-community --- The SNMP write community name. This must match the write community expected by the device. The write community name may be omitted, the driver uses the read community name for both, read and write in this case. If both community names are missing, the driver uses 'public' as a default for read and write community.

• functionIndex --- The Newtec Azimuth switch controller is capable to comprise up to 5 redundancy switching entities called "functions". With this parameter (1..5) you select the function to address with this device instance. With a single 1:1 redundancy switch set this to '1'

• chain1Fault --- The Newtec Azimuth switch controller provides 9 fault inputs which may be configured to act as triggers for the redundancy switching. Select the fault input which is used in the AZ200 to report a fault of modem/chain 1 here in order to show this fault condition at the first page of the device window. The display of the fault condition is not affected by the fault classification setting described below in section "Fault classifications".

• chain2Fault --- Like chain1Fault, bot for modem/chain 2.

Fault classification

The Newtec Azimuth switch controller reports faults of the modems it supervises in the same way as internal faults. In most cases this behaviour is not desirable, as the switch controller summary fault should indicate a fault of the switch controller itself, any faults of the modems connected to the controller are reported separately by the software. For this reason, it is recommended to set the fault classification of the faults "User 1" .. "User 9" to "NONE" at the faults page of the device window.

Variables defined by this device driver