FieldServer Gamewell FCI E3 Series - Manual (Page 12)

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Appendix A.3. Networked Panels.
The driver can processes messages and store data from multiple panels provided that:

The panels are connected in an FCI network and the panels are configured to report their events to the
main panel
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The main panel is configured to send the Node of origin in a message preceding the event message.
Consult with FCI for information on how to achieve this.
Example of message sent by a panel that is networked. The driver is dependent on seeing the node of event origin
included in parenthesis before each event message.
Node02:
MISSING Acclimate L1S041 00:17:06 01/01/06
Node55: 1st Floor Lobby
DISCONNECT RSTRD Ion Detector L1S024 09:51:44 01/15/06
Local:
FIRST ALARM Photo Detector L1S001 09:24:52 12/01/06
The main panel is identified as ‘Local’. The driver interprets this as Node_ID=0.
To capture events from multiple networked panels a Node Descriptor is required for each panel with the
appropriate Node_ID. Each Node requires a set of Map Descriptors.