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CATC F IRE I NSPECTOR 2.01 C HAPTER 8
User’s ManualBus Topol ogy Trees
8.7 Vendor Information
A device's vendor information is stored in the file VendorId.ini, which is located in the
directory that contains the FireInspector executable. Information can be added to the file
manually, or FireInspector can add it automatically when a name is assigned to a node in a
bus topology tree.
VendorId.ini contains data in standard Windows configuration file format. Vendor ID data
is in the [VendorID] section of the file. The following instructions tell how to format data in
the file.
This is an example Node_Vendor_Id table that is used by FireInspector to match a node's
vendor ID to a user-chosen text string (node name).
Format:
111111:22:33333333=description
Description:
• 111111 represents node_vendor_id . It should be in hexadecimal and is case
insensitive.
• 22 represents chip_id_hi . It should be in hexadecimal and is case insensitive.
• 33333333 represents chip_id_lo . It should be in hexadecimal and is case
insensitive.
• ' description ' represents the node name. It is displayed in a bus topology tree
node when the command to gather vendor information is issued. Everything to the
right of the equal sign (
= ) is considered part of the description. If present, leading
and trailing quotation marks are stripped from the description.
Any digit in node_vendor_id can be replaced with an ' x ' or ' X ' wildcard. Those nybbles
will not be considered when FireInspector looks for a node's description. FireInspector sorts
the lines internally so that the most specific records are examined first, followed by
increasingly generic records.
Comments in the file are delimited by a semicolon ( ; ) character. Everything to the right of
a ' ; ' character is considered a comment and is ignored. If a ' ; ' appears in a description,
everything to its right is considered a comment, but if the description is changed from within
FireInspector, the comment won't be written back to the file.
FireInspector previously used a different file format for the Vendor ID file. If a Vendor ID
file in the old format is present in the directory, it will be automatically converted to the new
format at program start. The old file will be renamed as “VendorID.000” (or
“VendorID.001,” etc., if other old files exist).