Campbell Scientific LoggerNet Datalogger Support Software - Manual (Page 52)

Section 3. Introduction
Troubleshooter is used to identify possible problems disrupting
communications or data collection. You can narrow the display to show only
the dataloggers in the network, or expand it to view the entire network.
Problems are highlighted in different colors to indicate levels of severity. You
can click on a potential problem to bring up a menu that allows you to go to the
Setup Screen or Status Monitor to fix the problem, bring up help on the
problem, or in some cases fix the problem directly. Finding a problem, you
can launch a separate Communications Test utility or open the server logs.
PakBus Graph provides a graphical display of a PakBus network, and quick
access to the PakBus settings in LoggerNet and other PakBus devices. PakBus
is a packet-switched protocol developed by Campbell Scientific that facilitates
communications between PakBus-capable devices, including dataloggers, some
communications peripherals (NL100s, RF400s, etc.), and LoggerNet itself.
Among the advantages of PakBus are: more robust communications due to
packet-based communications, multi-threading of communications (e.g., you
can use a keyboard/display at the same time as a PC is collecting data via
telecommunications; or two PCs can request data from a datalogger at the same
time), peer-to-peer communications (PakBus dataloggers can send to or request
data from other PakBus dataloggers without a PC involved), and dynamic
routing (PakBus devices can be configured as “routers” and learn about the
presence of other PakBus devices or alternative routes to those devices as they
come on line or routes change).
In addition to these tools, a Troubleshooting guide is provided in this manual.
Refer to Section 14, Troubleshooting Guide.
3.2.6 Network Management Tools
LoggerNet Admin includes some tools which are useful when managing large
networks, or when you need to manage networks with several users.
The LoggerNet Service Manager is a utility that allows you to install and run
LoggerNet as a service. Refer to Section 2.4, Installing/Running LoggerNet as
a Service, for additional information.
The Security Manager allows a LoggerNet network administrator to set up
accounts for each user on a system, and then allow each user access rights to
LoggerNet under one of five levels of security. The Security Manager is
available only with LoggerNet Admin or LoggerNet Remote. Refer to Section
11, Utilities Installed with LoggerNet Admin and LoggerNet Remote, for
details.
The Hole Monitor utility is used to monitor the hole collection activity in
LoggerNet. Holes are instances in the data cache where records are missing.
Holes are most often seen in large RF networks where data is being collected
via a data advise operation.
3.2.7 Creating and Editing Datalogger Programs
LoggerNet offers two programs editors (one for CRBasic datalogger programs
and one for Edlog datalogger programs), and a program generator (which
supports both programming language types).
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