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Status View
There will be one line for each configured instrument. Normally communicating instruments will be displayed in
BLACK, disconnected instruments will be displayed in dimmed text (GREY), invalid instruments (instruments that are
incompatible with the connection protocol) are displayed in RED, and instruments with errors (i.e. valid but not
communicating) are displayed in dark YELLOW
The following columns are displayed for each channel:
Chan – the logical channel number (1-127)
Ch-Name – the channel's name (up to 11 characters)
TYP – the channel's type identifier followed by L (logged channel) or N (not logged).
PC – the physical channel (in HEX). The first hex character is the connection (0-7 for serial connections 1-8; 8
– 127 for TCP connections), the remaining 2 hex characters identify the instrument's physical address.
TBL – an optional Table identifier.
PP – the current polling priority (1-3). If communications are good, polling priority will be 1. When the
instrument has 10 or more consecutive errors, polling priority will be set to 2 and the SDIO will only try to
reconnect to the instrument every 30 secs, when the consecutive error count exceeds 20 errors, priority will be
set to 3 and communications will attempt to reconnect every 2 minutes.
EC – the current consecutive error count.