Verilink WANsuite 5370 (34-00310.D) Product Manual - Manual (Page 44)

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Character Size Selects the number of bits required to make up one asynchronous character.
Values: Five, Six, Seven, Eight
Default: Eight
Diagnostic Messages Enables the Supervisory port to send out diagnostic messages upon power-up.
Values: Enable, Disable
Default: Enable
NOTICE: When in SCADA mode, these diagnostic messages disrupt the connected
device. Therefore, if using the SCADA mode, set this value to
“Disable.”
NOTICE: Diagnostic Messages must be set to “Enable” for the Verilink
Configuration Wizard to work.
Parity Sets the parity bit.
Values: None, Odd, Even
Default: None
Stop Bit Selects the number of bits required to end the character.
Values: 1, 2
Default: 1
Current Pin Status
The Current Pin Status, which shows the state of the RS-232 pins, is also
displayed on the Supervisory interface screen.
DTR Alarm Control and Status Table
In addition to the configurable fields, the Supervisory screen displays a table
that lets you set the Data Terminal Ready (DTR) Alarm Control parameters
and view the current DTR Alarm Status.
Choices for DTR Alarm Control are “Enable” and “Disable”; the default
setting is “Disable.” Setting DTR Alarm Control to “Enable” allows the unit
to go into alarm on a loss of DTR. The DTR Status field indicates the current
state of the DTR alarm.
Services Screen
The Services screen (Figure 3.12) provides a view of the unit’s defined
services (indexed by number) and displays the Interface, Type, Pair, and
Status parameters for each service.