Grass Valley 8900NET v.4.0.0 - Manual (Page 19)

8900NET Instruction Manual 19
Status Monitoring and Reporting
Status Monitoring and Reporting
This section provides a complete summary of frame status monitoring and
reporting in a Gecko or Gecko Flex system with an 8900NET module
installed in the frame. It summarizes what status items are reported and
how to enable/disable reporting of each item. There are a number of ways
to monitor status of frame power supplies, fans, modules in the frame, and
other status items depending on the method of monitoring being used
including Frame Alarm and SNMP reporting.
Frame Status Reporting
8900 Frame status will report the following items:
• Power supply health,
• Status of fans in the frame front cover,
• Temperature,
• Module health, and
• Frame bus status.
Module health status will report the following items:
• Internal module state (and state of submodule or options enabled)
including configuration errors (warning), internal faults, and normal
operation (Pass).
• Signal input states including valid/present (pass), not present or
invalid (warning), not monitored, and not available (no signal inputs).
• Reference input states including locked/valid (pass), not
locked/invalid (warning), and not monitored.
• Signal output states with reporting functionality (reference output).
The Module Health bus provides a means for older (legacy) or less capable
modules (such as DAs with no microprocessor) that cannot communicate
over the Frame serial bus to report alarm conditions to the Frame Monitor
or 8900NET module. The reporting is done using a voltage level sent by the
module. When a problem exists on the module, it will pulse or provide a
continuous voltage level to the Module Health bus indicating that a
problem exists on the module but will not indicate what the problem is.