UTILITIES DMON SCH SCREENS


UTILITIES DMON SCH SCREENS

1. UTILITIES DMON SCH SCREEN

You choose the items you want to monitor in a Data Monitor schedule.

Table 1.  Data Monitor Schedule Menu Items

ITEM DESCRIPTION

Schedule Comment

You can add a comment to each Data Monitor schedule.

File device

This item allows you to specify the name of the device to be used when you write a report. You can choose from FLPY:, PRN:, FR:, MC:, CONS:, or RD:.

File name

Default: Blank

This item allows you to specify the name of the file to be used for a report. A .DT file extension is always used. If you leave this item blank, and Reporting is enabled, the saved data file will be named "SAMPL". A directory name can be included with the file name. A file name of A\SAMPL results in one file named SAMPL.DT or multipleSAMPLxxx.DT files in the directory named A. Multiple data files are created if the file name index is greater than zero.

If the file name includes a directory path on the file device, the directory must exist or an error will be posted and the file will not be saved.

File name index

Default: 0

Min: 0

Max: 999

This item allows you to specify an index number to be appended to the file name when a report is generated. If this item is non-zero, each time a report is generated this index is incremented. For example if the file name is SAMPL then successive reports will be named SAMPL001.DT, SAMPL002.DT, and so forth. If the file name specified is more than 5 characters long it is truncated to 5 characters before the file index number is added. This limits the file name length to 8 characters total and permits numbering from SAMPL001.DT to SAMPL999.DT. When numbering reaches the limit, 999 in this case, the file index is reset to 1. If the file name is less than 5 characters long more file index numbers can be used. For example: SAMP0001.DT to SAMP9999.DT. Note the root directory of a file device may be limited to only 512 files. A subdirectory on a device may permit more files, possibly 65535. A directory name can be included with the file name. For example a file name of A\SAMPL will result in files named SAMPLxxx.DT in the directory named A.

File size - ArcTool and DispenseTool only

Default: 0

Min:0

Max:99999

This item specifies the amount of memory in KB you expect to use on the file device. During execution of Sample Start[n], the device is checked for this amount of free memory. If it is not available, an error is posted. If you specify 0 or less than 5KB as the file size, the system will verify that there is at least 5KB of space available on the device you are saving data to.

File size - PaintTool only

Default: 0

Min:0

Max:99999

This item specifies the amount of memory in KB you expect to use on the file device. During execution of Sample Start[n], the device is checked for this amount of free memory. If it is not available, an error is posted. If you specify 0 as the file size, the system only checks that there is at least one available block on the media. This should always be set to zero.

Sampling

Default: 250

Min: 0

Max: 250

This item specifies the sampling frequency.
  • Request - This is the sampling frequency you specify.

  • Actual - This is the actual sampling frequency that Data Monitor will use. Since there are only certain frequencies available, it might be greater than or less than the sampling frequency you specify.

Monitoring

Default: 10

Min: 0

Max: 250

This item specifies the monitoring frequency.
  • Request - This is the monitoring frequency you specify

  • Actual - This is the actual monitoring frequency that Data Monitor will use. Since there are only certain frequencies available, it might be greater than or less than the monitoring frequency you specify.

Recording

Default: 1

Min: 0

Max: 250

This item specifies the recording frequency.
  • Request - This is the monitoring frequency you specify

  • Actual - This is the actual monitoring frequency that Data Monitor will use. Since there are only certain frequencies available, it might be greater than or less than the monitoring frequency you specify.

Record mode

Default: CONTINUOUS

This item specifies the recording mode.
  • ONE BUFFER - Data will be recorded until the record data buffer is full

  • CONTINUOUS - The record buffer is re-used when full.

Number of items - ArcTool and DispenseTool only

Default: 1

Min: 1

Max: 6

PaintTool only

Default:

Min: 1

Max:

This item specifies how many items are monitored by this particular schedule.

2. UTILITIES DMON LIM SCREEN

You can set limit values from the UTILITIES DMON LIM screen.

The UTILITIES DMON LIM screen displays the items in Table 2, "UTILITIES DMON LIM Screen Items " and allows you to perform the operations in Table 3, "UTILITIES DMON LIM Screen Operations " .

Table 2. UTILITIES DMON LIM Screen Items

ITEM DESCRIPTION

Schedule #

This field is the current schedule number that describes schedule information.

Item #

This item is the current item number.

Des

This field is a description of the current item.

Var

This field is the system variable associated with this item.

Nominal value

This item is normal operating value.

Warning limit

This item is upper and lower boundary of the operating value.

Pause limit

This item is upper and lower limit at which the process will be stopped if the limit exceeds the Time before error value.

Time before error

This item is the period of time outside of which the process will be stopped.

Table 3. UTILITIES DMON LIM Screen Operations

FUNCTION KEY DESCRIPTION

[TYPE]

Press this key to access various application-specific options.

EXIT

Press this key to display the UTILITIES DMON SCH screen.