You configure the settings for each Outstation Set using the fields on the appropriate Outstation Set Form.
Each Form has several ‘tabs’ for configuring different aspects of Outstation Set information. For sets on advanced drivers, a combination of these tabs is available:
- Identification—Use to optionally define a Help View and to indicate whether the set is to be excluded from any Exclusive Control activity (see Defining Identification Details in the ClearSCADA Guide to Core Configuration).
- User Methods—Use to define any custom pick actions (‘methods’) for a set (see Using the User Methods Tab to Define Custom Actions in the ClearSCADA Guide to Core Configuration).
- Outstation Set—Use for Defining Communication Settings, including:
- Whether the set is functional.
- The severity of any events that are generated by the set.
- Whether you can perform a promoted dial out in order to promote outstation scanning under certain circumstances. (For non-PSTN sets, the ability to promote dial out, if enabled, only applies whenever the outstation falls back to use PSTN communications.)
- For non-PSTN sets, the channels that are used by the outstations in the set. For further information, see as appropriate:
- <Set Type>—An additional tab available on some sets. Use the fields on the tab to define further type-specific information for a set (see the driver-specific documentation).
This section explains the features on the Outstation Set tab that are common to sets on most advanced drivers.
For aspects of outstation set configuration that are common to most types of database item, see the ClearSCADA Guide to Core Configuration.
For aspects of outstation set configuration that are specific to individual drivers, including fields on any additional tabs, see the ClearSCADA driver-specific documentation.