Configure ClearSCADA to Retrieve Trio Radio Diagnostics

On a ClearSCADA system, you configure the ClearSCADA database so that entries in the database correspond to the devices and parameters that you want to monitor on your system. This section summarizes the database items that you need to configure on your system in order for ClearSCADA to retrieve diagnostics data from Trio radios.

ClearSCADA can only retrieve diagnostics from Trio radios if the Simple Trio Diagnostics Driver is installed and running on the ClearSCADA servers on your system. Similarly, you can only configure the required database items if the Simple Trio Diagnostics driver is installed and running on the ClearSCADA servers. (On the Modules tab of the ClearSCADA Server Status Tool, the driver is listed as the TrioDiagnostics driver.)

When you configure Trio Diagnostics items in the ClearSCADA database, many of the settings of those items need to correspond to the settings of the relevant Trio radios on your system. Some settings are either fixed (incorporated into the design of the Trio radio) or are configured by an engineer. You need to have access to, or an understanding of, the settings of the Trio radios on your system before you can configure the Trio Diagnostics database items successfully.

For example, you need to know the serial number of each Trio radio and be familiar with Trio Diagnostics Terminology.

You also need to be aware of which optional features are required for each Trio Diagnostics database item. These features include:

• Alarm views
• Alarm redirections
• Historic data storage
• User methods.

You can also use core ClearSCADA features with Trio Diagnostics database items, including Lists, Actions, and Mimics. See the core documentation for details.

In the ClearSCADA database, you need to configure:

1. One Simple Trio Diagnostics Channel for each communication connection between the ClearSCADA server and a Trio ‘base’ radio (see Configuring a Trio Diagnostics Channel).

   You only need configure a channel for each radio with which ClearSCADA is to communicate directly. If ClearSCADA is only to communicate with remote radios via a base radio, for example, you need only configure a Channel database item for each connection between ClearSCADA and the base radio. However, if ClearSCADA is also to communicate with the remote radios directly, you also need to configure a Channel database item for each connection between ClearSCADA and those remote radios.
   

2. At least one Simple Trio Diagnostics Radio for each Trio radio from which ClearSCADA is to retrieve diagnostics data (see Configuring a Trio Diagnostics Radio).

   If some diagnostics data needs retrieving more frequently that other diagnostics data on the same radio, use more than one Simple Trio Diagnostics Radio item to represent the same radio unit (see Configuring a Trio Diagnostics Radio).

3. One Simple Trio Diagnostics Point of the appropriate type for each item of diagnostics data that ClearSCADA is to retrieve from a Trio radio (see Points Used on Trio Diagnostics Radios). (D Series radios only support a fixed number of hard-coded status messages, each of which are analog. As such, you use Simple Trio Diagnostics Analog points to retrieve the diagnostics parameters from D Series radios.)

To minimize the time that it takes to configure the Simple Trio Diagnostics items, you may want to configure them in the order listed above, as Radio configuration requires that you specify a Channel, and Point configuration requires that you specify a Radio, and so on.