This driver is a simple driver. It provides additional functionality to enable ClearSCADA to interface with specific supported devices using a particular protocol. To interact successfully with such devices, you need to:
- Install and run the driver
- Ensure that the driver is licensed
- Configure the required database items and settings on the driver
- Ensure that the database items (and any database items on which they depend) have valid, saved, configuration and are 'In Service'.
Intended Audience
This guide is designed for use by engineers who are responsible for configuring Trio Diagnostics features and items in the ClearSCADA database. It can also be used by system administrators when investigating the cause of unexpected behavior relating to the Simple Trio Diagnostics driver.
Document Scope
The ClearSCADA Simple Trio Diagnostics driver documentation explains how to configure Trio Diagnostics specific features and items in the ClearSCADA database (see Configure ClearSCADA to Retrieve Trio Radio Diagnostics).
The guide also provides information about:
- Trio Diagnostics Terminology of which you might need to be aware.
- Driver-specific aspects that may be of interest to system administrators and engineers when investigating unexpected system behavior (relating to the driver) (see Trio Diagnostics Specific Status Display Attributes).
Prerequisite Reading
This guide contains technical information that is intended for users that are sufficiently familiar with ClearSCADA configuration and operation. Before reading this driver guide, ensure that you are familiar with:
- ClearSCADA configuration practices, procedures, and the configuration of properties that are common to many database items. For more information, see the ClearSCADA Guide to Core Configuration, and the ClearSCADA Guide to Core Point Configuration.
- Driver structure, components, and configuration properties, pick actions, and status attributes that are common to many drivers. For more information, see the ClearSCADA Guide to Drivers.
- Simple driver composition, configuration order, and configuration properties and logging options that are common to many simple drivers. For more information, see the ClearSCADA Guide to Simple Drivers.
ClearSCADA's Simple Trio Diagnostics driver provides additional functionality to enable ClearSCADA to communicate with a network of Trio radios. ClearSCADA communicates with each radio network via a single Trio ‘base’ radio (see Supported System Setups). The ‘base’ radio might be any of several radio products, such as a Trio base station, or a Trio remote data radio unit.
The driver enables ClearSCADA to interrogate each Trio radio on the radio network for diagnostics data. The type of diagnostics data that ClearSCADA can retrieve from each radio varies, depending on the radio series (see Trio Radio Series Supported by the Simple Trio Diagnostics Driver) and the type of radio unit.
For any Trio Diagnostics information not included in this guide, see the documentation supplied with your Trio radio equipment.
NOTE: There are no driver-specific pick actions for database items on this particular driver. However, users with the required privileges can add custom pick actions to a database item by using the User Methods tab on the relevant configuration Form (see Using the User Methods Tab to Define Custom Actions in the ClearSCADA Guide to Core Configuration). See a system administrator for the documentation associated with such custom actions (also known as ‘methods’).