Configure the Server to Retrieve Trio Radio Diagnostics

On a Geo SCADA Expert system, you configure the Geo SCADA Expert 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 Geo SCADA Expert to retrieve diagnostics data from Trio radios.

In order to configure the required database items, and for Geo SCADA Expert to retrieve diagnostics data from Trio radios, the Advanced Trio Diagnostics driver has to be installed and running on the Geo SCADA Expert servers on your system. (On the Modules tab of the Geo SCADA Expert Server Status Tool, the driver is listed as the TrioDiagnosticsAdv driver.)

When you configure Trio Diagnostics items in the Geo SCADA Expert database, many of the settings of those items need to correspond to the settings of the relevant Trio devices 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 database item. These features include:

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

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

In the Geo SCADA Expert database, you need to configure:

1. An Advanced Trio Diagnostics Radio Channel for each communication connection between the Geo SCADA Expert server and a Trio radio (or hot-standby controller unit, in the case of a hot-standby radio setup).

   The number of channels that you need to configure, along with the channel's Connection Type and setup varies, depending on the radio series, the chosen interface, and Geo SCADA Expert's access to the radios in the radio network (see Required Communication Setups).

   For more information, see Configuring an Advanced Trio Diagnostics Radio Channel.
   

2. An Advanced Trio Diagnostics Radio Set to define a collection of Trio radios that share the same channel (see Configuring a Radio Set on the Advanced Trio Diagnostics Driver).
3. An Advanced Trio Diagnostics Radio for each Trio radio from which Geo SCADA Expert is to retrieve diagnostics data or control relay outputs(see Configuring a Radio on the Advanced Trio Diagnostics Driver).

   With a hot-standby radio setup, the number of radio database items that you require varies, depending on the radio series. You require 1 radio database item to represent a D Series hot-standby radio, and 2 radio database items to represent a hot-standby radio setup with the other supported series of Trio radios (see Retrieve Data from a Hot-Standby Radio).

4. An Advanced Trio Diagnostics Point of the relevant type for each item of diagnostics data that Geo SCADA Expert is to retrieve from a Trio radio (see Points used on Advanced 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 Advanced Trio Diagnostics Analog points to retrieve the diagnostics parameters from D Series radios.)

   To specify the rate at which Geo SCADA Expert is to retrieve diagnostic data, you use Polling Intervals. You specify the required rate for each Polling Interval on the Radio Form, and then specify which Retrieval Interval applies to a particular point (and therefore item of diagnostic data) on the Point Form. With radios other than D Series radios, you can use Polling Intervals to retrieve different items of diagnostic data at different rates to other data from the same radio (see Define the Data Polling Intervals). (With D Series radios, you can only specify a single Polling Interval, as the poll message cannot control the points for which data is returned.)

5. If applicable, an Advanced Trio Diagnostics Digital Output Point for each:
   • Relay output that Geo SCADA Expert is to control in a Trio radio. (Only some types of Trio radio include controllable relay outputs.)
   • Output that controls the changeover of E Series or Q Series radios in a hot-standby controller unit (in a hot-standby radio setup).

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