American Fibertek Scout SS1 - Manual (Page 7)

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Overview
Operation
Scout is a monitoring and communications system designed for any application where
components need protection from the failure due to temperature, humidity or the loss of air flow.
Scout’s unique design also provides interfaces for hard contacts and control of external auxiliary
triggers. Scout senses external environmental conditions via the Scout Probe which monitors
temperature, airflow, humidity and mains power line.
Probes are intelligent. They contain a pre-assigned identification
number and are pre-programmed to activate LED # 1 until reassigned
by an operator. Once programmed for LED and operations, the
programming is maintained within the probe and will not be lost if
the probe is unplug or transferred to another Scout
Records of warning and alarm sensor events are recorded in logs. In addition Scout can be
programmed to poll itself at regular intervals and record its results in a Poll log. Reviewing this
log can help in tracking trends that, while not triggering warning or alarm events might lead to
conditions that significantly affect the life span of mission critical component such as hard drives.
In addition, warnings and alarms triggers as well as logs themselves can be programmed as
emails for alerts and for maintaining logs at remote locations.
Scout also provides two serial communication ports, one for RS 232 and one for RS 485. These
ports can be used for data exchange between Scout and any data storage or data generating
source.
Master and Security Admin security levels can set and save time out settings. All security levels
with “Security View” access can manually restart communication ports by point and click on the
selected port
Scout conditions and operations can be viewed
via an easy to operate User Interface. As Scout
is its own server no external client software is
required.
As interfacing to Scout doesn’t require an Active
X component, Scout can be viewed and operated
with most common web browsers.