Starting up nm, In the event of a power failure, Determining where the data goes – Rockwell Automation 2708-NNM Network Manager Software User Manual
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Chapter 4
The Basics
4–4
To start NM simply type NM at the DOS prompt and press enter. If this fails
to start NM then type CD path, (where path is the path to the NM directory)
and press enter, now type NM and press enter.
Depending on the setup of NM the program should now show “Normal
Polling in Progress” on the network status window located at the right half of
the display. If this is not the case then you need to start communications by
pressing
<F5>/‘R’
from the Main Menu to reset the network or press
<ALT><
I
> to
initiate communications.
In The Event Of A Power Failure
Should the power fail during the execution of NM, you will have to re–start
NM by following the steps mentioned under Starting up NM. If any of the
workstations do not come on–line it will be necessary to physically go to
each of the workstations in question and see if the display shows ‘POWER
FAIL SHUTDOWN’. If this is the case then you must pull the power cord
out of the workstation and then plug it
back
into the workstation. The cause
of this message is that the power did not fail long enough for the workstation
to completely lose power, therefore you must make the workstation lose its
power for a least one second, then restore power.
Determining Where The Data Goes
Once
all workstations are on–line press
<F2>/‘N’
from the Main Menu for the
Network Status menu. Now press the numbers <5> or <6> to view the names
of the 7 fields that may or may not have been setup to capture data. If the
names of these fields appear as Field
1
through Field 7 then most likely no
extra data files have been setup to capture the data and all data retrieved will
be placed into the default file named NM. DAT. If the names of the fields
differ from those just mentioned then you will need to go into the
Supervisor
/ Change Configuration / File/data capture
menu and examine the filenames
associated with the field names. To do this press
<ESC>
until you are at the
main menu, press
<F7>/‘S’
to choose the Supervisor menu, then press
<F2>/‘C’
to choose the Change Configuration menu. Now press
<F5>/‘F’
to
go into the File/data capture menu and press
<F3>/‘C’
to select the Capture
field editing menu. To see what the filename is that is associated with each
field press
<F2>
through
<F9>
to select a field, then write down the filename
listed next to “File to store matching records into:”, this is the file that all
data matching the key specified will be placed into. Press
<ESC>
to backup
to the Data Capture menu and repeat the above steps for each of the fields.
Starting Up NM