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15 Retrieving Event Files
From Devices
Many devices produce digital fault records or other event files. You can setup your SMP Gateway
so that it automatically retrieves these files and stores them on one or more computers for
subsequent analysis.
Using SMP Config, you will go through the following steps:
Define system folders. These folders can either be located on the SMP Gateway or on a
remote computer.
Specify in which system folder(s) master protocol instances will store the event files that they
retrieve from the device.
The following sections explain these steps in details.
You can also configure an SMP Gateway to retrieve files from another SMP Gateway. This can be
particularly useful in a substation where an SMP Gateway is the single access point to multiple
other SMP Gateways that are configured to retrieve event files. The final section of this chapter
explains how to configure interconnected SMP Gateway for files retrieval.
15.1 Defining System Folders
System folders are virtual folders, defined for a given SMP Gateway, which are used to store event
files. Two types of system folders can be configured:
Remote System Folder.
A remote system folder is a shared folder on a remote computer, which is identified using the
Unified Naming Convention (UNC). Essentially, you refer to such a folder by combining the
computer and folder names (ex. \\ComputerName\Shared
FolderName). To use remote folders,
the SMP Gateway must have access to a WINS server in order to resolve computer names.
See the SMP Gateway installation guide for more information.
Local System Folder.
This type of folder is located on the SMP Gateway itself. Be aware that disk space is limited
on an SMP Gateway, if you compare it to nowadays computers hard drives.
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