Document no. M1144955-001
1.3.2 Communication
Interface status indicates the status of the data link 
between the CPU and MEM sections. If the MemCard 
option is installed, the status should always be on 
ACTIVE. If the status blinks between ACTIVE and 
CLOSED, a communications error has occurred.
Message types indicates the type of data packets 
that have been sent (Tx) and received (Rx) since last 
monitor start. Data types are listed on the lines below 
Message types text.
Data types:
Record K indicates the communication 
between the Monitor and Record 
Keeper.
File Operation indicates the operations of Patient data.
Service indicates the MEM section operations.
Modes indicates the User Mode operations.
Module status indicates the number of sent/received data packets that relate to the MEM section status.
Packets total indicates the total amount of data packets that have been sent/received since the last 
monitor start.
Bytes total indicates the total amount of data bytes that have been sent/received since the last monitor 
start.
The last four lines indicate transmission errors:
Timeouts indicates the number of timeouts that have occurred in MEM section data transmission since 
the last monitor start.
Chksum err indicates the number of checksum errors in data packets from MEM section since the last 
monitor start.
Length err indicates the number of data packets with erroneous length from the MEM section since the 
last monitor start.
Duplicated indicates the number of duplicate data packets from the MEM section since the last monitor 
start.