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7AF SECS/GEM Interface Ver. 1.9 February 19, 2002 5-35
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5.12.3 Spooling State Transitions
Table 27 Spooling State Transitions
#
From
Trigger
To
Description
1
Power On
Equipment shutdown
Power Off
The Equipment may power off at any time.
2
Power Off
Equipment Startup
History*
(Power On)
Equipment re-boots after a shutdown.
Spooling will continue according to its
state when the equipment was powered
off.
3
Spool
Inactive
7AF experiences a
transmission failure
and the variable
GemConfigSpool
(VID 53) is set to
"1" (enabled).
Spool Active
7AF will now start spooling any messages
which have been defined by the Host.. If
the Host does not wish to implement
Spooling, the EC GemConfigSpool
should be set to "0" and the spool state
will never become active.
4
Default
Entry into Spool
Active
No Spool
Output
No spooled messages are being read by the
Host.
5
Default
Entry into Spool
Active
Spool Not Full
The spool file has not yet filled up.
6
Spool Not
Full
The Equipment's
spool has reached
capacity.
Spool Full
The Equipment will start to either discard
new messages destined for the spool or
overwrite the beginning of the spool,
depending on the setting of
GemOverWriteSpool (VID 54).
7
Transmit
Spool
The Equipment has
de-spooled some
messages, but not all
have been sent to the
Host.
No Spool
Output
No spooled messages are being read by the
Host.
8
No Spool
Output The Host has
requested spooled
messages to be sent
by sending S6F23.
Transmit
Spool
The 7AF will send messages according to
the setting of MAXSPOOLTRANSMIT
(VID 136) .If MAXSPOOLTRANSMIT is
zero, all messages will be sent, otherwise
only the number of messages specified in
this variable will be sent.
9
No Spool
Output
The Host requests
the 7AF to purge its
spool.
Purge Spool
7AF will delete its spool.
10
Spool Output
Entire spool has
either been read or
purged by the Host.
Spool Inactive
7AF will continue normal SECS
communicating.
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