Sutron 8310 - Page 138

Sutron Corporation 8310 & 7310 Users Manual 8800-1125Rev. 2.7 (BETA) 4/16/2014 pg. 138
Diagnostics/Communications
The Diagnostics/Communications menu will appear similar to the one below, listing only those
communications devices that have been configured as installed into the system.
Communications (3)
COM1: (Standy-On) > Direct
COM2: (Standby-On) > SATLINK
LAN (Standby-On) >
Reset Com Device
End Communications
Each line of the menu up to and include the LAN entry represent sub-menus for each of the
installed communications devices. Each menu title shows the current status of the device
(Standby-On, Standby-Off, Disabled, Waiting, Starting, Stopping, Rescheduling, etc.). The type of
the device installed is shown to the right (or, on line 2 of the front panel display menu).
Press RIGHT to enter the diagnostics menu for a device. The diagnostics menus for each of the
possible device types is discussed next.
Direct / Modem / Radio / RS485 / Voice COMx:Test
The Direct diagnostic menu follows:
Rx:0/0,0 bad Tx:0/0,0 bad
Turn On radio
Turn off radio
Read Mail Messages
Send Mail Message
Send test alarm tx
End Direct COM1: Test
See the following table for descriptions of each function:
Rx:0/0, 0 bad
Received data statistics (good packets to this unit/total
packets seen, bad crc packets)
Tx:0/0, 0 bad
Transmitted data statistics (packets successfully tx /total
packets tx, failed tx)
Turn on radio
Assert RTS
Turn off radio
Deassert RTS
Read mail messages
Check for received SSP mail messages
Send mail message
Send an SSP mail message to another unit
Send test alarm tx
Send a test alarm transmission
Satlink COMx: Test
The Satlink diagnostic menu follows:
SelfTimed message
Message
Num Chars = 0 Num secs = 0.0
Random message