Re: Classic historian data location(s)

Hi Stan, The Informix database (Legacy Historian) uses a raw partition, any "cooked" partitions you create for it, and the extended samples go in the sample data files. So at least two areas . . . three or more if you use cooked space for more room. Stephen Murray - Original Message --

Re: Classic historian data location(s)

On Tue May 2 02:12:03 2000 Stephen Murray wrote... > >Hi Stan, > > The Informix database (Legacy Historian) uses a raw partition, any >"cooked" partitions you create for it, and the extended samples go in the >sample data files. How do the extended samples relate to what goes in the dat

Question about /etc/aplns and /etc/wplns

I have ben working on some scripts lately that do various things on our Foxboor nodes. All of the nodes, exceept for 1 consits of one or more AP51B's, and WP51B's. On these machines ehre are the files /etc/wplns and /etc/aplns. Thes files descibe what WP's and AP's

upload/shrink/checkpoint problems

I jsut deployed my new upload/shrink/checkpoint script on a new node, and it failed during the run last night. Can anyone give me some insight into what this failure means? Here is the ouput of one station: Starting upload/checkpoint... Mon May

RE: Question about /etc/aplns and /etc/wplns

Stan, All AW's and AP's are configured with 2 names, the "AW name", and the "WP name". This is done in System Definition. The "WP name" of an AW/AP is what the Alarm Alert system uses to send alarm messages to. You will see the "WP name" for your AW51B's under "SHOW...Available WP's" in the IC

RE: Question about /etc/aplns and /etc/wplns

The AW, unlike the WP, gets two 'names' assigned. One is its letterbug (AW0400) and is the host name for the AP section of the AW code. The other (AWP400) is the WP logical name for the WP section of the AW code. AW0400 should show up in your /etc/aplns file and AWP400 in the /etc/wplns file.

RE: upload/shrink/checkpoint problems

Check the drive space on the host AP for this CP. Shrink uses extra space and you may be running out. I'm not certain but since the ICC session failed during the 'shrink' it may have left the database locked causing the remaining sessions to fail. I hate to be a killjoy but it's just these types

Re: upload/shrink/checkpoint problems

On Tue May 2 08:43:27 2000 Stear, Bo wrote... > >Check the drive space on the host AP for this CP. Shrink uses extra space >and you may be running out. >I'm not certain but since the ICC session failed during the 'shrink' it may >have left the database locked causing the remaining sessions to fa

Re: Question about /etc/aplns and /etc/wplns

On Tue May 2 08:35:01 2000 Stear, Bo wrote... > >The AW, unlike the WP, gets two 'names' assigned. One is its letterbug >(AW0400) and is the host name for the AP section of the AW code. The other >(AWP400) is the WP logical name for the WP section of the AW code. AW0400 >should show up in your

Re: Question about /etc/aplns and /etc/wplns

On Tue May 2 08:29:32 2000 Lowell, Tim: wrote... > >Stan, > >All AW's and AP's are configured with 2 names, the "AW name", and the "WP >name". This is done in System Definition. The "WP name" of an AW/AP is >what the Alarm Alert system uses to send alarm messages to. You will see >the "WP name

RE: upload/shrink/checkpoint problems

That seems to be more than enough disk space. Look on your system in /opt/fox/bin/tools for a directory called 'check_sync'. If you have it there, cd to /opt/fox/bin/tools/check_sync and run 'check_db_sync where LETTERBUG is the letterbug name of your CP. If this fails, you're in trouble. If you

Re: upload/shrink/checkpoint problems

Check the swap space on the AP that host this CP. If there is too little swap space the shrink will fail and the "work file" can disappear. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05/02/2000 08:15:25 AM Please respond to "Foxboro DCS Mail List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

RE: XVision on Win98/remote PC displays

If you are looking at remote PC displays, I would suggest you consider NCD Xterminals. Foxboro resells them, or you can buy them outright. They have no hard drive, (boot of the network), so they are pretty rugged. No fonts to download/compile. Also, if an operator powers them down, nothing is hu

RE: Classic historian data location(s)

Stan, The I/A Series Historian, a.k.a, the "old" Historian and the "data" Historian, works as follows: 1) The last two hundred samples are kept in a standard UNIX flat file. The format is proprietary. These samples were originally used only to support the recent history option of the trend

Re: XVision on Win98

Duc, I know this is no help to you, but I run Go-Global here and our '95 machines do fine. However, I have '98 SE on my home PC and have similar problems. In ICC sometimes I have to repick all the fields (which are blank) to get data to appear and then it will al

RE: XVision on Win98

RE: XVision on Win98 We use a combination of Exceed, Go Global, Windows 3.1 (yeah I know its old), Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT.   Depending on the operating system and video card, we can use either 256 colors or True Color settings.  They all act a little differently.  The

RE: XVision on Win98

Daren, GoGlobal - which is much, much faster than eXceed - does not have functionality equivalent to eXceed's "backing store" and "save unders". For this reason, it does not refresh the buttons of our "Remote Draw" applications. The most common "Remote Draw" applications are the ICC and the Proce

remote PC displays

Another good supplier of remote displays (for X-windows) is Neoware (http://www.neoware.com), with their Neostation. They also have a version that runs with MS Terminal Server, but why settle for an imitation (Micro$oft), when you can have the real thing (X-windows). If all you need is a screen

Answer to shrink failure.

Thanks to Foxbor's excelent technical support group (thanks Ed & Stan), I can now sucesfully srhink my CP images on the machine this was failing on. They found, hidden in a dark and dusty corner of thier database, that if a stray eject process was runing, s

RE: Classic historian data location(s)

RE: Classic historian data location(s) Hi Stan, >   How do the extended samples relate to what goes in the database? >   Oh, and where are they located? >   The SAM files are located in /opt/fox/hstorian/sample.   There is a very good write up in the Historian manual in the

Re: Classic historian data location(s)

On Tue May 2 10:41:43 2000 Johnson,Alex wrote... > >Stan, > >The I/A Series Historian, a.k.a, the "old" Historian and the "data" >Historian, works as follows: *** Truly excelent discussion of the subjetc sniped ** Thanks for the excelent knowledge imparted here! I do have one more questiosn,

RE: Disappearing fields in Exceed (was XVision on Win98 )

If you are having problems with "disappearing fields" in Exceed, make sure Save Unders is enabled and Backing Store is set. To do this, open the xconfig icon under Exceed. Open the performance icon under xconfig. Make sure there is a check mark in the box next to Save Unders. Next to Maximum B

Re: XVision on Win98/remote PC displays

On Tue May 2 10:21:00 2000 Dusing, Lance D. wrote... > >If you are looking at remote PC displays, I would suggest you consider NCD >Xterminals. > >Foxboro resells them, or you can buy them outright. >They have no hard drive, (boot of the network), so they are pretty rugged. >No fonts to download

RE: XVision on Win98

What are the settings to uses in Exceed for: - Maximum Backing Store - Default Backing Store When I resize or minimize the exceed window of ICC configurator I lose the up/down navigation arrows and sometimes the Compound/Block listing on the left side of the screen. Will eXceed's "backing store"

RE: upload/shrink/checkpoint problems

Another source of problems could be that someone left the ICC open on the volume you were trying to shrink. Try to shrink it again by hand and see if you still have the problem. Regards, Alex Johnson The Foxboro Company 10707 Haddington Houston, TX 77043 713.722.2859 (v) 713.722.2700 (sb) 713.9

RE: XVision on Win98

Yes, this should fix the problem. Check the Save Unders box Maximum Backing Store - Always Default Backing Store - When Mapped Minimum Backing Store - When Mapped Kevin FitzGerrell Fairbanks Gold Mining, Inc. original message--- Subject: RE: XVision on Win98 D

RE: Classic historian data location(s)

AIM*Historian uses flat files to store all of its data since they provide much faster insertion and query support. AIM*Historian does supply an ODBC front-end that makes the data appear as if it is in a simple relational database. AIM*Historian also provides an export facility that would allow y

RE: XVision on Win98

FYI, Many of the buttons on the ICC under GoGlobal can be refreshed by going into and out of the Paste Buffer. (The BUFFER pick on the ICC's menu bar.) Regards, Alex Johnson The Foxboro Company 10707 Haddington Houston, TX 77043 713.722.2859 (v) 713.722.2700 (sb) 713.932.0222 (f) [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: XVision on Win98

Yes. Regards, Alex Johnson The Foxboro Company 10707 Haddington Houston, TX 77043 713.722.2859 (v) 713.722.2700 (sb) 713.932.0222 (f) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Loupe, Rory [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, M

save_all.sh update information

For those of you using the save_all.sh script, and for anyone else who is lucky :-( enough to have Spectrm Interface Processors, we aparently have discoverd a bug which prevents uploading these units. I appears that an upload, wither from the Integrated Control

Re: Classic historian data location(s)

On Tue May 2 12:38:07 2000 Johnson,Alex wrote... > >AIM*Historian uses flat files to store all of its data since they provide >much faster insertion and query support. > >AIM*Historian does supply an ODBC front-end that makes the data appear as if >it is in a simple relational database.

Re: XVision on Win98

At 08:42 AM 5/2/00 -0500, Daren Bishop wrote: > I know this is no help to you, but I run Go-Global here and our '95 > machines do fine. However, I have '98 SE on my home PC and have > similar problems. In ICC sometimes I have to repick all the fields > (which are blank) to get

Process Alarms

Hi all Has anyone done any work(or have examples) of extracting process alarms from I/A and converting to text type file ? Do they reside in the historian or informix or some other file system ? Thanks In Advance Mark --- Thi

RE: Classic historian data location(s)

Re: ODBC I don't know how sophisticated a query it can support, but AIM* is definitely not a relational database. [Do you really want to do a join of pressure and temperature using time as the key? That's about the only type of query that you could do. I guess a pressure vs. temperature curve w

RE: Process Alarms

Frankly, the best way to do this is one of the following: 1) Add FoxAMI to your system and store the messages there 2) Use a PC as your "alarm printer" and one of several 3rd party packages to capture the alarms. After that the options are worse, 1) The I/A Series Historian maint

RE: Process Alarms

At 02:48 PM 5/2/00 -0400, Johnson,Alex wrote: >2) Use a PC as your "alarm printer" and one of several 3rd party >packages to capture the alarms. We do something similar. We feed all the process alarms (and system alarms, too, for that matter) to a VAX. Our friendly VAX guru sets up automatic

RE: XVision on Win98

Hi Alex, Excellent tip! I have depended on memorizing the location of the "Cancel" button in the ICC to get me out of trouble in Go Global when I have a block open (Buffer is not available then). To re-display disappeared menus I have been going back and forth between View Compound List & Vie

RE: External Horn For Process Alarms

I have a question about the horn.cfg file when used to sound an external horn. I am going to use an example to pose my question. If I have 3 WPs, each specifying different external horns to sound on Priority 1 -5 alarms (so I have a total of 15 digital outputs), what happens when one of the WP's

RE: External Horn For Process Alarms

The CAG is good for two things: 1) Silencing all horns on the WPs in the CAG when the horn is silenced on any WP in the group. 2) Clearing an alarm from all WPs in the CAG when the alarm is cleared from any other WP in the group. When the horn silence button is pressed on an annunciato

RE: External Horn For Process Alarms - CAG note

I meant to add something about the CAG. I don't like it very much because it's operations are broadcast based. In one large system with a heavy number of broadcasts, we found that 75% of the broadcasts were CAG broadcasts. Since this customer is using the CAG to silence the horns only, I suggest

Re:RE: External Horn For Process Alarms

Marci, There is no automatic backup for the horn.cfg. Each station that is configured to trip a COUT or make a workstation sound basis a certain priority alarm, will trip that COUT or make that sound whenever it receives an alarm with that priority. If you want a backup, you will need to make s

RE: Process Alarms

Hi Mark, I think I've something going. I have an 'Apache web server' running on one of my WPs for easy access of whatever to whoever. :-) Users can look up, among other things, the alarm history. The script that runs when the user select 'Caster alarm history' looks like this: #!/bin/sh # rsh

Re: Process Alarms

On Tue May 2 17:41:07 2000 Schouten, Frits JF wrote... > >Hi Mark, >I think I've something going. >I have an 'Apache web server' running on one of my WPs for easy access of whatever to >whoever. :-) >Users can look up, among other things, the alarm history. Very interesting! Got any mo

RE: Process Alarms

Yep, like the following: Current Steel Analysis, Machine parts, Heatlogs, Anomalies, Message log, Production schedule, SlabCaster Status, Ladle treatment status, etc, etc. Some extract data from Informix, some straight out of C:B.Ps But generally in concept all the same as the first one I showed