6 – Configuration Using ISiCL
T1 CrossConnect Installation & Operation Manual
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6.8 General Format of ISiCL Responses
Upon receiving a valid command, a device always responds initially with the line:
*OK
This line indicates only that a valid command was received, and not necessarily that the device itself is
“okay.” If the received command is
SET
and does not require any explicit response, no additional
response lines are generated. However, if the received command is
CONFIG?
or
STATUS?
, the
*OK
line is followed by one or more lines that contain the requested information.
If the received command is invalid (for example, if it contains an unrecognizable command or an
invalid subaddress), the addressed device responds with one of three invalid command response
formats:
*WHAT?;
or
*WHAT? <descriptive message>;
or
*WHAT? <descriptive message>
<rest of descriptive message>;
The last line of an ISiCL response, and only the last line, terminates with a semicolon (
;
). All
responses are immediately followed by a carriage return and line feed
<cr><lf>
.
6.9 Alert/Alarm Status Check
You can determine the overall alert and alarm status of a DCS by issuing a STATUS? command to its
CM-95 module. For example, to determine the overall status, issue a command of the form:
<address>:DCS:STATUS?:;
The response to this command shows the status of the remote alarms for the six DCS ports and
indicates whether any of them is in an alert or alarm state. If no DCS ports are in alert or alarm
states, the DCS responds as follows to a STATUS? command:
*OK
ALERT=OFF
FAIL=OFF
This response indicates that no alerts or alarms are detected. A remote alarm for one port would
indicate that there is a problem somewhere on the line, not that there is an error in the signal. A bit
indicating the problem is set in the signal, and this bit triggers an alert (
ALERT=ON
). If there is a
remote alarm for two or more ports, the signals at these ports trigger alarms (
FAIL=ON
), and there is
no alert (
ALERT=OFF
). The alert response is only for one port in an alarm condition.
If all six ports are in an alarm state, the DCS generates a response with the this format:
*OK
ALERT=OFF
FAIL=ON
YEL1
YEL2
YEL3
YEL4
YEL5
YEL6;
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