FEP Details Components
The FEP Details tool is comprised of two main sections:-
• Common Options
• Connection List
FEP Common Options
The FEP Common options are typically the following:
• Control: The configured state of the FEP. This is updated by actions menu options.
• Status: The actual state of the FEP as reported by the system (not editable).
• Name: A unique FEP name in the system, used for logging audit messages and errors.
• Description: Optional description.
• Debug: Defines whether internal debug information is logged for this FEP or not.
• Keep Alive: The interval in milliseconds between keep alive messages to the FEP. A value of zero disables the keep alive functionality.
• Retry Interval: The connection retry time in milliseconds.
FEP Connections List
This section allows the configuration of one or more connections between the NMS system and the FEP itself. This could be redundant connections to the same FEP instance or connections to redundant FEPs. Connections can be added or removed as required, and also enabled or disabled from a right-click context menu.
Each connection has the following options:
• Control: The configured state of the connection. This is edited by actions menu options.
• Status: The actual state of the connection as reported by the system (not editable).
• Name: A unique (on the FEP) name for the connection, used for logging audit messages and errors.
• Description: Optional description.
• Order: A defined order to try the connections - lowest value first.
• IP Address: The TCP/IP address of the FEP for the connection.
• Port: The TCP/IP port for the connection.
IED Monitor
The IED Monitor List is a table that shows the current state of all Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) configured in the system. Each row in the IED monitor list shows information about an IED and a specific connection configured for that IED. Therefore if an IED has multiple configured connections then that IED may show up in the list multiple times, once for each connection. Only one IED row can be selected and a time and when a IED is selected a right click context menu allows you to choose from the available actions to be performed on that IED. The context menu will only show that actions valid for the current state of the IED, for example if the IED is in the enabled state then the Enable IED option will not be available.
The IED Monitor tool consists of two sections: