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GuardianManual001‐5006‐000Rev0 27|Page
4 UNITSTATUS
TheUnitStatuswindowsdisplaydeviceGeneralandDiagnosticinformation.
4.1 UNITIDENTIFICATIONANDSTATUS
EachGuardianhasaddressingcapabilitywhichisusedfordiagnosticsandremotecommandsonly.
4.1.1.1 IDNUMBER
Thisvalue(maximum1023)isassignedatthefactorybutmaybemodifiedusingtheFieldProgrammingSoftware.
TheIDNumberisusedtouniquelyidentifytheGuardianforremotecommandsandOfflineDiagnostics.TheID
Numbermayhavevalueswithintherangeof1to4294967295butmultiplesof1024
shouldnotbeused
4.1.1.2 SHORTID 
Thisvalue(maximum1023)istheloworder10bitsoftheIDNumber.Itisusedtoidentifyonlinediagnosticsonly.
ItmaynotbemodifieddirectlyusingtheFieldProgrammingSoftware;itisalwaysderivedfromtheIDNumber.All
unitswithinanetworkshouldhaveuniqueShortID
numberstoavoidambiguityinOnlineDiagnosticsreports.
TheGuardianFieldProgrammingSoftwaremaybeusedtocheckthevalueoftheShortID.Whensettingupa
network,werecommendcheckingeachunittomakesurethereisnoduplicationofShortIDnumbers.
Duplicationsmayberesolvedby
changingtheShortIDNumber.
IfIDNumbersaresetwithintherangeof1to1023,theIDNumberandtheShortIDwillalwayshavethesame
value(seeTable1‐4).
4.2 DIAGNOSTICS
Guardianunitscontinuallymonitorandreportontheirenvironmentalandoperatingconditions.
4.2.1 ONLINEDIAGNOSTICS
Informationisautomaticallysentbyeachunitatthebeginningofeverytransmission.
MaybedisabledforbackcompatibilitywithDataradioT‐Modem96orMotorolaRNet9600.OnlineDiagnostics
(statistics)requiretheuseofanetworkconfigurationsuchasthatspecifiedinthe“NetworkUsingT‐Base”or
“NetworkUsing
GUARDIANforOnlineDiagnostics”sections.Onlinediagnosticsdonotinterferewithnormal
networkoperation.Onlinediagnosticsprovidefourtypesofinformation:
 DCInputVoltage
 TransceiverTemperature
 PAForwardPower
 PAReversePower