Setup guide

Setting up the Host to Reference the I/O Rack

These variables are:

Variable Description

ERSTAT_x_BOARDSTATUS Board status code. Always present.

ERSTAT_x_BATSTAT Battery status. Always present.

ERSTAT_x_HOTCARDSTAT Hot Card Replacement in progress. Always present.

ERSTAT_x_HOTCARDCT Count of number of hot card replacement operations

ERSTAT_x_DOWNTIMEUSER User configured down time for I/O Expansion Rack

ERSTAT_x_DOWNTIMEACT Actual time rack was down

ERSTAT_x_WRITECT Number of writes to rack

ERSTAT_x_READCT Number of reads (updates sent from rack)

ERSTAT_x_CONNECTS Number of IP connections or re-connects to rack

ERSTAT_x_HEARTBEAT Heartbeat count

ERSTAT_x_MASTER_IS_B This is used in Redundant I/O Racks. This value is set

TRUE when the “B” unit is the primary online (master)

unit.

ERSTAT_x_STBYVALID This is used in Redundant I/O Racks. This value is set

TRUE when the standby (backup) unit is ready to take over

in the event of a failure of the primary online unit (master).

ERSTAT_x_FAILOVERERR This is used in Redundant I/O Racks. This is set TRUE if

an error occurs during an attempted forced failover from

the online unit to the backup unit.

ERSTAT_x_REDUNSTAT This is used in Redundant I/O Racks. This is a status code

related to redundant operations.

ERSTAT_x_FAILOVER_O This is used in Redundant I/O Racks. It may be set TRUE

by the user’s application to force a failover between the

online rack and the backup rack. After the failover occurs,

it will automatically be set FALSE. If it is set TRUE, and

remains TRUE, that means a forced failover was not

possible.

ERSTAT_x_BDSTR1 to

ERSTAT_x_BDSTR8

ID strings for I/O cards in the rack.