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When an alarm condition arises, you MUST investigate and resolve the problem. Once resolved,
manually clear the alarm using the “Clear selected” or “Clear all” buttons. See Sections 2.7
Troubleshooting Reader Communications and 5.9 Troubleshooting the Visualizer for more information.
Alarm Enable
o Set selected – Select this button to enable alarms for the selected Reader
o Set All – Select this button to enable alarms for all Readers
Statistics by Reader
The following is a list of the statistical fields and their meaning:
o Reader – Name of the Reader for which the position statistics apply
o IP Address/ID – MAC address of the Reader
o Status – Operational status of the Reader—COMMS DOWN, operational, or not used. A
Reader is marked as COMMS DOWN if a packet has not be received within a given
timeout. The timeout is set using the Menu Bar / Settings / Timeouts… submenu item.
See Figure 5-13: Timeouts Dialog
o Uptime – Time lapsed since power-up or the last reboot of the Reader
o TOA failures – Number of computed TOA values that did not meet reliability criteria
o CRC failures – Number of Tag packets received that failed the CRC check
o False detects – Number times a signal was detected but was not a received Tag packet
o Alarm status – Current alarm status bitmask for the given Reader.
- Bit 0 indicates that the Reader’s phase-locked loop oscillator has lost
synchronization with the SDP.
- Bit 1 indicates that a reboot has occurred.
- Bit 2 indicates a Sync Marker failure.
o Lock failures – Number of times the Reader lost lock (was out of phase lock) with the SDP
5.2.3 Settings
Figure 5-12 : Settings Menu
Use the Settings menu to:
1) Specify timeout parameters for both Readers and Tags