User`s guide

Interpreting Screen Displays
MS-4900, Rev. A 4–9
Check Output
Ports (cont’d)
The Diagnostics screens provide a serial port test through which you can send a
repeating test pattern to the designated port.
The test pattern continues through that port until you press the CANCEL button.
Any network data output received during the test is interleaved with the test pattern.
NOTE: The test pattern is selected through the Set Features/Diagnostic Out Style
screen. The test can be either a repeating Roman alphabet or a “head”
data stream, which is a special, incrementing number stream.
Diagnostics
Screens
The last Diagnostics screen, Statistics Logger, is useful primarily for extended
monitoring or debugging. The Stat Logger uses one of the serial ports to send
superscreen updates to the connected PC or serial printer, using that serial port’s
asynchronous settings. (Normal data cannot be output through that serial port while
the Stat Logger is on.)
NOTE: Call your support representative if you need to use the Stat Logger.
Serial 1 Output
Test in Progress
Diagnostics:
Test Serial 1