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		RS232 Data Logging and Display AlarmLogger turns any PC into a cost effective data logging and display terminal. It provides an alternative to running and maintaining your line printers and also makes a great addition to any control room setting with features like fully definable displays, events, colors and sounds. Screen Shot... Features Printer subistution with up to 16 indepentantly configurable RS232 connections. Configurable Event Actions that include sending E-Mail, Text to Speech and launching applicaitons. Screen formatting of Event Colors, Fonts and Backgrounds. On Screen text and event searching. Runs as a "Service" under Windows NT, W2000, XP and Vista. A powerful scripting engine provides user definition of any events. User defined event driven sounds Automatic reconnection to failed ports and junk data logging ensures no data loss. Automatic archiving and zip compression of Log files. Logs to raw, text and AlarmAnalyst data formats. Operates on any Windows platform. Low cost - Why should you pay thousands of dollars for printer substitution software? Benefits Estimated savings of more than $2,000 / year per printer replaced * Use as low-cost Display Terminals Provides long term data archiving. Detailed Description AlarmLogger has two distinct modes of operation Raw and Interpreted. In Raw mode AlarmLogger acts like a basic terminal program. In this mode all data is displayed as received with older information at the top of the screen and newer information filled in at the bottom. For each configured RS232 connection, font, font color, background color and data logging options can be set individually. In Interpreted mode, the format of received information is recognized and the assigned display settings and actions are handled. For example, a particular event may be contained in a single line or it could extend over many lines. The entire event can be defined, captured and formatted for display. When running in Interpreted mode, the most recent events are placed at the top of the screen and older events are pushed down. This significantly improves display readability. As well, the defined events can be logged to file while unrecognized events are sent to a Junk log to ensure no data is loss. A map is configured to define the incoming data structure using industry standard Regular Expression syntax. AlarmLogger provides the ability to automatically archive and compress all log files. With compression 100,000 events will require about 1MB of hard disk space and make it possible to easily maintain years of data. AlarmLogger can be installed in a variety of ways. A basic installation may have AlarmLogger running on a standalone PC with RS-232 access being performed by the PC's local COM ports. With optional USB or multiple COM port adapter cards, up to 16 RS232 ports can be utilized in this configuration. When utilized in a networked configuration, RS232 data is tunneled over standard LANs or corporate networks via RS232 ethernet servers. This configuration provides several advantages: RS232 devices can be miles away from AlarmLogger. Existing corporate networks can be utilized to integrate RS232 data. All data is logged in a central location. AlarmLogger is typically installed on existing PC's and business networks. For basic data logging and display, a PII PC running at 266MHz on any Windows operating system is more than sufficient.
			AlarmLogger Configuration Options: RS232 over Ethernet Enables RS232 data to be transferred across your network. Any device with a serial interface can move data across your network to centralize RS232 data collection and display. System Architecture...
			Parallel to RS232 conversion Provides direct parallel port (LPT) connection and printer emulation. Allows interface to systems without RS232 ports.
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