Good point. The port of FoxAPI to NT did not change much and I tend to
forget NT.
> -----Original Message-----
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: FoxAPi for PI (Process Information Real Time Data Base)
>
> I checked my NT nodes and the gateway number is also set to 1.
>
> Thanks-
>
> Marci Sewell
> Process Automation and Control
> 115 Bldg, Mail 032
> ph: (517)496-5071 page: (517)926-1487
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnson,Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 8:32 PM
> To: Foxboro DCS Mail List
> Subject: RE: FoxAPi for PI (Process Information Real Time Data Base)
>
>
> On the AW51, the AIS/FoxAPI gateway number is always 1.
>
> Before AW51s, AIS ran on a VAX and spoke to as many as 16 (12? I can't
> remember) gateways. These gateways were called INI-10s (later the INI-15
> same hardware more functional software).
>
> When AIS was ported to the AW51, the gateway argument was retained for
> backwards compatibility of the calls.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex Johnson
> The Foxboro Company
> 10707 Haddington
> Houston, TX 77043
> 713.722.2859 (v)
> 713.722.2700 (sb)
> 713.932.0222 (f)
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eudilson Nunez Cossio [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 3:22 PM
> To: Foxboro DCS Mail List
> Subject: FoxAPi for PI (Process Information Real Time Data
> Base)
>
> Hi list,
>
> We are in process to install a real time data base (PI) in our
> refinery in
> order to integrate all the information existing, for example Foxboro
> I/A
> DCS, Factory Link, Honeywell TPS, etc.
> We need information about the parameter "Location1" on PI
> configarion with
> FoxAPI that describes:
>
> This parameter is the result of calculating (n*100 + x ) where n is
> the
> computer number in the range 1 to 99 and x is the IA interface
> number or
> gateway number. The computer number associates PI tags with an
> interface and
> is an arbitrary parameter that is set in the interface script file
> fxbais.sh. The gateway number ranges from 1 to m, the maximum number
> of
> gateways set by the Foxboro AIS. A gateway number associates PI tags
> with a
> DNBI or an INI and corresponds to a gateway number configured in
> AIS. For
> the interface the gateway numbers are configurable parameters in the
> script
> file fxbais.sh. The two values combine to give a range for Location1
> of 101
> to 9900+m. The interface does not use the AIS options of load
> leveling and
> automatic assignment of gateway numbers.
>
> Some one knows what is the "gateway number" in a configuration for a
> DCS I/A
> Foxboro?
>
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Sincerely,
> Eudilson Nunez
>
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