Jeremy, Matrikon Alarm Manager also uses a method that is implemented strictly over the 2nd Ethernet port, although they have yet to release a product for I/A version 8.x on the Windows platform. Alarm Manager runs a small program on the Unix AW that is built using Object Manager API calls that sits and listens for alarms much like a WP, AW, or printer would. You configure the six-character name of the Alarm Manager program as a device in the Compound or Station Block in the same manner you would a WP, AW or printer. The Alarm Manager program is configured to catch the alarms in a buffer and relay them over the 2nd Ethernet port to the Alarm Manager server. Matrikon is working on a method for version 8.x that uses ODBC calls into AIM*Historian that extracts the alarms and events periodically and sends them to a server, but it isn't ready for public consumption. They haven't been able to duplicate the functionality of their Unix interface because Foxboro won't release the OM API header files in Windows. I'm not sure about LogMate, but I think even their most recent versions use only the Serial port, or at least I am not aware of another way for LogMate to use anything but a Serial port. You can purchase a device from TiPS that converts the Serial information to Ethernet and sends the alarms to the LogMate server via TCP/IP without the LogMate server physically being connected to the I/A system. Tim Lowell Control Systems Engineer Tesoro Petroleum Company 210-283-2929 (w) 210-253-0225 (c) tlowell@xxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeremy Milum Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:17 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] Logmate alarm collection I am thinking about getting the Logmate software from TIPS. They want to hook up to my AWs via the serial ports and collect the alarms in realtime by emulating a line printer. I would prefer to just have them parse the alarm history file which can be collected on a scheduled basis via the 2nd ethernet cards in my AWs. has anyone used logmate in that way? =20 =20 _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html =20 foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: = mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Djoin to unsubscribe: = mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Dleave =20 _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave