Re: [foxboro] New topic: Gradual smurf all WP's

Isolated nodebus with CP's and Gateways, 8 workstations. IA 4.3

Apparent nodebus problem, One workstation starts smurfing and after a
few
days all workstations are smurfed. Everything is still green and CP's
still
going, just no interface to workstations.
There are OM overruns and Mac Sublayer counts, CP OM overruns range from
23 to 264 for a 48 hour period.
grep jabber on /var/adm came back with nothing.

Thinking of snoop on Nodebus but due to a Comm10 connection that is only
as good as the nodebus connection which is unreliable.

Has anyone run a snoop from a laptop? If so, can you tell me how to
connect?

Anyone got anything?

Any response is appreciated.

Burnbomb

-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Johnson, Alex P (IPS)
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:22 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Display Manager fonts for FoxView

Re: Also, a new 'feature' in our case seems to be an 'extra' window
(minimized small in the upper left area of the desktop).  It is non
functional and there's nothing in it but you can't close it or otherwise
get rid of it
This issue came up as a CAR against FoxCTS somewhere or another. After
some investigation, we received a copy of the following e-mail.

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It seems that the little window in the top left hand corner of Foxview
9.02 is seen on more sites.

The problem is this:
If Foxview uses an environment that has the display bar at the left hand
side disabled by putting the command "dmcmd display_bar off" in the
*.env file AND also the reference to the display bar file
"$ENV_DIR/Operator.dbr" is removed then the little window in the top
left hand corner will appear.

The workaround is to put the reference to the display bar file back in
the *.env file: "$ENV_DIR/Operator.dbr".

Even if this *.dbr file does not exist, the reference alone should be
enough to make the little window disappear.

The problem is also documented in car 1008496.

Can you confirm that you are also seeing this problem?

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As you can see, it seems to be a specific combination of things. Try the
fix.


AJ


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From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Johnson, Theodore (Ted)
S
Sent: Wed 9/27/2006 12:35 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Display Manager fonts for FoxView
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Just an update for those who might be interested...

We did not try to reconvert (second time) using the 9.0.2 utility
because we felt at that time we had already 'invested' too much time
into the graphics migration effort after the first conversion to start
over.

The FoxView 9.0.2 did solve some of our concerns (fast blink rate on
colors is actually fast now, we use this to indicate at a glance which
loops are in alarm; and rapid input via use of ramping arrow buttons
works much better), however we still have issues with window sizing,
fonts/readability, etc.  Some of it seems to be product issues and some
seem to be configuration related.  Also, a new 'feature' in our case
seems to be an 'extra' window (minimized small in the upper left area of
the desktop).  It is non functional and there's nothing in it but you
can't close it or otherwise get rid of it.=3D20

Foxboro personnel have left the site. I am told and being reassured by
the folks in Foxboro Houston and our local service rep that they are
working on all our issues with TAC and are doing some more testing
before they return.  We are trying to work through the 'proper channels'
but are still waiting for final resolution.=3D20

Meanwhile, we have reverted back (temporarily?) to using Display
Manager.  The workstations have been changed back to boot up into
Display Manager instead of Foxview and the alarm annunciator keyboards
have been reconfigured to call up the DM graphics (instead of
FoxView).=3D20


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-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of tom.vandewater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 6:40 AM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Display Manager fonts for FoxView

Ted,
        Thanks for that information.  Please let the list know if/when
the new DM > FV conversion tool meets your expectation in regard to the
font conversion issue.
Cheers,
Tom VandeWater

-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Johnson, Theodore (Ted) S
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 1:42 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Display Manager fonts for FoxView

Over the last two years we have gone from 51B->F, v4.3->v7.1/8.1,
cp30/40->CP60/270, legacy Historian->Aim*, Nodebus/CLAN->Mesh/ATS) and
are now working on DM->FoxView.  We have also  experienced issues with
fonts and other items not working/looking/acting the same after the
conversion.  Foxboro has had various folks (on & off site) working on
our converted graphics so that they function as our operators rightfully
expect them to.  Fortunately DM and FoxView peacefully co-exist.
Anyway, there are still a couple of things that we're hoping (led to
believe) will be fixed in FoxView v9.0.2.  We have just received a copy
and a Foxboro engineer and field service rep are on-site testing/loading
the new version.

The FoxView v9.0.2 Release  Notes (P/N B0193WL Rev L, dated July 18
2006) Section 6.1.2 (entitled 'DM Font Conversion') states on page 33:

         "Previously, when DM displays were converted to FoxView
displays using conversion tools, the text indicated in displays were
sometimes of incorrect size and misaligned.  FoxView 9.0.2 includes the
functionality to handle DM conversion correctly for Solaris platforms."
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Also FYI the release notes Appendix B (entitled 'Problems Resolved in
V9.0.1') details 70 items (mainly CARs) in FoxView (40), FoxSelect (1),
FoxDraw (18), DEdit, (5), and Enhanced Detail Displays (6) that have
been addressed.

The User Notes are not yet posted on the Invensys GPS (ex-CSC) website
(controlled release?), so check with your friendly neighborhood Foxboro
service organization and/or call TAC.

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-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of stan
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:40 AM
To: Foxboro List
Subject: [foxboro] Display Manager fonts for FoxView

Does anyone know if anything ever came of the project to create a set of
fonts for FoxView that matches the Display Manager fonts?

We are converting one node, and th operators are complaining that the
resultant converted graphics are hard to read.

--
Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
(Dennis Ritchie)
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