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Application Processes Screen
The Application Processes Screen selection is used to examine and modify the names of
the Ethernet Interface Application Processes, along with certain addressing information.
The different communication services are accessed by establishing an association with
the appropriate Ethernet Interface Application Process. Each application has a default
name assigned to it, but you may reassign these names.
Devices establishing connections to these applications will need the addressing information shown on this screen in order to properly set up connections to one of these applications. Depending on your network configuration, this information will either be entered
directly into the other device, or will be available through a directory server on your network.
For a basicnetwork if you are not using the default parameters, the only information you
need to enter is
H
H
MMS RESPONDER - Common Name, PSAP, SSAP
APPLICATION_INTERFACE - Common Name, PSAP, SSAP
The Application Processes screen is shown below:
Figure 3-9. Application Processes Screen
The Application Processes parameters are defined as follows:
COMMON_NAME - The Common Name of the Application Process. Each Common
Name should be unique on the network. Consists of 1 to 64 characters.
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H
For MMS RESPONDER - defaults to “RESP” + MAC_ADDRESS. For MMS
RESPONDER - corresponds to Station Manager Parameter arespcnam.
H
For APPLICATION_INTERFACE - defaults to “APPL” + MAC_ADDRESS. For
APPLICATION_INTERFACE - corresponds to Station Manager Parameter applcnam.
MMS-Ethernet Communications for the Series 90-70 PLC User’s Manual - May 1994
GFK-0868