General Troubleshooting of the Automation 8000 NT Software

As an aid to general troubleshooting and resolving alarm conditions of the Automation 8000 NT Software, a separate group of screens is available for inputs and outputs. Automation 8000 NT displays these “I/O Status” screen. This screen shows the current state of all I/O. It is arranged into bases and points. These correspond to the number of bases and points used (boards, digital and analog modules, etc.).

Tagnames, such as "I-LOLEV07" in the Base 6 section of the automation software, represent a module on the I/O rack. Tagnames and physical modules can be easily matched by comparing wire numbers within Automation 8000 NT. If "I-LOLEV07" is on base 6, and is point 4, it corresponds to the module attached to wire number 64. Likewise, base 14, point 7, corresponds to wire number 147.

A description of the point may be obtained by clicking on the tagname in Automation 8000 NT. The description appears in the Status Bar of the software. In the example of “I-LOLEV07”, the description may be displayed as “Low Level Station 7”.

Next to each tagname is a box. If the point is on a digital module, the value is represented as either the color red ("ON") or black ("OFF"). If the module is analog, a numeric value is displayed.