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NI-FBUSTM Monitor User Manual
NI-FBUS Monitor User Manual
June 2004 Edition
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Contents
About This Manual
Conventions ...................................................................................................................ix
Related Documentation..................................................................................................x
Chapter 1
Introduction
NI-FBUS Monitor Overview .........................................................................................1-1
Windows of the NI-FBUS Monitor ...............................................................................1-1
Recommended Minimum Platform ...............................................................................1-1
Chapter 2
Installation and Configuration
Installing the Software ...................................................................................................2-1
Installing the Hardware..................................................................................................2-1
Configuring the Software...............................................................................................2-2
Configuration Steps for Windows 2000/NT/XP .............................................2-2
Interface Port Configuration............................................................................2-2
Starting the NI-FBUS Monitor Driver (Win NT 4.0 Only) ...........................................2-2
Chapter 3
Windows and Menus
List of Windows.............................................................................................................3-1
About the NI-FBUS Monitor Interface..........................................................................3-2
Main Window ................................................................................................................3-3
Menus and the Standard Toolbar ...................................................................................3-4
Standard Toolbar .............................................................................................3-5
Main Menu Bar................................................................................................3-6
File Menu ..........................................................................................3-6
Capture Menu....................................................................................3-7
View Menu........................................................................................3-8
Packet Menu......................................................................................3-8
Statistics Menu..................................................................................3-8
Window Menu...................................................................................3-8
Toolbars Menu ..................................................................................3-8
Help Menu.........................................................................................3-9
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Filter Window................................................................................................................ 3-9
Packet View .................................................................................................... 3-10
Packet Display Formats .................................................................... 3-10
Packet View Toolbar ........................................................................ 3-11
Statistics View................................................................................................. 3-13
Statistics View Toolbar .................................................................... 3-14
Live List View ................................................................................................ 3-15
Schedule View ................................................................................................ 3-15
Filters............................................................................................................................. 3-15
Filter Operation During Capture ..................................................................... 3-15
Filter Operation After Capture ........................................................................ 3-15
Basic Filter Logic............................................................................................ 3-16
Filter Dialog Box ............................................................................................ 3-16
FDL Filter Tab.................................................................................. 3-17
FMS Filter Tab ................................................................................. 3-18
Filter by Address Tab ....................................................................... 3-19
Settings Dialog Box....................................................................................................... 3-19
Capture Settings Tab....................................................................................... 3-19
Display Settings Tab ....................................................................................... 3-21
Toolbar Settings Tab....................................................................................... 3-22
Chapter 4
How To Use the NI-FBUS Monitor
Starting the NI-FBUS Monitor...................................................................................... 4-1
Starting Capture............................................................................................................. 4-1
Stopping Capture ...........................................................................................................4-2
Saving Data ................................................................................................................... 4-2
Finding Data .................................................................................................................. 4-2
Viewing Data................................................................................................................. 4-3
Improving Performance................................................................................................. 4-4
Conserve Memory........................................................................................... 4-4
Turn Live Updates Off.................................................................................... 4-4
Filter Only for Needed Data............................................................................ 4-4
No Split Windows........................................................................................... 4-4
Appendix A
Pinout Information
Appendix B
Technical Support and Professional Services
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Glossary
Index
Contents
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About This Manual
This manual describes the NI-FBUS Monitor utility, its features,
and how to install and use it.
The NI-FBUS Monitor utility is intended for use with
Windows 2000/NT/XP.
Conventions
The following conventions appear in this manual:
» The » symbol leads you through nested menu items and dialog box options
to a final action. The sequence File»Page Setup»Options directs you to
pull down the File menu, select the Page Setup item, and select Options
from the last dialog box.
This icon denotes a note, which alerts you to important information.
This icon denotes a caution, which advises you of precautions to take to
avoid injury, data loss, or a system crash.
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take precautions to avoid electrical shock.
When symbol is marked on a product, it denotes a component that may be
hot. Touching this component may result in bodily injury.
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as menu items and dialog box options. Bold text also denotes parameter
names.
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to a key concept. This font also denotes text that is a placeholder for a word
or value that you must supply.
monospace Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should enter from the
keyboard, sections of code, programming examples, and syntax examples.
This font is also used for the proper names of disk drives, paths, directories,
programs, subprograms, subroutines, device names, functions, operations,
variables, filenames, and extensions.
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monospace bold Bold text in this font denotes the messages and responses that the computer
automatically prints to the screen. This font also emphasizes lines of code
that are different from the other examples.
monospace italic
NI-FBUS In this manual, the term NI-FBUS, when used alone, refers to the NI-FBUS
Italic text in this font denotes text that is a placeholder for a word or value
that you must supply.
Communications Manager.
Related Documentation
The following documents contain information that you might find helpful
as you read this manual:
• Fieldbus Standard for Use in Industrial Control Systems, Part 2,
ISA-S50.02.1992
• AT-FBUS Getting Started Manual
• PCI-FBUS Getting Started Manual
• PCMCIA-FBUS Getting Started Manual
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Introduction
This chapter contains an overview of the NI-FBUS Monitor.
NI-FBUS Monitor Overview
The NI-FBUS Monitor is a Win32 application used to monitor, debug,
and analyze fieldbus data packets. The NI-FBUS Monitor detects
communication on the bus, capturing data packets that are passed between
fieldbus devices. These packets are time-stamped and displayed in real
time in active packet view of the NI-FBUS Monitor. The NI-FBUS
Monitor can display data packets in decoded format or in hexadecimal
format. The NI-FBUS Monitor can filter out unwanted data packets at three
levels: the Fieldbus Data Link layer (FDL), the Fieldbus Messaging
Specification layer (FMS), and by fieldbus addresses.
Windows of the NI-FBUS Monitor
The NI-FBUS Monitor has a Multiple Document Interface (MDI). An MDI
window contains many smaller windows open concurrently that display
data from different sources. These smaller windows are called filter
windows. In the NI-FBUS Monitor, some filter windows might contain
previously-captured data, while other filter windows might capture new
data from different buses or the same bus.
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Chapter 3, Windows and Menus, lists and describes the windows of the
NI-FBUS Monitor.
Recommended Minimum Platform
The recommended minimum platform for the NI-FBUS Monitor is a
66 MHz 486 processor with 8 MB of RAM. If you want to run the
NI-FBUS Monitor on a slower platform, refer to the Improving
Performance section of Chapter 4, How To Use the NI-FBUS Monitor.
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Installation and Configuration
This chapter contains instructions for installing and configuring your
NI-FBUS Monitor software and your fieldbus interface.
Installing the Software
Caution If you are installing the NI-FBUS software over an existing version, write down
your card configuration and any port configuration parameters you changed from their
defaults. Reinstalling may cause you to lose any existing card and port configuration
information.
Complete the following steps to run the software installation program.
1. Login as Administrator or as a user with Administrator privileges.
2. Insert your NI-FBUS Monitor CD.
The
autorun utility should launch the NI-FBUS Monitor installer
wizard. If it does not launch the installer wizard, complete the
following steps.
a. From the Start menu, select Run.
b. In the Run dialog box, type the following:
x
:\setup
where x is the letter of the drive containing the distribution disk.
The interactive setup program takes you through the necessary
steps to install the software.
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Installing the Hardware
To install the AT-FBUS hardware, refer to the AT-FBUS Getting Started
Manual, which is included in PDF-format on the NI-FBUS
Communications Manager CD.
To install the PCMCIA-FBUS and PCI-FBUS hardware, refer to the
PCMCIA-FBUS Getting Started Manual and the PCI-FBUS Getting
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Chapter 2 Installation and Configuration
Started Manual, both of which are included in PDF-format on the NI-FBUS
Communications Manager CD.
Configuring the Software
If you are installing an AT-FBUS board, the physical settings on the board
must match the software settings you configure. To read your IRQ line
from your board, look at the number printed on the board under the jumper.
Configuration Steps for Windows 2000/NT/XP
1. Select Start»Programming Files»National Instruments»
NI-FBUS»Interface Configuration Utility to start the NI-FBUS
Interface Configuration Utility.
2. To configure the software, refer to the Interface Configuration
Utility Help.
Interface Port Configuration
1. Start the NI-FBUS Interface Configuration Utility.
2. In the configuration window, select the port you want to configure and
click the Edit button.
3. Select Monitor for the Usage.
4. Click the OK button.
Your software is configured.
Starting the NI-FBUS Monitor Driver (Win NT 4.0 Only)
The nifb kernel-mode driver is launched automatically under
Windows 2000/XP. Under Windows NT, the driver must be started
manually, as follows. The installation program defines the
for the driver as
1. After you configure your installation, restart Windows. You must
restart your computer before you can use the NI-FBUS software.
2. Start the kernel-mode device driver
command at the command prompt:
net start nifb
You can also start nifb by selecting Start»Settings»Control
Panel»System»Device Manager»NIFB»Start.
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nifb by entering the following
StartupType
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If the process and the driver start up successfully under Windows NT,
you can configure the
StartupType for the nifb driver to Automatic through the Devices
nifb driver to load at system startup. Change the
window in the Control Panel. If you are using Windows NT, you can also
move the NIFB shortcut to the StartUp folder to make it start up
automatically when your computer boots or restarts.
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Windows and Menus
This chapter describes each of the menus and windows in the NI-FBUS
Monitor utility.
List of Windows
Main Window Multiple Document Interface (MDI)
Filter Window Displays data packets and statistical
Filter Dialog box you can use to select which
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window that contains all the other
windows and toolbars.
information. Each filter window has its
own packet filter.
data packets to capture. The options are as
follows:
FDL Filter—Filters packets by the
Fieldbus Data Link (FDL) layer.
FMS Filter—Filters packets by the
Fieldbus Messaging Specification (FMS)
layer.
Filter by Address—Filters packets by
address.
Settings Dialog box you can use to set the
following NI-FBUS Monitor options:
Capture Settings—Capture options.
Display Settings—Color and font
options.
Toolbar Settings—Toolbar options.
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Packet View Toolbar Gives access to view options for the
packet view.
Statistics View Toolbar Gives access to view options for the
statistics view.
Standard Toolbar Gives access to commonly used functions
in a toolbar format.
About the NI-FBUS Monitor Interface
The NI-FBUS Monitor consists of windows and data objects. The main
window is the large desktop window that contains all other windows of the
NI-FBUS Monitor. It has a menu bar and various toolbars. The smaller
windows inside the main window are filter windows. Each filter window
uses a single filter to determine what data the NI-FBUS Monitor captures.
The main data object that stores these captured data packets on a disk and
holds the data in memory is called the capture document. You can use the
filter window to view the data in the capture document. You can attach
several filter windows with the corresponding filters to the capture
document.
When you select New from the File menu, the NI-FBUS Monitor creates
a new capture document and a corresponding filter window. The filter
window displays data from the capture document. Each filter window has
an exclusive filter attached to it that you can view as a dialog box. To
display the filter, select Filter Settings from the Capture menu. You can
use the filter to determine what data the NI-FBUS Monitor displays in the
filter window and what data it saves to the capture document. To add a new
filter window to the document, select New Filter Window from the
Capture menu. Adding a new filter window attaches a new filter window
and filter to the document. You can use the new filter to filter different data.
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Figure 3-1 is a graphical example of the relationships between the windows
and the document. The gray area represents the graphical area that appears
on the desktop. The documents on the left are data objects invisible on the
desktop.
Note Even if a window is split using the Split Filter Window function, the filter window
still has only one filter attached to it.
Figure 3-1. Relationship of Windows to Capture Documents
Main Window
The main window contains all the windows of the NI-FBUS Monitor. The
frame of the main window contains a menu bar and a status bar. The frame
can also have toolbars on it. Figure 3-2 shows the main window.
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