Network Watchdog

The network watchdog enables you to guard your system against failures in the network connection, cables, or host computer. If the network watchdog is enabled and the network module loses communication with all hosts or clients over the network, the network module sets output channels to predefined watchdog values. Use this page to configure the network watchdog for the bank.

Select a device or output channel from the tree and use the dialog box that appears to configure watchdog settings. In order for the watchdog to work, you must enable it for the channel, the device, and the bank, and enter an output value for the channel.

• Enable/Disable—Enables or disables the network watchdog for the bank. If enabled for the bank, for a device, and for individual output channels on that device, the network watchdog sets those channels to watchdog output values if the network module loses communication with all hosts or clients over the network.
• Timeout (ms)—The amount of time that the bank waits for a response after polling the network, before it determines that there is a communication failure and applies the watchdog output values.
• Watchdog Value—The value that a channel outputs when the watchdog is activated.

After you make changes on properties pages, you must deploy the changes to download them to FieldPoint devices. If you do not deploy the changes, they are saved only in the project file and not on the devices.