Fox Station Analyzer

This Component is used to help Analyze the Fox Traffic between two Stations. The live Workbench view is useful for analyzing traffic in realtime. The Component can also record Fox traffic to a history for further analysis. A number of filters can be applied to the Component to pick up only desired Fox traffic. This Component is typically added to a Station from the foxAnalyzer module's palette file.

Please note: this Component is designed to only listen to Fox traffic between two Stations. To view the traffic between Workbench and a Station, please see the Workbench Fox Analyzer.

Properties

Status: the Status of the Component. If the Status is in fault, the Component will not listen to any Fox traffic.
Active: enabled if the Fox Station Analyzer is currently plugged into Fox and listening for events. If the Component is not recording history, then the Fox Analyzer only listens for network traffic when its subscribed (i.e. being viewed in Workbench).
Mode: A filter for the type of Fox Traffic to listen too. Fox operates in several ways. A classic example would be Workbench acting as the Client and a Station as the Server.
View Log Limit: The live Workbench view uses a color coded table to display the Fox events. This number relates to the maximum number of entries displayed in this table. If the limit is exceeded, then the oldest entries from the table are removed.
Show Debug Frames: Fox Frames can be viewed in debug mode. This shows the frames in a readable user friendly format. By setting this Property to false, any future recorded Fox Frames will show their raw content.
Current Station: The name of the current Station being used to filter Fox Traffic.
Station Name: A BFormat used to help determine the name of the Station to filter traffic for. By default, the Analyzer Component's parent name is used to filter traffic. Therefore, the default parent should be a NiagaraStation Component.
Id: Every Fox Session has a unique Id number. This Property can be used to filter for specific Fox Sessions if the value is greater than -1.
Channel Pattern: Fox uses specially named Channels and Commands for different purposes. This Property provides a way to fitler for specific Fox traffic.
Command Pattern: Just like the Channel Pattern Property, this is used to filter for specific Fox traffic.
History Enabled: If enabled, the Component will permanently listen to Fox and record information to a history (please note that all filters still apply).
History Id: The History Id used when record Fox Traffic to a History.
History Config: The History Config used when creating the Fox History.