Before you can monitor variable message signs in Security Center, you must configure your DMS entity's network settings.
What you should know
Procedure
- From the Config Tool home page, open the Area view task.
- From the entity tree, select your DMS entity, and click the Network tab.
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If you have a direct link to your sign controller, set the Control
mode option to Direct and configure your network
settings:
NOTE: This control method is the standard NTCIP protocol.
- IP address
- IP address of the variable message sign.
- Port
- Port of the variable message sign.
- Community
- Password to access the variable message sign.
- SNMP version
- SNMP version used to communicate with the sign.
- Communication timeout
- Time after which the system considers communication with the sign to be lost. The default value is 5 seconds.
- Communication retries
- Number of times that the system tries to get communication back with the device after a communication timeout. The default value is 2.
- Communication loss timeout
- If the system is unable to poll the sign for the time set here, the sign goes blank. This is enabled by default. The default value is 5 minutes.
- Polling
- Polling interval in seconds. This is enabled by default. The default value is 30 seconds.
- Requires space when blanking
- If your sign model requires spaces in the blanking message, enable this option. This setting must be applied if you are using an LEDYears sign.
- Use Unicode
- Assigns a unique number for every character. This is disabled by default.
- Inter-command delay
- Time between commands sent to the sign. The default value is 0 seconds.
- Message table index
- Index for DMS messages stored on the sign.
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If you are using an External Xml control system to connect to your sign, set the
Control mode option to External Xml File and
configure your network settings:
- External ID
- ID of the DMS entity as configured in your external control system.
- Polling
- Polling interval in seconds. This is enabled by default. The default value is 30 seconds.
- Requires space when blanking
- If your sign model requires spaces in the blanking message, enable this option. LEDYears signs require spaces in blanking messages.
- Use Unicode
- Assigns a unique number for every character. This is disabled by default.
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If you are using an External Rest control system to connect to your sign, set the
Control mode option to External Rest and
configure your network settings:
- IP address
- IP address of the variable message sign.
- Port
- Port of the variable message sign.
- Community
- Password to access the variable message sign.
- SNMP version
- SNMP version used to communicate with the sign.
- Communication timeout
- Time after which the system considers communication with the sign to be lost. The default value is 5 seconds.
- Communication retries
- Number of times that the system tries to get communication back with the device after a communication timeout. The default value is 2.
- Polling
- Polling interval in seconds. This is enabled by default. The default value is 30 seconds.
- Requires space when blanking
- If your sign model requires spaces in the blanking message, enable this option. This setting must be applied if you are using an LEDYears sign.
- Use Unicode
- Assigns a unique number for every character. This is disabled by default.
- Click Apply.