FWMC — Field Wireless Management Console

Topology Viewer

Live communication paths across the field wireless subnet. Solid links are the time-synchronisation parent; dashed links are alternates.

Good Warning Bad Now connecting Disconnected Primary path Secondary path

Devices

Every device the gateway knows — system manager, gateway, backbone routers and field devices. Select a row for properties and commands.

Network ID filter

Devices

Network Health

Radio quality and power for every device. RSSI and PER come from the neighbour-health report; the gateway must have NeighbourHealthReportPooling enabled for them to be populated.

Network ID filter Engineering Tool

Radio & Power

Log Viewer

Alert notifications from the gateway, newest first. 1000 records per page, as on the YFGW410.

Publication Quality

How well each device is delivering its sampled data.

This gateway keeps no reading history, so there are no trends to plot. DeviceReadingsHistory is empty, which means Monitor_Host runs with UseReadingsHistory=0 — the shipped default. Only the latest value per channel is kept, in DeviceReadings. For trends, set that flag in Monitor_Host.conf, raise DatabaseRemoveEntriesOlderThanMinutes from 30, and note the database lives on a RAM disk.

Devices

Firmware Download Manager

Download progress reported by Monitor_Host.

Firmware Files on the Gateway

Firmwares · devices_fw_upgrade/

Gateway Settings

Identity of this gateway. Edits are staged locally until you run Error Check and Download.

Identity

config.ini [GATEWAY]

Device Tag * Up to 16 characters: 0-9 A-Z a-z - _

Gateway EUI-64 * 16 hex digits. Also rewrites the GATEWAY line in system_manager.ini.

Subnet ID * 1–65535. Also rewrites every provisioning line on the old subnet and the backbone's join filter.

Required to restart all Backbone Devices

Firmware & Board

misc.getVersion / getGatewayNetworkInfo

Interfaces

Host-facing network configuration of the gateway board.

The Nivis board exposes a single host interface, so the YFGW410's B1–B4 / F1–F3 / M1 port matrix collapses to one port. Backed by misc.setGatewayNetworkInfo.

Board Network

Obtain the address automatically (DHCP)

IP Address

Subnet Mask

Default Gateway Address

DNS Servers Comma-separated IPv4 addresses. Empty uses what DHCP provides.

MAC Address

Override

Twelve hex digits. Without an override the board uses its own.

Changing the board address drops this session when it is applied

Access Control Lists

Host applications allowed to connect to the gateway's GSAP ports.

Enforced by isa_gw on ports 4900–4903 (GSAP and YGSAP, plain and TLS): a host that is not listed is disconnected as soon as it connects. An empty list lets every host in. Local modules such as Monitor_Host connect over loopback and are always allowed. Not covered: this console, ssh, and Modbus/TCP (modbus_gw is not built from this tree). The board's kernel has no packet filter, so there is no firewall to put them behind.

Allowed Hosts

config.ini [GATEWAY] HOST_ACL

An address, or a network as address/bits. Up to 32 entries. Applied with a SIGHUP to isa_gw: open connections are not dropped.

Time Source

Clock source for message timestamps and the wireless network.

NTP

/etc/ntp.conf

NTP Servers Host names or addresses, comma-separated, tried in order. With none, the board uses pool.ntp.org.

Download sets the clock from these servers once they are written

Board Clock

misc.getTime

Immediate, not staged

Hopping Patterns

2.4 GHz channels the subnet may use. Disabled channels are skipped network-wide.

Channel List

sm_subnet.ini CHANNEL_LIST

Shuffle the hopping order each time the System Manager starts (RANDOMIZE_CHANNELS_ON_STARTUP)

Required to restart Subnet

Advertisement and Reduced Hopping

advanced

Join advertisement period JOIN_ADV_PERIOD; only the values the SM accepts

Advertisement channels The sequence advertisements and neighbour discovery use, as channel numbers 11-26 (repeats allowed). NEIGHBOR_DIAG_CHANNEL_LIST. Highlighted in the grid above.

Reduced hopping sequence Empty: hop over the channel list above. Otherwise 14 channel numbers (repeats allowed) that replace it, e.g. for a site where most of the band is busy. REDUCED_CHANNEL_LIST.

Provisioning

Which devices the System Manager lets join, with which join key, into which subnet. system_manager.ini [SECURITY_MANAGER].

A device joins only if a line covers its EUI-64 and names the subnet it joins in. The gateway and backbone lines follow Gateway Settings and are not edited here. Download sends the System Manager a SIGHUP, which reloads this list without dropping the network.

Sampling Data

What each device publishes to the gateway, and how often. This is Monitor_Host_Publishers.conf, edited as sampling entries.

Sampling Entries

Generated Configuration /access_node/profile/Monitor_Host_Publishers.conf

Field comments

Activate sends SIGHUP to Monitor_Host. The daemon reloads this file, diffs it against what it already had, and re-leases only the publishers that changed — devices whose entry is untouched keep publishing without interruption. Writes go through isa100.mh.setPublisher and delPublisher, which take pre-joined CSV strings and write them into the INI verbatim.

Modbus Settings

Register map exposed to the host over Modbus TCP. Sources are the channels defined in Sampling Data.

Resource

What the current configuration asks of the network.

Device Resource List

Run Commands

Issue an ISA100 command to a device. Commands are queued immediately — they are not staged with the rest of the Configurator.

Command

Commands + CommandParameters

Device *

Command *

Requested Committed Burst Positive = packets per second, negative = seconds between packets. Range −32768 to 4.

Recent commands

Show system commands

Gateway Maintenance

Restart parts of the gateway software, or the board. Immediate, not staged.

Modules

misc.restartApp

Whole Gateway

Restarting the software runs start.sh: every module stops and starts again and every device rejoins. Rebooting also restarts Linux; the console is unreachable for a minute or two.

System Manager Log Level

log4cpp.properties rootLogger

Applied with a SIGHUP; the System Manager keeps running. DEBUG and TRACE fill /tmp quickly.

Backbone engineering mode is not offered. isa100.bbr.getEngMode reaches the backbone, which forwards it to its radio, but this radio never answers it; and the mode, channel and power values it takes are not documented anywhere in the gateway sources.

Users & Access

Console accounts and their authority.

Three accounts, enforced by the gateway. Each RPC method lists the accounts that may call it (methods.json), and the database connection of a viewer session is read-only; an operator may write only device commands and clear alerts. The gateway's serial number no longer works as a password, and misc.remoteCmd only works while /access_node/profile/allow_remote_cmd exists. An account without a password cannot sign in: admin sets one below.

Change Password

user.update

Current password

New password 8 to 16 printable ASCII characters

Repeat new password

Immediate, not staged

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Configurator

Topology Viewer

Devices

Network Health

Log Viewer

Publication Quality

Firmware Download Manager

Gateway Settings

Interfaces

Access Control Lists

Time Source

Hopping Patterns

Provisioning

Sampling Data

Modbus Settings

Resource

Run Commands

Gateway Maintenance

Users & Access

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Monitor

Configurator

Topology Viewer

Devices

Network Health

Log Viewer

Publication Quality

Firmware Download Manager

Gateway Settings

Interfaces

Access Control Lists

Time Source

Hopping Patterns

Provisioning

Sampling Data

Modbus Settings

Resource

Run Commands

Gateway Maintenance

Users & Access

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