NAVIPAC

INPUT MONITOR

Author: EIVA SW
Last update: 17/04/2013
Version: 3.9
 Contents

1. Introduction .................................................................................................................. 3
2. The Window ................................................................................................................. 3

2.1 Time out ..................................................................................................................... 6

2.2 Larger Icons ............................................................................................................... 6
3. The menus .................................................................................................................... 7
4. Histogram view ............................................................................................................ 8

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 1. Introduction
The Input Monitor program is a client network application that is a part of the NaviPac SW
package. It can be started from in the online program's View menu: Input Monitor… or the
toolbar’s

icon:

2. The Window
The Application is a SDI and it opens a new window with overview status and detailed
information on the NaviPac data input.

The window is opened directly on the computer where the online program runs as it uses
the same network principles as the online program.

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 The window contains one line per defined instrument, and it covers real inputs – but not
offsets or outputs..

The following information is available:

Instrument:
It gives the name of the instrument, as defined by operator in NaviPac Configuration.

Port:
Shows the COM port, which the instrument is assigned to.

Pacets/sec:
Number of data packets received the last second.

Pac/10sec:
Number of data packets received the last ten seconds. It is only updated each 10 cycles.

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 Empty cycles:
Number of NaviPac cycles without data. Operator can reset this field.

Time since last:

Shows time in seconds since last incoming data packet.

Age of data:
Fields with data coming in – how old were the last sample when NaviPac started using it. A
value above 1 second can be normal – but not much more.
Information where external timing is used (GPS, USBL and ATTU based inputs) could
indicate timing problems having higher values

Each line in the list will be presented with one of the following colours:

 Grey:
The instrument is either off or calculated, i.e. no incoming data will occur at all.
 Blue:
All is OK
 Yellow:
No packets was received in warning period – watch out
 Red:
No packets was received within the error period – watch out more deeply

The tool bar contains one icon per defined instrument. To minimise window space used by
the application, the IOMon could be re-sized to show the overview information only:

Each port is represented with a light-signal in one of the following colours:

 Grey:
The instrument is either off or calculated, i.e. no incoming data will occur at all.
 Green:
All is OK
 Yellow:
No packets was received in the warning period – watch out
 Red:
No packets was received within the error period – watch out more deeply

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 2.1 Time out
The program works with two time-out limits – Warning and error.

In current version these limits is defined in the NaviPac.ini file:

[iomon]

Port_59_Limit1=2

Port_59_Limit2=5

Port_14_Limit1=20

Port_14_Limit2=60

For each port in use, it gives limit1 (warning) and limit 2 (error). The unit is number of
cycles. In the above example, the timeout on port 59 is 2 cycles (often equal to 2 seconds)
before changing to yellow and 5 cycles before changing to red.

In coming releases, these limits will be defined in NaviPac Setup.

2.2 Larger Icons

From version 3.4 (June 2002) you may change between small or large icons in the toolbar:

or

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 The large icons show the first few characters of the instrument name, and give hereby much
faster problem identification.

You may change between large (default) and small icons in the NAVIPAC.INI file:

[iomon]

LargeIcons=1 (or 0 for small)

3. The menus
IO Mon contains three menu items:

File, Options and Help.

 File, Save settings:

Save current window position and size. Will be used as default the next time the
application is opened.
 File, Exit:
Stop the application.
 Options, Stay on top:
If checked, the window will always be the top-most window.
 Options, Reset counters
Reset counters for empty cycles etc. This feature is also available in the toolbar
menu.
 Help, About
Shows current application version
 Help, Contents
Displays this file in PDF viewer

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 4. Histogram view
You may display a statistical distribution diagram (histogram) over each sensor update rate
(Packets/second). The access to the display is made via right mouse click on the window. A
list pops up showing all sensors

Selecting an instrument will toggle the window on or off.

Note that sensors with a check have the histogram open.

The X axis shows the number of packets per second

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 The Y axis shows the number of times (please note the scale is logarithmic) it has been
observed.

You may zoom in/out using the mouse wheel.

You may activate right mouse at the view and

- Print the histogram
- Export to CSV suitable for eg EXCEL

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