Parameters related to callouts.
There can be up to three scheduled callouts. These are used for reports and health checks. The callouts can run once per day or periodically throughout the day starting at a specific time.
| Hr | Hour of the day the callout starts. 0 to 23. |
| Min | Minute of the hour the callout starts. 0 to 59. |
| Freq | Frequency of occurrence of the callout. Daily or repeating. |
| Inc | Time increment between repeating callouts. Minutes. |
Each schedule begins with a check box that is used to activate that schedule.
The time of day the callout starts is relative to the start of day for the terminal. That is 0:00 UTC since the terminal time zone is UTC.
There are three types of callouts: alarms, reports, and test. Alarms are triggered by selected tags based on their register value. Reports are scheduled. Test callouts are triggered by a button. Callouts contain all the tags in the tags table.
| Enable Callout | Used to enable and disable all callouts at once. |
| Scan | Used to make a request to the terminal to generate a callout message on demand. |
| Pause | Used to temporarily suspend the generation of callout messages. |
| Resume | Used to resume generation of callout messages. |
| Reset | Sets the Callout Count back to zero so callouts can resume. |
| Callout Count | Increments when a callout is output. Stops incrementing upon reaching the daily limit. |
| Daily Limit | Maximum number of callouts per day. |
| Callout Interval | Callout sampling interval in seconds. |
Clicking the Pause button causes a decrementing counter to be displayed in the status bar. This has a yellow background. When the count goes to zero, callouts are resumed. If the Pause button is clicked before the count goes to zero the count is restarted. If the Resume button is clicked the count is set to zero and callouts are resumed.
A test of connectivity can be requested that sends brief messages to the server which then sends a response back to the terminal.
| Ping | Starts the ping. The spinner has a count of the number of ping messages to be sent to the server. In the range 1 to 10. Allow 30 seconds per message. |
| Stop | Stops the ping. Return ping count and last ping time are set to blank. |
| Returns | Updates the ping count and last ping time. The ping count has received count followed by the send count in one string (i.e. 2 of 5). |
| Last Ping | Date and time the Ping button was last clicked. |