CIMPLICITYGenius General Port Properties
Use the General tab in the Port Properties dialog box to enter general information for the port. You can define the following:
| Description | Enter an optional description to help you identify the port. |
| Scan Rate | Enter the base scan rate for the port. Point scan rates will be multiples of the base rate. You can specify a scan rate in Ticks (100 ticks = 1 second), Seconds, Minutes, or Hours. |
| Retry Count | If communications cannot be established, the device is considered to be down and a $DEVICE_DOWN alarm is generated. Once a device is down, periodic attempts are made to resume connections to it. |
| Enter the number of scans to wait before attempting to reconnect to a device on this port after a communications error is detected. | |
| Enable | Set this check box if you want the port to be enabled. If you clear this check box, the port will not be enabled when the project starts, and points will not be available for devices on the port. |
| Enable stale data | Set this check box if you want the point to remain available in most circumstances that would have made it unavailable. However, this attribute will report that the point value is stale. It is the last known good value and may or may not have changed. |
