Utilities for Poseidon and Damocles

An overview of uncomplicated utilities that can simplify your work with Poseidon and Damocles family.

Getif

The Getif is a utility designed for work with SNMP variables that allows seeking throughout SNMP tree, reading values, setting values and displaying legend according to attached MIB.

Before running the program we recommend to watch Flash instruction animation.

Licence: Freeware
Supported OS: Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Server
Communication protocol: SNMP, contains MIB Manager
Response to Alarm: No, does not support receiving SNMP Traps
Download Flash demo: How to work with Poseidon 1250

http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc/getif.htm

iReasoning MIB Browser

The IReasoning MIB Browser is a well-equiped MIB browser for work with MIB files. In higher versions it can also draw graphs from measured values.

Licence: Personal edition - Freeware, Professional edition - $269
Supported OS: Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Server
Communication protocol: SNMP, contains MIB Manager
Response to Alarm: No, support of receiving SNMP Traps

http://www.iReasoning.com

Modbus Poll

The Modbus Poll utility can be found on the CD supplied with "Start set" or on the internet. It is for free for 30 days and will work as a simple client for reading Modbus/TCP values.

Configuration files .mbp („Pos1250_online_demo.mbp“ for e.g.) define probe addresses and device inputs, for more details see manual. Simply select TCP/IP address on which for example online demo is running and get connected.

For first 4 minutes when the program is running in demo version you will see sensor values and binary input states.

More details on AN28: Damocles family & Modbus/TCP

Search Modbus Poll 3.20 on Google

PosDamIO

The Poseidon Damocles I/O is a line utility for Windows and UNIX. It enables to control Poseidon and Damocles units over XML interface, show list of sensor's states, inputs, outputs as well as to setup output to log. 1 or 0.

The PosDamoIO utility is designed for line scripts and applications that need to easily control or log remote sensors, digital inputs and outputs.

List of sensor's states, digital inputs and outputs displayed on a monitor or recorded to a file
Setting of an output via command line
Reading input state and setting of ErrorLevel value according to its returned value
Downloading and Uploading file with values.xml
Downloading/Uploading configuration setup.xml file of the device - easy device duplication

For more details: AN29: PosDamIO - use command line to control outputs