The 3500 Monitoring

System

Data Acquisition /
DDE Server
Software

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Data Acquisition/
DDE Server Software
Objectives
• Explain the use and operation of the data acquisition
software
• Explain the use of Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) by the
3500 monitoring system
• Explain the difference between a machine based monitoring
configuration and a rack based monitoring configuration

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Data Acquisition Setup

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Data Acquisition Setup

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Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)

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DDE Server Process
DDE
Server Other DDE Clients
Data Acquisition

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Rack Based Configuration

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Machine Based Configuration

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Initiating Data Acquisition

The Data Acquisition software is used to

initiate or terminate data acquisition once the
data acquisition configuration has been
implemented

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Review
Identify the data that is acquired by the 3500 data acquisition
software.

Explain how the data is made available to other software

products.

Explain the difference between “Rack Based” and “Machine

Based” monitoring.

Explain in general how the data acquisition software is

configured.

Explain how the data acquisition software initiates and

terminates data acquisition. 10

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DDE Server Software

Question
&
Answer

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