Deadbands and ignored devices and topics
The following settings apply to applications that use the Schneider Electric CoreServiceHost: EcoStruxure Web Services and ETL.
The two features described allow you to limit information that you see in system queries and data acquisition. You set the limits for these features in the Configuration.xml file (C:\Program Files (x86)\Schneider Electric\Power Operation\v2022\Applications\AppServices\ bin\Configuration.xml).
<ConfigurationItem Key="Deadbands" Category="Platform Mapping" Application="CitectPlatform">
<Value />
</ConfigurationItem>
Use this line in Configuration.xml to reduce the sensitivity to minor changes in real-time data. You can set default deadbands for variable tags. To set a deadband, enter the following in the value field:
<Value>XX|NN;</Value>
where XX is the IEC 61850 tag name and NN is the percentage.
For example, to set Current A to 5% and Current B to 10%, you would enter the following:
<Value>mmxu1\A\phsA|5.0;mmxu1\A\phsB|10.0;</Value>
Ignored Devices/Ignored Topics
Use these two lines in the Configuration.xml to develop a list of devices and topics that you want to ignore in system queries/data acquisition. Typically, you will use this to exclude devices such as the memory device zOL. Ignored devices and topics will not appear in Reporting or LiveView. (EWS, ETL)
To set a value for ignored devices, type the Citect device names (semi-colon delimited) that you want to ignore.
For example, to exclude zOL (the one-line memory device) and the network tags device (for monitoring comms loss), type:
<Value>zOL;NetworkTagsDev</Value>
In the Ignored Topics list, type the topic names (semi-colon delimited) that you want to ignore. Do not include the device name prefix that displays in the Citect project tag names. For example, to exclude AlarmUnhandled and AlarmInvalidTimestamp, type:
<Value>AlarmUnhandled;AlarmInvalidTimestamp</Value>
Save your changes.