10.5.3.4: Manage Field Systems Configuration

This process shall provide the interface to the field device operating system kernel and executive functions that manage the software configuration. This process shall monitor activity of the applications and system functions running on the device to determine the state of the device and diagnostic information. This process shall determine if there are issues with the device compared to baseline settings. This process shall send status to a managing transportation center or service monitor periodically or to report issues. This process shall interface to a user to report status of the applications and status of the system updates. This process shall accept inputs from the user concerning the configuration settings or to accept inputs from the managing center. This process shall receive responses for service and provide the information to the user. As inputs are received from the managing center this process shall verify the data to be authentic. Once authenticated this process shall initiate and monitor the progress of updates to the system software and configuration.

This process is associated with the Field physical object.

This process is associated with the following functional objects:

• Field System Executive

This process is associated with the following data flows:

• equip_application_activity_monitoring
• field_equipment_commands
• field_equipment_configuration_settings
• field_software_install_upgrade_files
• fmcfp-field_equipment_commands_input