Section 4 Establishing connection and verifying the
IEC 61850 station communication
4.1 Setting the station communication
To enable IEC 61850 station communication:
• The IEC 61850-8-1 station communication functionality must be on in the local
HMI. Navigate to Main menu/Configuration/Communication/Station
communication/IEC61850-8-1:1 and set the Operation parameter to Enabled.
• To enable GOOSE communication the Operation parameter for the corresponding
GOOSE function blocks (GOOSEBINRCV and GOOSEINTLKRCV) must be set to
Enabled in the application configuration.
• To enable GOOSE communication via the front port the parameter PortSelGOOSE in
Main menu/Configuration/Communication/Station communication/
IEC61850-8-1:1 must be set to Front. To enable GOOSE communication via rear
port the parameter PortSelGOOSE must be set to LAN1.
• To enable MMS communication via the rear port the parameter PortSelMMS in Main
menu/Configuration/Communication/Station communication/IEC61850-8-1:1
must be set to LAN1.
4.2 Verifying the station communication
Connect your PC to the substation network and ping the connected IED and the Substation
Master PC, to verify that the communication is working (up to the transport layer).
The best way to verify the communication up to the application layer is to use protocol
analyzer connected to the substation bus, and monitor the communication.
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