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Allen-Bradley SoftLogix 5800 User Manual

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6 Rockwell Automation Publication 1789-UM002K-EN-P - January 2015
Table of Contents
Chapter 3
Communicate with Devices on an
Ethernet Network
Configure Your System for an Ethernet Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Step 1: Disable UDP Messages in RSLinx Classic Software . . . . . . . 44
Disabling the UDP option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Enabling the UDP option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Step 2: Create the Communication Card
in the SoftLogix Chassis Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Step 3: Configure the Communication Card
as Part of the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Step 4: Configure the SoftLogix EtherNet/IP Module to
Communicate on an Ethernet Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Multiple EtherNet/IP Modules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Ethernet Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Domain Interactions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Controller Connections over the EtherNet/IP Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Supported Functionality
of the SoftLogix 5800 EtherNet/IP Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Distributed Ethernet I/O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
I/O Configuration Order in the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Ethernet I/O Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Add a Remote Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Add a Consumed Tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Check EtherNet/IP Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Example 1: Workstation Remotely Connected
to a SoftLogix Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Example 2: Send Messages over the EtherNet/IP Network . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Configure a MSG Instruction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Example 3: Send Messages over the EtherNet/IP Network
to a PLC-5 Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Configure a MSG Instruction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Example 4: Control Distributed I/O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Chapter 4
Communicate with Serial Devices
Configure Your System for a Serial Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Step 1: Configure the Serial Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Change the COM Port Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Step 2: Configure the Serial Port of the Controller in the Project . 81
Controller Status Indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Example 1: Workstation Directly Connected
to a SoftLogix Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
DF1 Point-to-Point Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Example 2: Workstation Remotely Connected
to a SoftLogix Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Master and Slave Communication Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
DF1 Slave Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
DF1 Master Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

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