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7.11 Diagnostics for PROFIBUS PA....................................................................................................83
7.12 Diagnostics on FOUNDATION Fieldbus......................................................................................84
7.13 Diagnostics for the OS.................................................................................................................84
7.14 Diagnostics for the BATCH Stations............................................................................................85
7.15 Diagnostics for the Route Control stations..................................................................................86
7.16 Diagnostics for time of day..........................................................................................................86
7.17 Diagnostics for hardware displays...............................................................................................87
7.18 Diagnostic tools...........................................................................................................................90
7.18.1 Diagnostics tools of PCS 7..........................................................................................................90
7.18.2 Diagnostics for the PCs...............................................................................................................91
7.18.2.1 Windows System Information......................................................................................................91
7.18.2.2 Managing the operating system..................................................................................................91
7.18.2.3 Shares for drives, folders and files..............................................................................................92
7.18.2.4 System tools - Local Users and Groups......................................................................................93
7.18.2.5 Command line commands...........................................................................................................93
7.18.2.6 Set PC station..............................................................................................................................94
7.18.2.7 Set PG/PC interface....................................................................................................................94
7.18.2.8 Station Configuration Editor.........................................................................................................95
7.18.2.9 Printers and print jobs..................................................................................................................96
7.18.2.10 PC DiagMonitor......................................................................................................................97
7.18.2.11 Installed SIMATIC software....................................................................................................97
7.18.3 Diagnostics in the network...........................................................................................................97
7.18.3.1 NetPro.........................................................................................................................................97
7.18.3.2 NCM S7 Industrial Ethernet.........................................................................................................98
7.18.3.3 SIMATIC NET switches - SCALANCE X-300 / X-400.................................................................99
7.18.3.4 "Network Connections" Windows dialog box...............................................................................99
7.18.3.5 NCM S7.......................................................................................................................................99
7.18.3.6 Topology Editor (PROFINET)....................................................................................................100
7.18.3.7 MBSA........................................................................................................................................101
7.18.4 Operator station diagnostics......................................................................................................101
7.18.4.1 Lifebeat monitoring....................................................................................................................101
7.18.4.2 Simatic Shell..............................................................................................................................101
7.18.4.3 WinCC "System Info" channel...................................................................................................102
7.18.4.4 User Administrator.....................................................................................................................103
7.18.4.5 WinCC Channel Diagnostics.....................................................................................................104
7.18.4.6 Status of multi-user operation....................................................................................................104
7.18.4.7 Status of connections................................................................................................................105
7.18.4.8 Area overview............................................................................................................................105
7.18.4.9 Redundancy status display........................................................................................................106
7.18.4.10 Time master role of the OS server (status)..........................................................................106
7.18.5 Diagnostics for the BATCH station............................................................................................107
7.18.5.1 Status icons in the BATCH server taskbar................................................................................107
7.18.6 Diagnostics for the Route Control station..................................................................................109
7.18.6.1 Status icons in the Route Control server taskbar......................................................................109
7.18.7 Diagnostics for the SIMATIC station..........................................................................................109
7.18.7.1 SIMATIC Manager.....................................................................................................................109
7.18.7.2 HW Config.................................................................................................................................111
7.18.7.3 Module information....................................................................................................................112
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