Siemens SIMATIC IPC677E - Monitoring of the Device; Monitoring Functions

Operating the device
5.4 Monitoring of the device
SIMATIC IPC677E
Operating Instructions, 04/2019, A5E45117996-AA
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5.4 Monitoring of the device
5.4.1 Monitoring functions
You can monitor the following device functions with the software products SIMATIC
DiagBase or SIMATIC DiagMonitor:
Monitoring
Description
Status indicator and actions
Temperature monitor-
ing
• Monitoring for temperature high and low limits as well
as cable breaks of the temperature sensors
• Temperature sensors record the temperature at
critical device points, e.g. at the processor.
• The temperature thresholds are defined for the indi-
vidual temperature sensors.
• With SIMATIC IPC DiagBase or SIMATIC IPC Diag-
Monitor, actions are triggered when the temperature
thresholds are exceeded.
• Speed control of the device fans,
the power supply fan and the fan of
the optional graphics card
• Temperature alarm is generated.
Fan monitoring
• Monitoring for underspeed and fan failure as well as
cable breaks of the speedometer cable
• Fan alarm is output.
Watchdog
• Monitoring of the system status and message to
determine if a station is still operational
• If the watchdog is not addressed within a configured
monitoring time, a watchdog alarm is output.
• A change to the monitoring time is effective immedi-
ately.
Depending on the setting, the following
actions are triggered:
• Reset on: Hardware reset is per-
formed
• Reset off: No action is performed
• The device is restarted
• The device is shut down
Voltage monitoring
• Monitoring the charge status of the backup battery
(CMOS)
• When the first warning threshold is reached, the
backup battery will run for at least one more month.
• An alarm is generated in the event
of a critical or faulty state.
Drive monitoring
• Determination of the status of the drives (HDD and
SSD) with SMART functionality, also in RAID sys-
tems (RAID status)
• SMART status of the hard disks
• For example, the following states
are displayed in a RAID group:
"Normal", "OK", "Degraded", error
"Rebuild", rebuilding
Software for device monitoring
You can find information on the monitoring software and its documentation under:
● SIMATIC IPC DiagBase (Page 66) for monitoring and alarming locally on the device
● SIMATIC IPC DiagMonitor (Page 66) for monitoring and alarming via network