Overview 
  1.1 Product description 
SIMATIC IPC847D 
Operating Instructions, 01/2014, A5E32997454-AA 
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●  Integrated programmable monitoring functions (program execution (watchdog), internal 
housing temperature, fan speed) 
●  Enhanced diagnostic/messaging by way of Ethernet, e-mail, text, and for direct input in 
SIMATIC software by way of OPC (optional using SIMATIC PC DiagMonitor): 
–  Operating hours counter 
–  Hard drive status, hot spare drives of a RAID system are not displayed 
–  System status (heartbeat) 
–  Automatic logging of all messages to a log file 
–  Option of remote monitoring of networked SIMATIC IPCs 
●  RAID1 (mirroring): For automatic data mirroring on two hard disks. Configurations with 
hot-spare drive available for order. 
●  RAID5 (striping with parity): For increased memory capacity and improved data security 
on three hard disks. Configurations with hot-spare drive available for order.