Operating the device
5.5 Monitoring of the device
SIMATIC IPC847E
Operating Instructions, 10/2018, A5E43920357-AA
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Monitoring of the device
5.5.1
You can monitor the following device functions with the SIMATIC DiagBase or SIMATIC
DiagMonitor software:
Status display and actions
Temperature monitor-
ing
• Monitoring of high and low temperature limits and
cable break of the temperature sensors
• For this, temperature sensors record the temperature
at critical points of the device, 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.
• Status display "TEMP (Page 25)"
• Closed-loop speed control of the
device fans, the power supply fan
and the fan of the optional graphics
card
• Temperature alarm is output.
Fan monitoring
• Monitoring of underspeed and failure of a fan as well
as cable break of the tachometer cable
The operation of the fan is monitored at the following
positions:
• Front panel
• Processor
• Triple head graphics card
• Power supply (not redundant)
• Drive cage type A
• Status display "FAN (Page 25)"
• Fan alarm is output.
Watchdog
• Monitoring of the system status and message as to
whether a station is still operational.
• If the watchdog is not operated within a configured
monitoring time, a watchdog alarm is output.
• A change to the monitoring time is effective immedi-
ately.
• Status display "WATCHDOG
(Page 25)"
Depending on the setting, the following
actions are initiated:
• Reset on: A hardware reset is car-
ried out
• Reset off: No action is carried out
• The device is restarted.
• The device is shut down.
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