4.3.4.2 High availability plant bus.......................................................................................................69
4.3.4.3 Redundant, high availability plant bus....................................................................................71
4.3.4.4 AS 410H on redundant, high availability plant bus.................................................................74
4.3.5 Solutions for the fieldbus........................................................................................................76
4.3.5.1 Redundant PROFIBUS DP....................................................................................................76
4.3.5.2 High availability fieldbus based on PROFINET......................................................................78
4.3.5.3 Gateway between redundant and non-redundant PROFIBUS DP........................................80
4.3.5.4 Connecting PROFIBUS PA to PROFIBUS DP......................................................................81
4.3.5.5 High availability PROFIBUS PA.............................................................................................83
4.3.5.6 Connecting the FOUNDATION Fieldbus to PROFIBUS DP..................................................87
4.3.5.7 High availability FOUNDATION Fieldbus...............................................................................90
4.4 Solutions for integrating a PCS 7 system in a domain...........................................................93
4.5 Solutions for OS servers........................................................................................................94
4.6 Solutions for OS clients..........................................................................................................97
4.6.1 Additional OS clients..............................................................................................................97
4.6.2 Permanent operability............................................................................................................97
4.7 Solutions for SIMATIC BATCH..............................................................................................99
4.8 Solutions for the Route Control server.................................................................................102
4.9 Solutions for the engineering station....................................................................................104
4.10 Time synchronization...........................................................................................................105
5 Advantages of high availability components.............................................................................................107
5.1 Creating and expanding a project with pre-configured stations...........................................107
5.2 SIMATIC H station...............................................................................................................108
5.2.1 Overview of configuration steps...........................................................................................108
5.2.2 How to add a SIMATIC H station to your project.................................................................108
5.2.3 How to insert synchronization modules into the H CPU.......................................................110
5.2.4 How to configure redundant communication processors.....................................................111
5.2.5 How to set the CPU for the reaction of the input/output modules to channel faults.............113
5.3 Communications connections..............................................................................................115
5.3.1 Overview of configuration steps...........................................................................................115
5.3.2 Configuring the connection to the terminal bus....................................................................115
5.3.2.1 How to configure the redundant terminal bus on the basis of the Parallel Redundancy 
Protocol................................................................................................................................115
5.3.2.2 How to connect singular components to the redundant terminal bus on the basis of the 
Parallel Redundancy Protocol..............................................................................................116
5.3.3 How to configure a high availability plant bus......................................................................117
5.3.4 How to configure redundant PROFIBUS DP........................................................................119
5.3.5 How to configure a high availability fieldbus on the basis of PROFINET.............................122
5.3.6 How to configure a media-redundant fieldbus on the basis of PROFINET..........................125
5.3.7 How to configure the redundant PROFIBUS PA..................................................................128
5.3.8 How to configure the redundant FOUNDATION Fieldbus ...................................................130
5.4 Distributed I/O......................................................................................................................133
5.4.1 Overview of configuration steps...........................................................................................133
5.4.2 How to configure the redundant interface module for the I/O device...................................133
5.4.3 How to configure redundant input/output modules (PROFIBUS DP)...................................136
5.4.4 How to configure redundant input/output modules (PROFINET IO)....................................140
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