Failure and replacement of components during operation 
  16.3 Failure and replacement of components of the distributed I/Os 
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Replacement procedure 
Proceed as follows to replace PROFIBUS DP cables: 
 
Step  What has to be done?  How does the system react? 
1  Check the cabling and localize the 
interrupted PROFIBUS DP cable. 
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2  Replace the defective cable.  – 
3  Switch the failed modules to RUN 
mode. 
The CPUs process the error OBs synchronized 
with each other 
  With one-sided I/O: 
Rack failure OB 86 (outgoing event) 
The DP slaves can be addressed via the 
DP master system. 
  With switched I/O: 
I/O redundancy error OB 70 (outgoing 
event). 
The DP slaves can be addressed via both 
DP master systems.