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Configuring TCP/IP Industrial Ethernet with SIMATIC NET Version 6.0 and Generic NIC Card (e.g.
3Com Card)
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Created: October 2002
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3. supports you in defining a topic in the S7 I/O Server and to test the connection via the WWClient test client.
Requirements
z Computer with S7 I/O Server and PLC with TCP/IP Industrial Ethernet communication processor, connected to a network.
You will find the program Set PG/PC Interface in the following menu.
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You can either select a predefined access point, or you create a new one with Add/Delete.
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The Access Point of the Application now must look similar to the one in the picture.
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If you can neither select TCP/IP nor Ind. Ethernet, then probably none of the modules is installed.
After this you should now be able to configure the Interface Parameter Assignment Used.
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When doing this for the very first time you will see Step 1 of 7.
If you have started this program at least once before, you will see Step 1 of 4.
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Do the same with Index 2 and respect to the network card that will be used.
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In the window displaying now you can select if you want to use either the MAC-Address (Ind. Ethernet) or the IP address (TCP/IP). You can
also select both options. The addresses to enter in that window are the addresses of the computer for which you are doing this
configuration.You also have to select the subnet you want to use for communication. In this case Ethernet.
When pressing the button, the following window displays. No settings are necessary here.
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The necessary settings have been performed. Save and compile your configuration. You can now close this window. The Commissioning Wizard
still shows step 2.
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NetPro
Here you will see the PCStation that was configured before. If you do not see it, your configuration was not save and compiled correctly, you
need to reconfigure your PCStation. You can double click on the area where the application or IE General suppose to be, the Hardware
configuration window will appear.
Please notice the PC station Name is default to as PCStation, if you want to change this name, make sure the new name is save and compiled
and later downloaded. Check it with Station Configuration Editor to make sure the PC station name is matching to the name you use in the
NetPro configuration.
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The following window displays. Please select (Unspecified) as connection partner and S7 connection as connection type.
If the connection is an Ind. Ethernet connection uncheck the TCP/IP checkbox. Now the address is the MAC address of the PLC.
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To do this select menu entry Save and Compile in the Network main menu.
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Note that the download menu is available only if the PCStation is selected and active. It does not work if the connection in the table below is
selected.
Warning: It may happen that the download is not successful with a more or less meaningless error message. In this case please check the
hardware configuration in NetPro against the configuration of the "Station Configuration Editor". You will find the "Station Configuration Editor"
as an icon (computer symbol) on the right side of your taskbar. Both configurations must be identical before SIMATIC NET allows a download.
(Both configurations must be identical in terms of PC Station Name, the positions of the components - application and IE general, OPC server,
etc.)
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NetPro settings are now complete. You can close the window.
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Configuration Console
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In the pull down menu Mode of the module select Configured mode and confirm with . Then close the window.
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S7 Topic Definition
The Topic Name may be chosen freely.In the pull down menu CP-Name select the access point that you defined in step 1.1 "Select access point
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of application ".
If you then click the arrow in the pull down menu VFD the application that you defined in the previous steps must appear.If you selected the
correct VFD, then in the pull down menu Connection also must appear the corresponding connection.
If you do not find entries in the pull down menus VFD and Connection, something went wrong with the SIMATIC NET software. Then it doesn't
help to type in the entries manually. In this case please check all your SIMATIC NET settings again and download them to the PC. Then restart
the S7 server and try again.
If you do not explicitly want cyclic services, you should disable them .
Testing the Connection Between I/O Server and PLC with WWClient
The handy tool, WWCLIENT, which is located in the Common directory of the Wonderware FactorySuite, can be used for testing a
connection between I/O server and PLC.
Requirements
SIMATIC NET software set-up correct.
I/O Server is running.
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Optional, Name of the computer the I/O server is running on. Necessary if
Node
the I/O server is running on a remote computer in the network.
Application Name of the *.exe file of the I/O servers. In this case S7.
Topic Name of the topic as defined in the I/O server.
Selection of the connection type between I/O server and client. Possible
Connection Type
choices are DDE and IOT (Suite Link).
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In the I/O Servers an entry similar to the following should display. The Status of the connection should be GOOD.
In field ITEM enter the desired data in the PLC. Please be sure to use the correct syntax of the I/O server. Please refer to the corresponding
section in the online documentation of the I/O server.
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If you enter a value in the field VALUE, this value can be poked to the PLC by pressing the button POKE. This value now should also be visible
in WWCLIENT.
Values that are changing in the PLC will change accordingly in WWCLIENT.
Better explanation of the quality state can be found in the electronic documentation (pdf file) of the SIMATIC NET S7 I/O server looking for
"Quality".
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In the I/O server the number of connected items in WWClient should be seen in the column ITEMS. If all items are correct, the column ERRORS
should show the value "0".
More documentation:
If Internet access is available, the following links will guide you directly to the documents on Wonderware's Tech Support web site.
Technote 132 - Using FactorySuite 2000s WWClient to Check I/O Server Communications.
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Please take a look at the electronic documentation on the SIMATIC NET CD. There you will find additional explanations and descriptions
regarding this CD and its software.
P. Craemer
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