Diagnostics And Maintenance; Diagnostics Options - Siemens IE/PB LINK PN IO Operating Instructions Manual

Diagnostics and maintenance

5.1

Diagnostics options

The following diagnostics options are available:
LEDs of the module
For information on the LED displays, refer to the section LEDs, connectors, buttons
(Page 21).
STEP 7 Professional: The "Diagnostics" tab in the Inspector window
If ou access the LINK via Ethernet, you obtain the following information on the selected
module:
● Entries in the diagnostics buffer
● Information on the online status of the module
STEP 7 Professional: Diagnostics functions via the "Online > Online and diagnostics" menu
Using the online functions, you can read diagnostics information from the LINK from an
engineering station on which the project with the LINK is stored. You obtain, for example; the
following static information:
● General information on the module
● Information on the diagnostics status
● Diagnostics buffer entries
● Information on the PROFINET interface
● Information on the DP interface
You will find further information on the diagnostics functions of STEP 7 in the STEP 7
information system.
STEP 7 V5
Here, the known diagnostics tools are available to you.
SNMP
You will find detailed information about the supported functions in the section SNMP
(Page 75).
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