Monitoring Slave Status - Omron SYSMAC CS Series Operation Manual

Monitoring the Network
Monitoring
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Standard Slave
Diagnostics Example
Extended Slave
Diagnostics
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Slave Status
The Generic Slave DTM provides a Diagnosis User Interface with two tabs:
• Standard diagnostics tab, displaying the same information for the associ-
ated slave device as in the Slave Diagnostics Data box in the Master
DTM Monitoring User Interface.
• The Extended Diagnostics tab, displaying the extended diagnostics
reported by the slave device. The interpretation of this diagnostics infor-
mation depends on the type of slave device.
As an example, the standard slave device diagnostics information window is
shown below. For more information regarding interpretation of the LED indica-
tors, refer to section 6-7-1 Monitoring the Master Unit and the Network.
Extended diagnostics data are often - not always - provided by a slave device
to indicate additional slave specific diagnostics, error and alarm information,
which can not be contained in the standard data part of the diagnostics mes-
sage. These extended diagnostics data bytes are sent by the slave in a diag-
nostics message following the standard data part.
For slave devices supporting extended diagnostics data, the associated GSD
files often - again, not always - provide language dependent text strings to
facilitate interpretation of the diagnostics codes, sent by the slave device.
The Generic Slave DTM provides an easy to use interface, which facilitates
the displaying of such extended diagnostics data strings.
The presence of extended diagnostics as part of the diagnostics data mes-
sage, is indicated by
• the LED indicator marked Extended Diagnostics received in the Master
DTM - Monitor tab, Slave Status tab (refer to section 6-7-1 Monitoring the
Master Unit and the Network).
• the LED indicator in the Diagnostics tab of the slave Diagnostics User
Interface (see for example, the figure above).
Also, if no extended diagnostics are available, the Extended Diagnostics tab
will be disabled, and inaccessible.
To display the extended diagnostics, click on the Extended diagnostics tab in
the Slave Diagnostics User Interface.
Section 6-7