Siemens SIMATIC ET 200pro Operating Instructions Manual page 15

New properties / functions
What's new?
Changed UDP
contents
Fetching the identification
and maintenance data with
the Get_IM_Data instruction
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What are the customer benefits?
The maximum data length of the connection-
less network protocol UDP (UDP-Unicast and
UDP-Multicast) amounts to 2 KB.
You transfer a larger amount of data per UDP
packet via Industrial Ethernet.
Using the Get_IM_Data instruction, you can
read the identification and maintenance data
of the modules with little programming work.
With the Get_IM_Data instruction you can
access identification and maintenance data
(I&M) of a module in the user program. I&M
data is stored information in a module. This
allows you to
Check the system configurations
•
React to hardware changes
•
React to hardware faults in the user pro-
•
gram.
Finding and elimination of hardware errors is
easier.
Where can I find information?
Section Technical specifica-
tions (Page 119)
Section Fetching and entering
I&M data (Page 90)
CPU 1516pro-2 PN (6ES7516-2PN00-0AB0)
Operating Instructions, 11/2019, A5E35873416-AC