Drive Configurations; System With 2 Drives; Monitoring Of The Device; Monitoring Functions - Siemens SIMATIC IPC RC-545A Operating Instructions Manual

6.3

Drive configurations

6.3.1

System with 2 drives

You can order the device as a system with two drives. You can find information on the
capacity of the drives in the ordering documents.
In a system with 2 independently operated drives, the second drive has not yet been set up in
the delivery state of the device. The drive setup can be performed with the pre-installed
operating system.
You have the option of backing up your data to this drive.
You can find information on how to boot the device from the second drive in the detailed
firmware/BIOS description. See "Important instructions and manuals for operating the device
(Page 10)".
6.4

Monitoring of the device

6.4.1

Monitoring functions

Note
No support of monitoring functions by SIMATIC DiagBase or SIMATIC DiagMonitor
The SIMATIC DiagBase and SIMATIC DiagMonitor software do not support the monitoring
functions of this device.
Monitored device functions IPC
Monitoring Description
Temperature monitor-
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ing
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Fan monitoring
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The operation of the fan is monitored at the following
positions:
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Monitoring of high and low temperature limits and
cable break of the temperature sensors
For this, temperature sensors record the temperature
at critical points of the device, e.g. at the processor.
The temperature thresholds are defined for the indi-
vidual temperature sensors.
Monitoring of underspeed and failure of a fan as well
as cable break of the tachometer cable
Front panel
Processor
Drive cage type A
Operating the device
6.3 Drive configurations
Status display and actions
• Status display "TEMP"
• Speed control of the device fans,
the fan of the power supply unit
and the fan of the graphics card
• Temperature alarm is output.
• Status display "FAN"
• Fan alarm is output.
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