Port configuration
You can use a CM 4xIO-Link 4xM12 communication module as of firmware version V1.1 to
commission the IO-Link ports of the IO-Link master or the connected IO-Link devices in two
different ways:
● Port configuration without S7-PCT
● Port configuration with S7-PCT
Port configuration without S7-PCT
Requirement
You have enabled the check box "Port configuration without S7-PCT" for the configuration of
the IO-Link master in STEP 7.
Procedure
You configure the IO-Link master directly in STEP 7:
● Enabling of the diagnostics
● Configuration of the I/O data lengths per port
● Enabling of the Port Qualifier Information (PQI)
● Port mode:
– Operation in "IO-Link autostart" mode (default)
– Operation in "IO-Link manual" mode
– Operated as DI
– Operated as DQ
– Disabled
Port configuration with S7-PCT
Requirement
You have disabled the check box "Port configuration without S7-PCT" for the configuration of
the IO-Link master in STEP 7.
Procedure
You configure the port configuration of the IO-Link master using the port configuration tool
S7-PCT as of V3.2.
Communication module CM 4xIO-Link 4xM12(6ES7147-5JD00-0BA0)
Manual, 10/2017, A5E32352322-AE
Parameters/address space
4.2 Explanation of the parameters
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