Configuring The Modbus Rtu Machine Adapter; Modifying The Configuration Files Manually - Emerson PACSystems User Manual

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GFK-3019G
Source Zip
com.ge.ac.machineadapter.
modbusrtu-170102.1.0-
app.zip
com.ge.ac.machineadapter.
modbusrtu-170102.1.0-
app.zip
com.ge.ac.machineadapter.
modbusrtu-170102.1.0-
cfg.zip
com.ge.ac.machineadapter.
modbusrtu-170102.1.0-
cfg.zip
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Configuring the Modbus RTU Machine Adapter

The Modbus RTU Machine Adapter configuration files can be prepared using two methods:
1. Refer to Section 4.4.1, Modifying the Configuration Files Manually, to edit the
2. Refer to Section 4.4.2 Field Agent Configuration Tool, to use the Field Agent
4.4.1

Modifying the Configuration Files Manually

The steps to configure the Modbus RTU Machine Adapter are:
1. Open the file com.ge.ac.machineadapter.modbusrtu-0.xml for editing.
2. Edit the data contained within the dataNodeConfigs element:
Modbus RTU Machine Adapter
Source File
machine\bundles\com.ge.ac.
machineadapter.modbusrtu-
170102.1.0.jar
machine\lib\mfarxtx.so
configuration\machine\com.g
e.ac.machineadapter.modbusr
tu-0.config
configuration\machine\com.g
e.ac.machineadapter.modbusr
tu-0.xml
configuration files manually.
Configuration Tool to generate the configuration files.
• Each channel element corresponds to set of serial port settings.
The protocol attribute must be set to "SERIAL".
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The encoding attribute must be set to "RTU".
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The portName attribute must be set to "/dev/ttyO0", which is the RS-232
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serial port device number.
The baudRate attribute must be set to the desired serial port baud rate. The
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default value is 9600.
The parity attribute must be set to the desired serial port parity. Possible
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values include "EVEN", "ODD", and "NONE". The value is "NONE".
regBaseAddress is an optional parameter whose value is either "0" (the
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default) or "1". This controls whether the Machine Adapter uses zero or one-
based addressing for the registers. If set to "1", the Machine Adapter will
subtract one from each register address configured for this Modbus Slave.
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Deployment
Destination
<Application
Template>\machine\bundl
es
<Application
Template>\machine\lib
<Configuration
Template>\configuration\
machine
<Configuration
Template>\configuration\
machine
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