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SIMATIC Automation Tool features
You use the SIMATIC Automation Tool for maintenance and commissioning of network
devices.
The SIMATIC Automation Tool provides these features:
• Scan the network and create a table that maps the accessible devices on the network
• Identify devices by flashing device LEDs or HMI screens
• Set device IP, subnet, and gateway addresses
• Set the PROFINET name for a device
• Put a CPU in RUN or STOP mode
• Set the time in a CPU to the current time in your programming device
• Download a program to a CPU or HMI device
• Perform file operations for recipes, data logs, and other files on SIMATIC memory cards in
CPUs
• Back up and restore CPUs and HMI devices
• Retrieve service data from a CPU
• Read the diagnostic buffer of a CPU
• Perform a CPU memory reset
• Reset CPU to factory default values
• Reset communication parameters
• Update device firmware
• Export device diagnostics
• Export device information
• Export of PC data
• Schedule device operations
• Archive SIMATIC Automation Tool projects and files
See the User Guide for details about product operation.
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SIMATIC Automation Tool V4.0 SP2 Product information
Product Information, V4.0 SP2, 03/2021, A5E45044283-AF
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