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3.5.1 Installing PLANET Modbus Gateway Utility....................... 23 3.5.2 PLANET Modbus Gateway Utility Menu Bar ..................... 28 3.5.3 PLANET Modbus Gateway Utility Shortcut Menu Bar ..................34 3.5.4 PLANET Modbus Gateway Utility Device Function ................... 38 4. WEB MANAGEMENT ....................43 4.1 W...
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User’s Manual of IMG-110T 4.6.1 COM State ................................ 58 4.7 A ............................ 59 CCESS ONTROL 4.7.1 Device Security ..............................59 4.7.2 IP Filtering ................................. 60 4.7.3 MAC Filtering ..............................61 4.7.4 User Management ............................. 62 4.8 S ..........................63 YSTEM ANAGEMENT 4.8.1 System Information ............................
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 1. INTRODUCTION Thank you for purchasing PLANET Industrial 1-port RS422/485 Modbus Gateway, IMG-110T. The term “Industrial Modbus Gateway” mentioned in this user’s manual refers to the IMG-110T. 1.1 Package Contents Open the box of the Industrial Modbus Gateway and carefully unpack it. The box should contain the following items: ...
To complete the industrial automation environment application solution, PLANET has announced a first industrial level 1-port RS422/485 Modbus Gateway -- IMG-110T, a bridge that converts between Modbus TCP/IP Protocol and Modbus RTU/ASCII Protocol. It features a wide operating temperature range from -40 to 75 degrees C and a compact but rugged IP40 metal housing.
User’s Manual of IMG-110T Stable Performance in Hardened Environment Design The Industrial Modbus Gateway provides a high level of immunity against electromagnetic interference and heavy electrical surges which are usually found on plant floors or in curb-side traffic control cabinets. Its operating temperature ranging from -40 to 75 degrees C allows the Industrial Modbus Gateway to be placed in almost any difficult environment.
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User’s Manual of IMG-110T Multi Modbus TCP/IP Master to RTU/ASCII Slaves The Industrial Modbus Gateway can operate as a bridge between the multi-industrial TCP/IP master equipment and the industrial RTU/ASCII slave equipment in a Modbus TCP/IP networking environment to control the industrial RTU/ASCII slave equipment via the multi-industrial TCP/IP master equipment.
■ Built-in IP-based Web interface and telnet interface for remote management ■ Supports IP address and MAC address filtering function ■ PLANET Modbus Gateway utility for finding client device on the network and related IP subnet address setting to reset to factory default function ■...
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 1.6 Product Specifications Model IMG-110T Serial Port RS422/ RS485 x 1 Interface 5-contact terminal block for RS422/RS485 Connector Surge Protection 300bps to 115200bps Baud Rate (Data Rate) 7, 8 Data Bits Odd, Even, None, Space, Mark...
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 2. HARDWARE INSTALLATION This section describes the hardware features and installation of the Industrial Modbus Gateway’s components on the desktop or shelf. For easier management and control of the Industrial Modbus Gateway, familiarize yourself with its display indicators, and ports.
Function Lights: To indicate the link through that port is successfully established. LNK/ACT Green Blinks: To indicate that the IMG-110T is actively sending or receiving data over that port. ■ RS422/RS485 Serial Port Color Function Blinks: To indicate that the IMG-110T is actively transmitting data over that port.
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 2.1.3 2-Contact Terminal Block Pin Define ■ Wiring the Power Inputs: The 2-contact terminal block connector on the top panel of the Industrial Modbus Gateway is used for DC power input and the DC power input range is 9-48V.
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 2.1.5 Hardware DIP Switch for Reset to Default The upper panel of the Industrial Modbus Gateway consists one 4-bit DIP switch for resetting the system to the factory default mode. ■ Resetting to default through hardware DIP switch: 1: Find the hardware DIP switch that is near the RJ45 port of the Industrial Modbus Gateway.
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 3.2 Requirements ■ Ethernet Port Connection • Workstations running Windows XP/2003/Vista/7/8/2008/10, MAC OS X or later, Linux, UNIX, or other platforms are compatible with TCP/IP protocols. • Workstations are installed with Ethernet NIC (Network Interface Card) ...
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 3.3.2 Login the Industrial Modbus Gateway Web Interface The following shows how to start up the Web Management of the Industrial Modbus Gateway. Note the Industrial Modbus Gateway is configured through an Ethernet connection. Please make sure the manager PC must be set to the same IP subnet address.
User’s Manual of IMG-110T Figure 3-5: Web Main Screen of Industrial Modbus Gateway For security reason, please change and memorize the new password after this first setup. Only accept command in lowercase letter under web interface. 3.3.3 Remote IP-based Telnet Interface The Industrial Modbus Gateway offers management features that allow users to manage the Industrial Modbus Gateway from anywhere on the network through remote IP-based telnet interface.
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 3.3.4 Login the Industrial Modbus Gateway Telnet Interface The following shows how to start up the Telnet Management of the Industrial Modbus Gateway. Note the Industrial Modbus Gateway is configured through an Ethernet connection. Please make sure the manager PC must be set to the same IP subnet address.
3.4 PLANET Smart Discovery Utility For easily listing the Industrial Modbus Gateway in your Ethernet environment, the Planet Smart Discovery Utility is an ideal solution. The following installation instructions are to guide you to running the Planet Smart Discovery Utility.
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Switch under a different IP subnet address. Press the “Connect to Device” button and input the username and password in the web login screen, and the web main screen appears in Figure 3-5. Press the “Exit” button to shut down the Planet Smart Discovery Utility. -22-...
3.5 PLANET Modbus Gateway Utility For easily listing and manage the Industrial Modbus Gateway in your Ethernet environment, the Planet Modbus Gateway Utility is an ideal solution. The following installation instructions are to guide you to installing and running the Planet Modbus Gateway Utility.
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User’s Manual of IMG-110T Figure 3-12: Planet Modbus Gateway Utility Install Process Screen Figure 3-13: Planet Modbus Gateway Utility Install Process Screen -24-...
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User’s Manual of IMG-110T Figure 3-14: Planet Modbus Gateway Utility Install Process Screen Figure 3-15: Planet Modbus Gateway Utility Install Process Screen -25-...
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User’s Manual of IMG-110T 4. Find the PLANET Modbus Gateway UtilityV1.0 icon on the desktop of administrator PC and double-click it as the icon is shown below: 5. After the installation is completed, execute the utility. The screen in Figure 3-18 appears.
- Tools(Y) Figure 3-19: Planet Modbus Gateway Utility Tool Bar Screen 3.5.2.1 System(S) This function provides Select network adapter and Quit for closing the PLANET Modbus Gateway Utility. Figure 3-20: Planet Modbus Gateway Utility Tool Bar System Screen Select network adapter This option allows you to select the network adapter for management;...
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Figure 3-23: Planet Modbus Gateway Utility Tool Bar -- Tools Screen Search Device This option allows you to search the connected Industrial Modbus Gateway for further management . Figure 3-24: Planet Modbus Gateway Utility Bar Tool -- Search Device Screen -29-...
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- Switch - All Figure 3-25: Planet Modbus Gateway Utility Tool Bar -- Set Search Type Screen The Switch option is a future feature which is not applicable at the moment. Suggest choose the option of Serial Server or All for this function.
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“alert log query”. When selecting “Saved to a text file”, a file name has to be given and then it is saved in whatever folder you want. Figure 3-26: Planet Modbus Gateway Utility Tool Bar -- Set Timing Save Screen -31-...
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Discovery process begins from PC Port 65533, Port 65534 sends commands to the specified device, and then Port 65533 responds to a search and send confirmation to PC Port 65534 to complete the search. Figure 3-27: Planet Modbus Gateway Utility Tool Bar -- Manual Add Device Screen -32-...
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This option allows you to set up IP addresses for a group of devices so as to avoid one-by-one setting, which can save a lot of time. Figure 3-28: Planet Modbus Gateway Utility Tool Bar -- Batch IP Settings Screen The IP address range is 1-254.
Figure 3-29: Planet Modbus Gateway Utility Shortcut Menu Bar Screen 3.5.3.1 User Manager : This function provides setting up user name and password for PLANET Modbus Gateway Utility to avoid illegal modification on the Industrial Modbus Gateway. Figure 3-30: Planet Modbus Gateway Utility Shortcut Menu Bar -- User Manager Screen...
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Step 2: Choose a “.BEF” document to be imported. 3.5.3.3 Export Network Topology : This function provides the export topology in PLANET Modbus Gateway Utility and saved as “.BEF” document. For further review, please use the “Import Network Topology” function.
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: This options allows you to set up IP addresses for a group of devices so as to avoid one-by-one setting, which can save a lot of time. Figure 3-32: Planet Modbus Gateway Utility Shortcut Menu Bar -- Batch IP Settings Screen The IP address range is 1-254.
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3.5.3.10 Batch Monitoring IP Settings : This option allows you to set up Batch Monitoring IP addresses for a group of devices. Figure 3-33: Planet Modbus Gateway Utility Shortcut Menu Bar -- Batch Monitoring IP Settings Screen Button : Click to apply changes.
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 3.5.4 PLANET Modbus Gateway Utility Device Function The Planet Modbus Gateway Utility provides the following options for Industrial Modbus Gateway device management. - Web Console - Device Name -Network Settings -Reset Factory Settings -Recent Alarm 3.5.4.1 Web Console This function provides Web interface access to PLANET Modbus Gateway.
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User’s Manual of IMG-110T 3.5.4.2 Device Name This function is to change the Device name and Device number of PLANET Modbus Gateway. Figure 3-35: Planet Modbus Gateway Utility Device Function -- Device Name Screen Button : Click to apply changes.
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User’s Manual of IMG-110T 3.5.4.4 Reset Factory Settings This function is to reset PLANET Modbus Gateway to default as the procedure is shown below: Step 1: Activate PLANET Modbus Gateway Utility. Step 2: Search the Industrial Modbus Gateway that needs to be reset to default and choose the device.
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User’s Manual of IMG-110T Figure 3-39: Planet Modbus Gateway Utility Device Function -- Restore Factory Settings Screen Button : Click to apply changes. Step 6: Search the device again and you will see the Industrial Modbus Gateway with default IP address, and username and password: “admin”.
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3.5.4.5 Recent Alarm This function is to display the alarm information of PLANET Modbus Gateway and also save the alarm messages for further review or export the alarm message as an excel file. The three options for the alarm message are shown below: -Clear-clear alarm messages.
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 4. WEB MANAGEMENT The Industrial Modbus Gateway provides Web interface for management function configuration which makes the Industrial Modbus Gateway operate more effectively. It can be configured through the various web browser tools. A network administrator can manage and monitor the Industrial Modbus Gateway from the local LAN. This section indicates how to configure the Industrial Modbus Gateway to enable its management to function.
User’s Manual of IMG-110T Configure access control parameters as shown below: Device Security: allow disable or enable Web Console, Telnet Console, Device Access Control Search, Firmware Upgrade function. IP Filtering: set up the IP address filtering function. MAC Filtering: set up the MAC address filtering function.
User’s Manual of IMG-110T • Description The description of Industrial Modbus Gateway. • Contact The contact information of Industrial Modbus Gateway. The serial number information of Industrial Modbus Gateway. • Serial No. The number of LANs information of Industrial Modbus Gateway.
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DNS Server DNS is the way that Internet domain names are identified and translated into IP addresses. A domain name is an alphanumeric name, such as planet.com, which is usually easier to remember. Assign the DNS server IP address. IP Report •...
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 4.4 Serial Settings This function provides serial port COM settings and displays the serial port COM information. 4.4.1 COM Settings This function allows setting the value for serial port COM configuration. Press the “Submit” button to set the value and the screen in Figure 4-4 appears.
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User’s Manual of IMG-110T • Parity Bits It is a simple method to check out fault in serial communication; it has 4 types: Even/Odd/Mark/Space. Flow control is determined by product hardware. For some reason, it cannot • Flow Control communicate. When communication is blocked, open the flow control to ease. Flow control allows the data receiving device to notify the data sending device when it is unable to receive the data, so that it can be stopped.
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 4.4.2 COM Information The function displays the serial port COM information like the current communication parameters of serial port as shown below: -Port -Alias -Baud Rate -Data Bits -Stop Bits -Parity Bits -Flow Control -FIFO -Work Mode The screen in Figure 4-5 appears.
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 4.5 Modbus Settings This function provides Modbus parameters settings and slave ID settings. 4.5.1 Modbus Parameters This function allows setting the value for serial port COM configuration. Press the “Submit” button to set the value and the screen in Figure 4-4 appears.
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User’s Manual of IMG-110T In a single frame, the time difference is between a single character and the next • Inter-character character. When the value is 0, the default is 3.5T time, which is equal to 3.5 characters. Timeout The available range is 10-500ms.
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 4.5.2 Slave ID The Modbus protocol provides a unique ID number (1 ~ 247) to all of the slave devices. The ID number is used to identify the address of the slave device to respond to requests from the master device. The Modbus equipment ID number is set by the manufacturers.
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User’s Manual of IMG-110T The page includes the following fields: Slave ID Map Table Display the channel number. Channel No. This parameter is to choose RTU Master/RTU Slave/ASCII Master/ASCII Slave Channel Type operation modes; the default mode is RTU Slave.
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User’s Manual of IMG-110T RTU Master Mode This function allows the users to use Modbus RTU master device and Modbus TCP device to achieve communication. The operation mode of the Industrial Modbus Gateway is set to RTU Master. Step 1: Choose “RTU Master” in Channel Type.
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User’s Manual of IMG-110T RTU Slave Mode This function allows the users to use Modbus TCP master device and Modbus RTU device to achieve communication. The operation mode of the Industrial Modbus Gateway is set to RTU Slave. Step 1: Choose” RTU Slave” in Channel Type.
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User’s Manual of IMG-110T ASCII Master Mode This function allows the users to use Modbus ASCII master device and Modbus TCP device to achieve communication. The operation mode of the Industrial Modbus Gateway is set to ASCII Master. Step 1: Choose “ASCII Master” in Channel Type.
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User’s Manual of IMG-110T ASCII Slave Mode This function allows the users to use Modbus TCP master device and Modbus ASCII device to achieve communication. The operation mode of the gateway is set to ASCII Slave. Step 1: Choose “ASCII Slave” in Channel Type.
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 4.6 State Monitoring This function provides Industrial Modbus Gateway serial COM port traffic counter in Transmit (TX) and Receive (RX). 4.6.1 COM State The function displays the serial port COM state information like the current traffic counter of serial port as the screen in Figure 4-17 appears.
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 4.7 Access Control This function provides access control parameters of Industrial Modbus Gateway, including: -Device Security -IP Filtering -MAC Filtering -User Management 4.7.1 Device Security This function allows setting up the device security functions of Industrial Modbus Gateway. Press the “Submit” button to apply the setting as the screen in Figure 4-18 appears.
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 4.7.2 IP Filtering This function allows setting up the IP Filtering function of Industrial Modbus Gateway. Press the “Submit” button to apply the setting as the screen in Figure 4-19 appears. Figure 4-19: Access Control -- IP Filtering Screen...
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 4.7.3 MAC Filtering This function allows setting up the MAC Filtering function of Industrial Modbus Gateway. Press the “Submit” button to apply the setting as the screen in Figure 4-20 appears. Figure 4-20: Access Control -- MAC Filtering Screen...
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 4.7.4 User Management This function allows setting up the user management function of Industrial Modbus Gateway. Press the “Submit” button to apply the setting as the screen in Figure 4-21 appears. Figure 4-21: Access Control -- User Management Screen...
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 4.8 System Management This function provides access control parameters of Industrial Modbus Gateway, including: -System Information -System File -Logout & Reboot 4.8.1 System Information This function allows editing the system information of Industrial Modbus Gateway. Press the “Submit” button to apply the setting as the screen in Figure 4-22 appears.
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 4.8.2 System File This function allows setting up the factory default/Configuration backup and restore/web firmware upgrade functions of Industrial Modbus Gateway as the screen in Figure 4-23 appears. Figure 4-23: System Management-System File Screen The page includes the following configurable data:...
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 4.8.3 Logout & Reboot This function provides setting up system logout function and rebooting system function of Industrial Modbus Gateway as the screen in Figure 4-24 appears. Figure 4-24: System Management -- Logout & Reboot Screen...
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 5. COMMAND LINE INTERFACE 5.1 Accessing the CLI When accessing the management interface for the Industrial Modbus Gateway via a remote Telnet connection, the Industrial Modbus Gateway can be managed by entering command keywords and parameters at the prompt. Using the Industrial Modbus Gateway’s command line interface (CLI) is very similar to entering commands on an UNIX system.
User’s Manual of IMG-110T 6. COMMAND LINE MODE The CLI groups all the commands in appropriate modes according to the nature of the command. A sample of the CLI command modes are described below. Each of the command modes supports specific software commands.
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User’s Manual of IMG-110T Manage This command will access system management menu. Information This command will access system information setup menu. Modbus This command will access Modbus setup menu. Command lines online help Description: Command lines port provides the following online help...
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User’s Manual of IMG-110T History command Description: Command lines port can provide the function similar to Dos key. It automatically saves command lines that users type in, and users can use these history commands. Syntax: Operating Result Visit previous history command <...
User’s Manual of IMG-110T APPENDIX A A.1 Device‘s RJ45 Pin Assignments ■ 10/100Mbps, 10/100BASE-TX Contact MDI-X 1 (TX +) 2 (TX -) 3 (RX +) 6 (RX -) 4, 5, 7, 8 Not used Not used Implicit implementation of the crossover function within a twisted-pair cable, or at a wiring panel, while not expressly forbidden, is beyond the scope of this standard.
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