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Driver Manual (Supplement to the FieldServer Instruction Manual) FS-8700-66 GE SNP APPLICABILITY & EFFECTIVITY Effective for all systems manufactured after July 2011 A Sierra Monitor Company Driver Version: 1.05 Document Revision:...
FS-8700-66 GE-SNP Driver Manual GE_SNP DESCRIPTION The GE-SNP Serial driver allows the FieldServer to transfer data to and from devices over either RS-232 or RS-485 using GE-SNP Serial protocol. The FieldServer can emulate either a Server or Client. The FieldServer provides functions to read and write PLC memory and change the privilege level. Standard SNP mailbox messages are used.
This section documents and describes the parameters necessary for configuring the FieldServer to communicate with a GE_SNP Server. The configuration file tells the FieldServer about its interfaces, and the routing of data required. In order to enable the FieldServer for GE_SNP communications, the driver independent FieldServer buffers need to be declared in the “Data Arrays”...
Not all ports shown are necessarily supported by the hardware. Consult the appropriate Instruction manual for details of the ports available on specific hardware. FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web: www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262 2299 Fax: (408) 262 2269 Toll Free: (888) 509 1970 email: support@fieldserver.com Series 90-70 PLC’s 19,200...
Scan_Interval Rate at which data is polled FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web: www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262 2299 Fax: (408) 262 2269 Toll Free: (888) 509 1970 email: support@fieldserver.com Legal Values Up to 32 alphanumeric characters...
5.3.5 Map Descriptor Example 2 – Simple Write This example writes data from the FieldServer Data Array called DA_AO to the PLC identified as NODE1. The write is repeated every 5 seconds. Ten word values are written to the PLC’s %AQ Data Table starting at location 20.
5.3.6 Map Descriptor Example 3 – Handling BITs This example writes data from the FieldServer Data Array called DA_AO to the PLC identified as NODE1. The write is repeated every 5 seconds. Ten word values are written to the PLC’s %AQ Data Table starting at location 20.
This section documents and describes the parameters necessary for configuring the FieldServer to communicate with a GE_SNP Client. The configuration file tells the FieldServer about its interfaces, and the routing of data required. In order to enable the FieldServer for GE_SNP communications, the driver independent FieldServer buffers need to be declared in the “Data Arrays”...
Not all ports shown are necessarily supported by the hardware. Consult the appropriate Instruction manual for details of the ports available on specific hardware. FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web: www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262 2299 Fax: (408) 262 2269 Toll Free: (888) 509 1970 email: support@fieldserver.com Legal Values Up to 32 alphanumeric characters Refer to SNP.
When a Client attempts to establish a connection it may send the name of the Node it wishes to connect to or a Null Node name. If it sends a Null Node name then the FieldServer will connect if any SNP Nodes have been defined for the same port as the Client using the Null name.
When BIT data is transferred in BIT format than scaling is not applied. When BIT data is transferred using bye format’s then scaling may be applied. Refer to the FieldServer Configuration Manual for more information on how scaling is handled by the FieldServer. Valid for driver Version 1.02 and later.
FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web: www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262 2299 Fax: (408) 262 2269 Toll Free: (888) 509 1970 email: support@fieldserver.com A possible cause is that the poll frequency is so low that the time...
Edit the CSV, correct the problem and reset the FieldServer FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web: www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262 2299 Fax: (408) 262 2269 Toll Free: (888) 509 1970 email: support@fieldserver.com Explanation The length of the Map Descriptor defined to expose driver statistics must be at least 660.
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Edit the CSV, correct the problem and reset the FieldServer FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web: www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262 2299 Fax: (408) 262 2269 Toll Free: (888) 509 1970 email: support@fieldserver.com Explanation The length of some messages is variable and is dependent on settings or the particular implementation of the SNP.
Appendix C.2. Driver Stats The GE-SNP Serial Driver records statistics differently from the way that FieldServer driver normally records statistics. This difference arises from the fact that this driver is not a simple poll response driver - a single poll can generate a large number of response fragments.
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46 GE_STAT_CLIENT_SENDS_FRAG 47 GE_STAT_CD_UPD_IC_TIMEOUT FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web: www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262 2299 Fax: (408) 262 2269 Toll Free: (888) 509 1970 email: support@fieldserver.com Description Counts the number of times the driver responds to connection attempts when acting as a Server Counts the number of connection attempts that timed out.
Valid for driver Version 1.02 and later. FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web: www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262 2299 Fax: (408) 262 2269 Toll Free: (888) 509 1970 email: support@fieldserver.com Description Counts the number of times a message was ignored. A message will be printed to the error log with the reason.
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A comm or write verify error occurred during save or restore. Device is write protected. FieldServer Technologies 1991 Tarob Court Milpitas, California 95035 USA Web: www.fieldserver.com Tel: (408) 262 2299 Fax: (408) 262 2269 Toll Free: (888) 509 1970 email: support@fieldserver.com Page 26 of 28...