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Driver Manual (Supplement to the FieldServer Instruction Manual) FS-8704-14 EtherNet/IP APPLICABILITY & EFFECTIVITY Effective for all systems manufactured after November 2011 A Sierra Monitor Company Driver Version: 1.05 Document Revision:...
Appendix A.5.1. FieldServer Configuration File ... 17 Appendix A.5.2. The PLC Program ... 18 Appendix A.6. Configuring a FieldServer to read and write Data to and from a PLC..20 Appendix A.6.1. FieldServer Configuration File ... 21 Appendix A.6.2.
FS-8704-14 EtherNet/IP Manual ETHERNET/IP DESCRIPTION The Ethernet IP driver allows the FieldServer to transfer data to and from devices over Ethernet using the EtherNet/IP protocol. The FieldServer can emulate either a Server or Client. EtherNet/IP uses CIP (Control and Information Protocol), the common network, transport and application layers also shared by ControlNet and DeviceNet.
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...
This section documents and describes the parameters necessary for configuring the FieldServer to communicate with an EtherNet/IP Server. The configuration file tells the FieldServer about its interfaces, and the routing of data required. In order to enable the FieldServer for EtherNet/IP communications, the driver independent FieldServer buffers need to be declared in the “Data Arrays”...
This section documents and describes the parameters necessary for configuring the FieldServer to communicate with an EtherNet/IP Client. The configuration file tells the FieldServer about its interfaces, and the routing of data required. In order to enable the FieldServer for EtherNet/IP communications, the driver independent FieldServer buffers need to be declared in the “Data Arrays”...
Address Instance of the class to be served. 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 characters One of the Data Array names...
Address Address in the file 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 Refer to The driver Refer to Appendix D for further...
Appendix A.2. FieldServer as an Adapter and Scanner. It is possible for the FieldServer to act as a scanner and an adapter at the same time so long as the scanner and adapter are configured on different ports. Consequently this functionality is not possible on an FS-X20 platform.
Note: The corresponding PLC Tag Name can be different and probably will be. See Message Block Below. 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 17 of 30 , EIP_01...
NOTE: It is important to use the Ladder logic to ensure that only one Message block can be executing at any time. 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 MESSAGE Data Type must be used.
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Step 5: Download the program and set the PLC to Run Mode. 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 Remote FieldServer Tag Configured in the FieldServer (see...
When the FieldServer is the active component as shown below (i.e: the FieldServer Polls the PLC and not the other way around), then very little programming is needed in the PLC, other than the Tag Creation and setting the PLC IP Address.
, DA_Write 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 21 of 30 These are the PLC Tag names that will be accessed in the PLC.
PLC as it allows for much more efficient communications and reduces complexity when mapping data in the FieldServer. It is better to think of these tags as a “I/O Buffer” Interface that the real tags in the PLC get mapped to.
In this situation the best way to download new firmware would be to manually disconnect the scanner or adapter that the FieldServer is connected to. 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...
Server map 1: N21: 0-31 Server map 2: N21: 32-100 This will panic the FieldServer and crash RS view as the DH+ will attempt to map N21: 0-100. If set up as Server Map 1: N21: 0-100, no problems are experienced.