IBA ibaPDA Owner's manual

ibaPDA

I/O Manager

Manual Part2

Issue 8.4

Measurement Systems for Industry and Energy

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tee for complete conformity. However, the informaon furnished in this publicaon is updated

regularly. Required correcons are contained in the following regulaons or can be downloaded

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Version Date Revision Author Version SW

8.4 08/2023 New Anaylcs tab, Virtual interface RM 8.4.0

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company names menoned in this manual can be labels or registered trademarks of the corre-

sponding owners.

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Contents

1 Aboutthisdocumentaon ................................................................................................8

1.1 Target group and previous knowledge ..................................................................... 8

1.2 Notaons .................................................................................................................. 8

1.3 Used symbols ............................................................................................. ...............9

1.4 Documentaon structure ....................................................................................... 10

2 Introducon .................................................................................................................... 11

3 I/O Manager toolbar .......................................................................................................12

4 Generalsengsandinformaon ....................................................................................14

4.1 Sengs ................................................................................................................... 14

4.2 Signal names ............................................................................................ ...............18

4.3 Address books ........................................................................................................ 20

4.4 Cercates ............................................................................................ ..................22

4.4.1 Cercates ............................................................................................ ..................22

4.4.2 Central cercate store .......................................................................................... 23

4.4.3 Manage cercates ................................................................................................25

4.4.3.1 Generate a new cercate .................................................................................. 26

4.4.3.2 Add cercate .....................................................................................................27

4.4.3.3 Export cercates ............................................................................................. ...27

4.4.4 Use cercates .......................................................................................................28

4.4.5 Save and protect cercates .................................................................................. 29

4.5 Time synchronizaon ............................................................................................. .29

4.5.1 DCF77 ..................................................................................................................... 30

4.5.1.1 DCF77 Conguraon ............................................................................................ 32

4.5.2 IEC 1131 .................................................................................................................. 33

4.5.3 PTPv2 ...................................................................................................................... 34

4.5.4 ibaClock .................................................................................................................. 38

4.5.5 NTP via Windows .................................................................................................... 39

4.6 Module overview ............................................................................................. .......40

4.7 Knowhow protecon .............................................................................................. 42

4.7.1 Introducon ............................................................................................................ 42

4.7.2 Creang a protecon scheme ................................................................................. 44

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4.7.3 Applicaon of a protecon scheme ........................................................................ 45

4.7.4 Removing the protecon ........................................................................................ 45

4.7.5 Imporng and exporng protected elements ........................................................ 46

4.7.6 Unlocking protected items ..................................................................................... 46

4.8 Watchdog ............................................................................................................... 47

4.8.1 Informaon about the watchdog telegram structure, ASCII format .......................48

4.8.2 Informaon about the watchdog telegram structure, binary format ..................... 49

4.9 External conguraon ............................................................................................ 50

4.10 Stop prevenon ......................................................................................................51

4.11 Boards ............................................................................................. ........................52

4.12 Interfaces ................................................................................................................ 56

4.13 Interrupt Info .......................................................................................................... 59

4.14 Mulstaon ............................................................................................................62

4.15 OPC server .............................................................................................................. 63

4.16 OPC UA Server ........................................................................................................ 64

4.16.1 General informaon ...............................................................................................64

4.17 SNMP server ...........................................................................................................65

4.18 IEC61850 server ...................................................................................................... 66

4.19 Signal usage display ................................................................................................ 66

5 Groups and vector signals ...............................................................................................67

5.1 Adding groups ......................................................................................................... 67

5.2 Renaming a group ............................................................................................. ...... 68

5.3 Deleng groups....................................................................................................... 68

5.4 Move groups ...........................................................................................................68

5.5 Assigning signals to a group .................................................................................... 68

5.6 Deleng signals from a group ................................................................................. 68

5.7 Remove inacve signals from a group .................................................................... 69

5.8 Creang vector signals ............................................................................................ 69

5.9 Export groups ......................................................................................................... 70

6 Text signals and text processing ....................................................................................... 71

6.1 Using the text signals ............................................................................................ ..71

6.2 Properes of the text signals .................................................................................. 72

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6.3 Using text signals .................................................................................................... 79

6.3.1 General ................................................................................................................... 79

6.3.2 Conguraon .......................................................................................................... 80

6.3.3 Creang text signals ............................................................................................. ... 82

6.3.4 Delete the text signals ............................................................................................ 83

6.3.5 Dening and assigning text signals ......................................................................... 83

6.4 Text interface .......................................................................................................... 84

6.5 Text splier module ................................................................................................ 85

6.5.1 Add text splier module ......................................................................................... 86

6.5.2 Module sengs ...................................................................................................... 86

6.5.2.1 Fixed width split mode ........................................................................................ 88

6.5.2.2 Delimited split mode ........................................................................................... 89

6.5.2.3 Split mode JSON .................................................................................................. 91

6.5.3 Signal conguraon ................................................................................................92

6.6 Text signals via TCP/IP and UDP .............................................................................. 93

6.6.1 Add module ............................................................................................................ 93

6.6.2 Module sengs ...................................................................................................... 93

6.6.3 Signal conguraon ................................................................................................94

6.7 Text signals via serial (COM) interface .................................................................... 95

6.7.1 Add module ............................................................................................................ 95

6.7.2 Module sengs ...................................................................................................... 95

6.7.3 Signal conguraon ................................................................................................96

6.8 Text signals via text le (le text) ............................................................................ 97

6.8.1 Add module ............................................................................................................ 97

6.8.2 Module sengs ...................................................................................................... 97

6.8.3 Signal conguraon ................................................................................................99

6.9 Custom text (text creator) .................................................................................... 100

6.9.1 Add module ..........................................................................................................100

6.9.2 Module sengs .................................................................................................... 100

6.9.3 Text creator ........................................................................................................... 101

6.9.4 Signal conguraon ..............................................................................................104

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6.10 Text via ibaQPanel text input ................................................................................ 105

6.10.1 Add module ..........................................................................................................105

6.10.2 Module sengs .................................................................................................... 105

6.10.3 Signal conguraon ..............................................................................................106

6.11 Text shi register .................................................................................................. 107

6.11.1 Add module ..........................................................................................................107

6.11.2 Module sengs .................................................................................................... 107

6.11.3 Signal conguraon ..............................................................................................109

6.11.4 Applicaon example for text shi register ............................................................ 110

6.12 Text signals via OPC / OPC UA ............................................................................... 112

6.13 Text signals via other interfaces ............................................................................ 112

7 Outputs ......................................................................................................................... 113

7.1 Create outputs ......................................................................................................115

7.2 Adding output modules ........................................................................................ 116

7.3 Seng up output modules ................................................................................... 116

7.3.1 General module sengs ....................................................................................... 116

7.3.2 OPC output module .............................................................................................. 117

7.3.2.1 General tab ........................................................................................................ 117

7.3.2.2 Analog and Digital tab ....................................................................................... 118

7.3.3 E-mail ....................................................................................................................119

7.3.3.1 Basic sengs (accounts and elds) ................................................................... 119

7.3.3.2 E-Mail module sengs ...................................................................................... 120

7.3.4 ibaNet750-BM, -BM-D output modules ............................................................... 123

7.3.4.1 General tab ........................................................................................................ 123

7.3.4.2 Analog and Digital tab ....................................................................................... 124

7.3.5 ibaL2B... output modules ..................................................................................... 125

7.3.5.1 General tab ........................................................................................................ 125

7.3.5.2 Analog and Digital tab ....................................................................................... 125

7.3.6 Reecve Memory output module ...................................................................... 126

7.3.6.1 General tab ........................................................................................................ 126

7.3.6.2 Analog and Digital tab ....................................................................................... 126

7.3.7 EtherNet/IP I/O output modules .......................................................................... 126

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7.3.8 Generic TCP output module ................................................................................. 127

7.3.8.1 General tab ........................................................................................................ 127

7.3.8.2 Analog and Digital tab ....................................................................................... 128

7.3.9 Generic UDP output module ................................................................................ 129

7.3.9.1 General tab ........................................................................................................ 129

7.3.9.2 Analog and Digital tab ....................................................................................... 129

7.3.10 Modbus-TCP Client output module ...................................................................... 130

7.3.11 ABB-Xplorer output module ................................................................................. 131

7.3.12 OMRON-Xplorer output module .......................................................................... 131

7.3.13 S7-Xplorer output module .................................................................................... 133

7.3.14 TwinCAT-Xplorer output module .......................................................................... 133

7.3.15 ibaCapture output module ................................................................................... 135

7.3.15.1 General tab ........................................................................................................ 135

7.3.15.2 Video server tab ................................................................................................135

7.3.15.3 Analog and Digital tab ....................................................................................... 136

7.3.16 ibaVision output module ...................................................................................... 137

7.3.17 FOB alarm output module .................................................................................... 137

7.3.17.1 General tab ........................................................................................................ 137

7.3.17.2 Analog and Digital tab ....................................................................................... 137

7.3.18 Outputs to the iba modular system (ibaPADU-S) ....................... ........................... 138

7.3.19 Outputs to iba bus modules (ibaBM-...) ............................................................... 139

7.3.20 Outputs to iba system interconnecons (ibaLink-...) ............................................139

7.3.21 OPC UA client output module ............................................................................... 140

7.3.22 MQTT output module ........................................................................................... 142

7.3.23 Output module for SQL commands to SQL databases .......................................... 146

7.3.24 ibaNet-E output modules ..................................................................................... 147

7.3.25 ibaM-DAQ outputs ................................................................................................148

8 Support and contact ...................................................................................................... 149

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About this documentaon ibaPDA

1 Aboutthisdocumentaon

This documentaon describes the funcon and applicaon of the soware

ibaPDA.

1.1 Target group and previous knowledge

This manual is aimed at qualied professionals who are familiar with handling electrical and

electronic modules as well as communicaon and measurement technology. A person is regard-

ed as professional if he/she is capable of assessing safety and recognizing possible consequenc-

es and risks on the basis of his/her specialist training, knowledge and experience and knowl-

edge of the standard regulaons.

1.2 Notaons

In this manual, the following notaons are used:

Acon Notaon

Menu command Menu Logic diagram

Calling the menu command Step 1 – Step 2 – Step 3 – Step x

Example:

Select the menu Logic diagram – Add – New funcon

block.

Keys <Key name>

Example: <Alt>; <F1>

Press the keys simultaneously <Key name> + <Key name>

Example: <Alt> + <Ctrl>

Buons <Key name>

Example: <OK>; <Cancel>

Filenames, paths Filename, Path

Example: Test.docx

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1.3 Used symbols

If safety instrucons or other notes are used in this manual, they mean:

Danger!

Thenon-observanceofthissafetyinformaonmayresultinanimminentrisk

of death or severe injury:

■ Observe the specied measures.

Warning!

Thenon-observanceofthissafetyinformaonmayresultinapotenalriskof

death or severe injury!

■ Observe the specied measures.

Cauon!

Thenon-observanceofthissafetyinformaonmayresultinapotenalriskof

injury or material damage!

■ Observe the specied measures

Note

A note species special requirements or acons to be observed.

Tip

Tip or example as a helpful note or insider p to make the work a lile bit easier.

Otherdocumentaon

Reference to addional documentaon or further reading.

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1.4 Documentaonstructure

This documentaon fully describes the funconality of the ibaPDA system. It is designed both as

a tutorial as well as a reference document. The secons and chapters essenally follow the pro-

cedure for conguring the system.

In addion to this documentaon, you can examine the version history in the main menu, Help

– Version history (le versions.htm) for the latest informaon about the installed version of

the program. This le not only lists the bugs that have been eliminated, but also refers to exten-

sions of the system in note form.

In addion, special "NewFeatures…" documentaon comes with any soware update that in-

cludes signicant new features, which provides a more detailed descripon of the new features.

The state of the soware to which the respecve part of this documentaon refers is listed in

the revision table on page 2.

The ibaPDA system documentaon (PDF and printed version) is divided into seven separate

parts. Each part has its own secon and page numbering beginning at 1, and is updated inde-

pendently.

Part 1 Introducon and installaon General notes, license policy and add-ons

Installaon and program start

User interface, system architecture, client server

User management, prinng

Part 2 I/O Manager Basic informaon about the I/O Manager, general

sengs

Groups and vector signals, text signals, outputs,

conguraon les

Part 3 Data interfaces and mod-

ules

Interfaces for the measurement data acquision

Standard interfaces, ibaFOB, Ethernet-based inter-

faces and more. For interfaces for which there are

separate manuals, these are referred to.

Part 4 Expression builder All funcons for calculang virtual signals

Part 5 Data storage Types of data recording, recording proles, signal

selecon

Part 6 Data visualizaon All display modes for live data, their operaon and

sengs

Part 7 Appendix Various addions, error lisngs, etc.

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2 Introducon

"I/O" stands for "Input/Output". The I/O Manager is the main dialog for all conguraon set-

ngs related to signals and interfaces.

All data sources and signals must rst be dened in the I/O Manager. How the signals are then

eventually used (display, recording, etc.) is subsequently determined in the other dialogs.

All seng opons are clearly displayed in the I/O Manager. When conguring the input and

output modules, the user is acvely supported through context-sensive selecon menus. This

helps to avoid conguraon errors. Each change in conguraons is checked by the system be-

fore being applied.

Note

Changing the conguraon sengs in the I/O Manager always causes acquision

to automacally stop and restart!

The I/O Manager can be accessed as follows:

■ Via the Congure - I/O Manager menu

■ Via the buon

You will nd four main secons in the I/O Manager where adjustments can make other sengs:

■ Inputs

■ Outputs

■ Analycs

■ Groups

■ General

Due to the extent and scope, the descripon of the data interfaces, which are an integral part of

the I/O Manager, is addressed separately in part 3 of the manual.

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I/O Manager toolbar ibaPDA

3 I/O Manager toolbar

Toolbar

Symbol Descripon

New conguraon; then choose whether an empty conguraon (reset to factory

sengs without auto-detect) or a new conguraon with auto-detecng the con-

nected modules should be created. If you click on this buon while the acquision

is running, an addional opon appears oering a new conguraon with auto-de-

tect aer automac stop of acquision.

Opens an exisng I/O conguraon le (XML-le .io). Aerwards, if applicable, the

possibility to keep or delete inial values, if the conguraon contains correspond-

ing modules.

Opens an exisng I/O conguraon le (.io or .zip) in simulaon mode. The loaded

conguraon is not aligned with the currently exisng hardware or licenses and

cannot be applied. The simulaon mode only provides for display of any I/O con-

guraon.

Opens access to the automacally saved backups of the I/O conguraon in the

path %ProgramData%iba\ibaPDA\Backup on the ibaPDA-Server computer.

In a dialog window you can select and load the desired backup. Furthermore, you

can use the dialog to delete a backup.

Saves the current, full I/O conguraon in an XML-le. You can select or enter the

path and lename in the following dialog. The le extension .io is added automa-

cally.

Imporng an I/O conguraon, which is available in the form of a text le. The

I/O conguraons of an older ibaPDA system (< V6) as well as modules, groups or

proles that were exported from another ibaPDA system or congured using oth-

er tools, e.g., MS Excel, can also be imported. Signal addresses can be imported

as decimal or hexadecimal (prex “0x”) values. You cannot import a complete I/O

conguraon by using the import funcon.

Buon with drop-down list to export to a text le one out of the following:

■ the current I/O conguraon, i.e. all modules, groups and proles

■ all or selected modules

■ all groups

■ all InSpectra-proles

These buons are disabled, unless you can move selected modules within the

interface. Move the module by one posion up or down in the signal tree of the

interface.

This Buon is only enabled if a signal table is open. Pressing this Buon will copy

the open signal table to the Windows clipboard in order to paste it into another

signal table or e.g. Microso Excel/Word.

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Symbol Descripon

This Buon is only enabled if a signal table is open. Clicking this Buon will paste

the contents of the Windows clipboard, provided it is a compable table, created

in I/O Manager or e.g. Microso Excel/Word.

Go forward/backward buons: Navigate to the previous or following step in the

I/O Manager.

Tabs

Tabs Descripon

Inputs Here, you can congure data sources (interfaces), modules and signals.

Outputs Here, you can congure output signals, e-mails and SQL commands for interfaces

and modules, which support output of data.

Analycs Here, you'll nd internal interfaces and modules which are rather used for analyc

processing of the input and other signals. Included interfaces are:

■ Virtual

■ InCycle

■ InSpectra

Before introducing the Analycs tab, these interfaces were placed in the Inputs

tab. When updang from older ibaPDA versions to v8.4.0 or higher these interfac-

es will be moved automacally to the Analycs tab.

Groups Here, you can dene signal groups, assign signals to groups and dene muldi-

mensional signals (vectors).

General Here, you can carry out general sengs for interfaces and modules, such as ad-

dress books and cercate management, me synchronizaon setup or visibility of

interfaces.

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General sengs and informaon ibaPDA

4 Generalsengsandinformaon

This secon describes the informaon provided in the General tab.

4.1 Sengs

Generalsengs

Interrupt source

The interrupt source determines the enre ming of the data acquision in ibaPDA. From this

drop-down list, select one card which should act as the interrupt source on the PCI-/PCIe-bus.

The iba cards are ed with a very precise and stable mer chip. If iba cards are installed in the

computer they are listed in the drop-down list for the interrupt source. If cards of the ibaFOB-D

family are used they are preferred as interrupt source compared to older cards.

If no iba cards are used, the less stable Windows mer will be used instead.

Interrupt counter

The interrupt counter is incremenng with a rate of 1000 / sec when the drivers and ibaPDA

server are started and the applicaon me base is set to 1 ms.

Acquisionmebase

Enter the mebase here.

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The acquision mebase is the superior clock for the enre system and the fastest period for

sampling data in running acquision. Slower sampling can can be congured for the individual

modules by the module’s mebase seng.

Excluded are data which are acquired over ber opc connecons with ibaNet 32Mbit Flex pro-

tocol, data from ibaInSpectra modules and ibaInCycle modules as well as virtual modules. In

these cases mebases faster than the acquision mebase can be congured.

Faster sampling induces higher load and data volume. Therefore, it is always a reasonable ap-

proach to set the sampling on an appropriate level , i.e. as low as required for the intended ap-

plicaon .

The congured module mebases cannot be chosen arbitrarily and independently from each

other in order to ensure the good performance of the system even with high amounts of data.

An important quanty is the “driver period” which results from the module mebases. It is de-

termined by the least common mulple of all module mebases.

The longest driver period should not exceed 1000 ms. The rao of smallest module mebase

and driver period must be limited. Bad or inadmissible conguraons will be indicated during

the validaon on start of the acquision by warning or error messages.

You will nd an overview of all modules including their congured me bases in Module over-

view (see ì Module overview, page 40).

As the name implies, the acquision mebase refers only to data acquision (sampling) not

recording. The mebase for the data recording which is used to write the measured values into

the data le is congured in the data storage proles.

Startacquisiononstartupofserveraer...s

If you check this opon, the acquision will be started automacally aer a system restart of

the server (equivalent of the GO buon). You have to select this opon if you need a full au-

tomac startup sequence of the system, e.g. aer a power failure. A prerequisite is, of course,

that the ibaPDA server service starts automacally when the system is boong.

In the eld next to it, you can set a delay me in seconds. A delay of >0 may be useful if other

components, drivers or interfaces are involved, which are needed to correctly start the acquisi-

on and that need some me to be available (e.g. remote OPC server).

Forcereloadofdriveratnextstartoftheacquision

If you check this opon, the drivers will be reloaded and restarted with the next change of the

I/O conguraon. The selecon of this opon will not be retained. The opon will be disabled

automacally aer the driver has been loaded and started. You have to enable it again for the

next repeon.

Selecng this opon is recommended if ibaPDA does not experience any interrupts. The system

always checks the interrupts when the acquision starts. If no interrupts are detected, an error

message is shown.

Restartacquisiononnon-recoverableerror

If you check this opon, data acquision will be stopped automacally in the event of an

non-recoverable error.

The automac restart is the aempt to x the error. At the same me, faulty modules may

eventually be disabled. For most of the applicaons it is vital, that the data acquision with iba-

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PDA is running connuously. It is therefore more benecial to have a running data acquision,

even with reduced signal count, than a stopped data acquision..

Licenseinformaon

In the License informaon area you'll nd important informaon about your current soware

license.

License container

The license container number is important for all service queries and upgrades. Please provide

the license container number to our support team. It is linked to your license container, i.e. ei-

ther MARX dongle, WIBU dongle or WIBU so license and stored in our database.

Customer name

In this eld, you will nd the name of the customer for which this license has been approved.

For projects, which were inially completed via system integrators, registraon of the end user

should have been requested from iba either from the outset or, at the latest, aer the warranty

period has expired. This makes it easier to assign the license in the case of later extensions or

support cases.

Licensemelimit

This eld shows the validity me of the licenses. Depending on the container type there is ei-

ther a remaining validity me given in days or hours or there is an expiraon date.

Container type

This eld indicates whether a MARX dongle, a WIBU dongle (WIBU CmSck) or a WIBU so li-

cense (WIBU CmActLicense) is used.

Container host

This eld shows the name of the computer where the license container is aached, which sup-

plies the licenses obtained by the applicaon.

Required EUP date and EUP date

The EUP date species the date unl which the period of free soware updates is valid. Aer

the update period has expired you sll can connue running the program as usual but only with

the features which were already available unl then.

For more informaon, see Part 1, Update policy.

Licenses

This window displays all the available basic and addional licenses, such as clients, data storag-

es, interfaces, plug-ins etc.

If mulple licenses are applicable, e.g. clients, Xplorer interfaces, data storages etc., the number

of respecve licenses is given in brackets.

Acvesignals

A bar on the scale and the value behind the scale show the number of currently acve signals.

The end value of the scale indicates the maximum permissible number of signals according to

the license.

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TCP and UDP protocols

Disconnectconneconaer…secondswithoutacvity

Enabling of this opon will acvate a meout for TCP/IP connecons. If no messages are re-

ceived over the TCP/IP connecons within the specied me (to be entered in the entry eld

next to the checkbox), the corresponding connecon will be disconnected. Disconnecng un-

used connecons saves resources.

Setsignalvaluestozerowhenaconneconislost

Enabling this opon sets all measured signals of a connecon to zero if the connecon is inter-

rupted. Otherwise the signal values would show the value at the me of the connecon inter-

rupon.

WriteconneconeventsinWindowseventlog

Use this opon to enter selected events from communicaon eld in the Windows event log

so that they are visible in the Windows event display "System". This refers to Ethernet-based

interfaces which are incapable to generate their own log, e.g. because they are implemented in

the driver. Most of the Ethernet-based interfaces which are supported by ibaPDA generate their

own log les and write them to a dedicated subfolder in the server program path on the hard

disk. You’ll nd more informaon on this in the manuals of the interfaces.

AutomacallyopennecessaryportsinWindowsrewall

The installer of ibaPDA only adds the applicaon excepons for ibaPDA client, server and

S7-Xplorer proxy to the Windows rewall. Excepons for network protocols which are handled

by the ibaPDA driver can be added automacally or manually. If you enable this opon (default)

the required port excepons are added automacally. If you disable this opon then you can

manually add the port excepons to the rewall by clicking the buon <Allow ports through

rewall> on each interface that requires a listen port.

Interfacesforwhichpackagesmustbeconrmedimmediately...

For TCP-based interfaces that are to receive data faster than 200 ms, a so-called "fast acknowl-

edge” must occur. For this purpose, the parameter "TcpAckFrequency” must be changed in the

Windows registry. So that the user does not need to edit the registry, this opon can be used to

select the network adapter(s) for which a quick response is required. The changes in the registry

are then made automacally.

<Openlogle>buon

Via this buon, you open the log le of the ibaPDA server in the standard text editor of the

(Windows) system. All system-related events and processes from the perspecve of the server

acquire logged this log.

If you create a support le in the support case using the Save informaon for iba support... func-

on in the Help menu then this log le is included.

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4.2 Signal names

The creaon of signal names can be checked against four rules, which can be enabled or dis-

abled individually:

■ The signal name must be unique through the enre I/O conguraon

A signal name must not be created twice in the I/O conguraon.

■ Guarantee a minimum signal name length

The signal name must at least consist of the number of characters as specied.

■ Limit the maximum signal name length

The number of characters in the signal name must be equal or less than the specied num-

ber.

■ The signal name must comply with a regular expression

The signal name must only consist of characters, which are permied by the specied regular

expression. (Default: [0-9a-zA-Z_/()\\]*)

For each rule you can use the selecon buon on the right side to determine whether the rule

is disabled or whether it should generate a warning or an error in case of violaon.

You can enter any name into the eld Test signal name in order to check if the rules work prop-

erly. As long as the test signal name does not follow the rules, a red circle with a white cross ap-

pears on the right end of the eld.

The compliance with the enabled rules is already checked while you work in the I/O Manager.

As soon as a signal name does not comply with the rules a warning or error icon indicates this in

the signal table. The following examples refer to the sengs in the picture above.

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In case more than one rule has been broken, all reasons are menoned in the toolp on mouse-

over.

Furthermore, the compliance with the rules is checked during the validaon of the I/O cong-

uraon, e. g. at start of acquision. The corresponding warning or error messages will be dis-

played and in case of an error the I/O conguraon will be invalid.

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4.3 Address books

The Address books node is used to congure and manage address books, which are needed for

address book-based connecons to other systems, such as some Xplorer or SIMATIC interfaces.

The respecve address book tabs are only visible if appropriate interfaces and/or licenses are

acve on the ibaPDA system.

The basic structure is the same for all tabs.

In the upper part there are some sengs that depend on the connecon type as well as the

Buon for imporng, generang and deleng address books.

Below is a table lisng all of the address books available on the system, with reference to the

PLC, the creaon date and – if available – the project. The last column lists the modules that

have been congured for the specic CPU.

Address book tabs are available for the following systems:

Name Tab visible ...

ABB … with license ibaPDA-Interface-ABB-Xplorer

Bachmann M1 … with license ibaPDA-Interface-Bachmann-Xplorer, ibaPDA-Re-

quest-Bachmann-M1

DTBox … with license ibaPDA-Request-DTBox-xxxx

Hitachi MicroSigma … with license ibaPDA-Interface-Hitachi-MicroSigma

IEC61850 … with license ibaPDA-Interface-IEC61850-Client

OPC UA … with license ibaPDA-Interface-OPC-UA-Client

SIMATIC S7 … with licenses ibaPDA-Interface-S7-Xplorer, ibaPDA-Request-S7 or ibaP-

DA-Request-S7-UDP

... if an S7 module (all types) is included in the I/O conguraon.

SIMOTION … with license ibaPDA-Interface-SIMOTION-Xplorer

TwinCAT … with license ibaPDA-Interface-TwinCAT-Xplorer, ibaPDA-Request-Twin-

CAT

Table 1: Systems with address book support

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