S7-Xplorer

Description

The S7-Xplorer interface is suitable for acquiring measured data via TCP/IP using the standard network interface cards as well as using the PPI, MPI, PROFIBUS, TCP/IP and ISO transport logs via SIMATIC NET interface cards. Though for the controller, access is transparent. It is not necessary to configure or program the controller especially.

The signals to be measured can conveniently be selected with the aid of the absolute operand addresses or the symbolic names supported by the ibaPDA address-book browser. This enables the access to all defined symbols of the linked STEP 7 project.

When using the SIMATIC S7 CFC editor (version V 6.0) on the same computer, the signals and connectors to be measured can be configured from the control program using drag & drop.

With an additional interface converter (ACCON-S5-LAN^®, Deltalogic or IBH Link S5++, IBHsoftec) measurement data from a SIMATIC S5 control can also be acquired via its AS511 interface.

Up to 16 connections can be used per interface license. By purchasing up to 14 licenses, the number of connections can be increased up to 240.

Interface configuration

Set all values to zero when the connection to a PLC is lost.

If this option is enabled, all the measured values of an S7 CPU are set to zero as soon as the connection is lost.

Start acquisition even if a PLC is not accessible.

If this option is enabled, the acquisition will start even if an S7 CPU server is not accessible. A warning is issued in the validation dialog. If the system has been started without a connection to the S7 CPU, ibaPDA will try to connect to the CPU at regular intervals

Allow inaccessible symbols

Enable this option to start the acquisition even if no S7 operands are accessible. The inaccessible operands are indicated as alerts in the validation dialog instead of errors.

Enable S7-Xplorer outputs

Enable this option to enable the output modules. With the S7 Xplorer outputs, it is possible to write directly on S7 operands and S7 symbols.

This switches you to the dialog of the Address books node in the General tab of the I/O Manager. You can then import, create or delete address books.

For more information about address books, see Address books.

This opens a text file, in which all the connection-specific information is logged.

The error counters and response times in the connection table are reset to zero.

Connection table

For information about the connection table, see Connection table.

Note

When the use of the S7-Xplorer module is redundant, one row is displayed for each of the two connections. The one not active receives the "Standby" status and is displayed in red. This is not an error situation but the normal operating mode.

Available modules

S7-Xplorer
S7-Xplorer decoder
S7-Xplorer redundant
S7-Xplorer SINUMERIK
S5 (LAN-Adapter)
S7-200
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Product name

ibaPDA-Interface-S7-Xplorer (Art. no. 31.000001)