You can perform "symbolic browsing" with “sniffer” modules for PROFIBUS configurations of S7-CPUs, which have been configured under Step 7 V5.x and contain the symbols of the PROFIBUS peripherals in the symbol table. This function cannot be used for TIA Portal projects.

An export file *.cfg of the hardware configuration from Step 7 has to be available when creating the address book.

  1. For generating such an export file, open the hardware configuration of your S7-CPU in Step 7.

  2. Under the menu item Station - Export..., you can generate an export of the configuration:



  3. Please select the following settings for Options and Format:



    Any path can be defined for the export file.

  4. Close the dialog with <Save> and switch over to ibaPDA.

  5. For creating the address book in ibaPDA, select the General tab of a sniffer module and click on the blue link "Browse S7 PROFIBUS symbols".



    The sniffer symbol browser is opened. Currently, no CPU and no DP system are available.



  6. To open the S7 address book generator, tap the <Create addressbooks> button.

  7. Add your Step 7 project by clicking on the <Add project> button and selecting the *.s7p file of your Step 7 project in the file browser. In the example below the Step 7 project is stored under the path D:\S7_Projects\S7_Symbo\ and the *.s7p-file is named S7_Symbo.s7p.

    The available S7-CPUs are displayed automatically.



  8. Enter now the path to the exported hardware configuration file in the field "Step 7 HW Config export".

    In the CPU Name, you can enter a meaningful name for the CPU. The default setting is the original name which is used in the Step 7 project.



  9. Then, click on the button <Create addressbooks>.

    Now, an addressbook including the PROFIBUS symbols is generated.

  10. Now, you can choose a CPU and a DP system in the sniffer symbol browser.



    On the left-hand side, the PROFIBUS slaves available in the DP system are displayed. On the right-hand side, you see the structure of the marked slaves with the individual I/O signals. If ibaBM-DP is connected, you see a preview of the current value in the Value column.

  11. To use the signal comment from the Step7 symbol table as the signal name in the "Sniffer" module, activate the Use comment as signal name option.

  12. To hide slaves for which no symbols have been defined in Step7, activate the option Hide slaves without symbols to hide slaves.

  13. If you want to add signals for recording to the sniffer module, mark the signals on the right and click on <Add>.

    Now the marked signals are inserted with the correct data for slave, I/O, address and data type in the sniffer module.