In the General tab, you can make basic settings and settings for the connection to the device.
Basic
Module Type (information only)
Indicates the type of the current module.
Locked
A module can be locked to avoid unintentional or unauthorized changing of the module settings.
Enabled
Enable the module to record signals.
Name
You can enter a name for the module here.
Comment
Extra description about the module. This will be displayed as tooltip in the signal tree.
Advanced
Watchdog
You can enable watchdog for attached modules.
If an error occurs on the I/O bus that would prevent data acquisition from continuing, this watchdog triggers immediately. This means that data acquisition is stopped and the modules are restarted. The acquisition of other modules continues in the meantime. If the error could be reset by restarting the I/O modules, data acquisition with the I/O modules will continue.
Only one attempt is made to reset the I/O bus. If the error persists after this, the system remains in error mode.
Configuration
Lock
This property determines if the configuration should be locked in the ibaNet-E device. When the configuration is locked, only the owner that sets the lock can change the configuration or remove the lock.
Connection
Auto enable/disable
When this option is enabled and ibaPDA cannot connect to this device during the start of the acquisition then it will disable this module and start the acquisition without it. During the acquisition it will try to reconnect to the device. When it succeeds it will automatically restart the acquisition with this module enabled.
If this option is not enabled then ibaPDA will not start the acquisition when it cannot connect to the device.
Data path
Select the transport protocol you want to use for data transfer between ibaPDA and the ibaNet-E device. The following are available:
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MAC: Based on layer 2 of OSI model the communication runs without an IP address. It is used in pure ibaNet-E networks or non-routed networks. The data path MAC offers higher bandwidth with highly synchronous data.
Enter the MAC address of the device in the field MAC address and select the appropriate network interface.
Only with data path MAC, an ibaNet-E acquisition with High Performance (HP) is possible.
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IPv4: Based on layer 4 of OSI model IP addresses are needed for UDP/IP communication. It must be used in routed networks.
Enter the IP address of the device in the field IP address.
MAC address, Network interface
These fields appear when the data path MAC is selected.
IP Address
The field appears when the data path IPv4 is selected.
More functions
Read configuration from MCOM
Reads the most recently saved ibaPDA configuration from the device and adds it to the ibaPDA configuration. The ibaPDA module numbers cannot be read out. Therefore, new module numbers are created or free module numbers are assigned.
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The Read configuration from MCOM command does not compare the actual hardware configuration with the ibaPDA configuration last saved on the ibaM-COM device. It is therefore possible that the hardware configuration does not match the last ibaPDA configuration. In this case, an error message will appear when the configuration is validated. The Autodetect command detects all modules with the default settings and adds them to the ibaPDA configuration. Modules already present in the ibaPDA configuration retain their settings. The Autodetect command can be found in the context menu when you select the ibaM-COM module in the module tree. |
Modified settings are applied by clicking on <OK> or <Apply>.