In the Connection tab, the corresponding connection of the device module is configured for the IEC 61850 device.

Station bus MMS

Address

The IP address of the IEC 61850 device is to be entered here to establish the connection.

Timeout

You can set the value for the timeout here in seconds for the connection establishment and read accesses. When the timeout is exceeded, the device is considered as inaccessible or unresponsive.

Button <Test connection>

With the set connection parameters, it is attempted to establish the connection to the IEC 61850 device. If successful, information about the device is shown, such as detected logical devices, nodes, data sets and control blocks.

Address book

Selection of the linked address book. If address books have already been created, they are offered for selection here. ibaPDA can also create address books.

<Create address book>

This button can be used to create an address book offline. The button opens the file browser and the SCL file can be selected, with which ibaPDA creates an address book.

When you click on the <Test connection> button, ibaPDA connects to the IEC 61850 device and loads the address book from the device itself. The name of the address book is then the IP address and port number of the device.

Address books are managed in I/O Manager, on the General tab, in the Address books node. See chapter Address books.

Advanced settings

The advanced settings can be shown in order to configure additional parameters.

  • Port Number of the port used on the server side

  • Password If access to the IEC server is password-protected, enter the password here.

  • Maximum number of objects to read in a single command If neither a data set nor a report control block is used for an MMS module, ibaPDA reads the configured signals with individual commands. Ensure here how many objects should be read in a command, since several signals are combined in an MMS message if this is possible. If the value is set to 1, a separate MMS message is in fact sent to the server for each value.
Process bus GOOSE

GOOSE network

Network card to be used to receive GOOSE messages. Only relevant when using GOOSE telegrams.

Read GOOSE configuration from device via MMS

This option is enabled by default.

However, it is also possible that GOOSE messages are received without MMS communication to the IEC 61850 device.

This means that the ibaPDA server does not necessarily have to be located in the network of IEC 61850 devices, as long as the GOOSE messages are forwarded to the network where the ibaPDA server is located.

To make sure that the ibaPDA server does not support MMS communication anymore, disable the option Read GOOSE configuration from device via MMS.

In this case, you must configure additional properties in the GOOSE module, such as the application ID and a source and/or destination MAC address. See chapter GOOSE module.
Process bus SV (61850-9-2)

Network card to be used to receive the IEC 61850-9-2 streams (Sampled Values).