MVI56E-FLN ♦ ControlLogix Platform
Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
FA Control Network Ethernet Communication Module
User Manual
ProSoft Technology, Inc.
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Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
In This Chapter
Reading Status Data from the Module .................................................. 75
Diagnostics Menu Items ........................................................................ 78
LED Status Indicators ............................................................................ 81
Clearing a Fault Condition ..................................................................... 84
Troubleshooting ..................................................................................... 85
The module provides information on diagnostics and troubleshooting in the
following forms:
LED status indicators on the front of the module provide information on the
module’s status.
Status data contained in the module can be viewed in
ProSoft Configuration
Builder
through the Ethernet port.
Status data values are transferred from the module to the processor.
3.1
Reading Status Data from the Module
The MVI56E-FLN module returns a block of status data in the input image that
can be used to determine the module’s operating status. This data is transferred
from the module to the ControlLogix processor continuously. You can view this
data in the
FLN.STATUS
controller tag in the ladder logic.
If the
Error/Status Pointer
is enabled, the status data can also be found in the
Read Data area of the module’s database at a location specified by the
Error/Status Pointer
configuration parameter.
The Configuration/Debug port provides the following functionality:
Full view of the module’s configuration data
View of the module’s status data
Version Information
Control over the module (warm boot, cold boot, transfer configuration)
Facility to upload and download t
he module’s configuration file
