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Attach policies to certificate

Next you’ll see the policy you created previously, select the policy and

click “Create thing” a pop up will

appear to “Download certificates and keys”.

Download the certificate and the private key. Once downloaded, navigate back to this user guide section

“how to FTP files into the RTA gateway” to load the certificate and private key into the gateway.

Summary of Contents for 460ETCQT-N2E

Page 1: ...Real Time Automation Inc 1 1 800 249 1612 Firmware Version 8 8 10 460ETCQT N2E Protocol Gateway Product User Guide...

Page 2: ...ion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages therefore the limitations set forth in this agreement may not apply to you No patent liability is assumed by Real Time Automation with respect...

Page 3: ...guration 18 Allen Bradley PLC Configuration 21 External PLC Configuration 22 External PLC Configuration Auto Configure 23 Auto Configure Group by Device vs Auto Configure Group by Data Type 24 Group b...

Page 4: ...ateway Subscribe Topic 55 Mapping Transferring Data Between Devices 57 Display Mapping and Values 58 Display Data 58 Display String 61 Display String use case 63 Data and String Mapping Auto Configure...

Page 5: ...ostics Mapping 85 Diagnostics Allen Bradley PLC 86 Diagnostic MQTT Client 89 LED Configuration 91 Configuration Files 92 Export Configuration 92 Import Configuration 92 Save and Replace Configuration...

Page 6: ...tware 2 TCP BMS BM now Available on N2E and N2EW hardware Platform 3 New ASCII Mode Available on TCP A USB WI protocols 4 User Guides updated with more examples Bug Fixes 1 Improved Data Mapping and S...

Page 7: ...y Number of ASCII devices is dependent on the Hardware and Product number of the 460 gateway For further customization and advanced use please reference the appendices located on the CD or online at h...

Page 8: ...h as LEDs For these sections be sure to identify the hardware platform you are using To find which hardware platform you are using 1 Look on the front or back label of the unit for the part number 2 O...

Page 9: ...er the gateway 1 2 1 Connect a 12 24 VDC power source to the gateway Red Wire Black Wire a The unit draws 8 VDC 900mA 7 2W Max b The unit draws 35 VDC 900mA 31 5W Max c The gateway has a voltage opera...

Page 10: ...max Supervised The unit is certified to be operated at 40 C to 50 C Instructions d alimentation et d installation pour environnement dangereux Cet quipement est con u pour tre utilis uniquement dans d...

Page 11: ...port specific parameters These settings must match the settings of the device s that you are connecting to Only 1 mode can be configured for this hardware Below are the wiring pinouts for each mode Wh...

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Page 13: ...e under the DIN Rail 3 While pressing the 460ETCQT N2E against the rail press up to engage the spring loaded lower clip and rotate the unit parallel to the DIN Rail 4 Release upward pressure Removing...

Page 14: ...ogram from the CD ROM 3 Find unit under Select a Unit a Change Gateway s IP address to match that of your PC if DHCP has failed i You will know DHCP has failed if the gateway s IP address is AutoIP at...

Page 15: ...fault Gateway 2 The gateway must be on the same Network Subnet as the PC whether it s setup for DHCP or Static Once you have both devices on the same network you should be able to ping the gateway usi...

Page 16: ...rted after every change Multiple changes can be made before a restart but they will not be committed until the gateway is restarted When all desired changes have been made press the Restart Now button...

Page 17: ...led Configuration cannot be changed during Running Mode If changes are needed click the Configuration Mode button shown in the green box below Configuring Mode Protocol communication is stopped and no...

Page 18: ...e Save Parameters button Network Configuration The network configuration area is where you assign the IP address and other network parameters Changes can only be made when the gateway is in Configurat...

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Page 20: ...col communication 3 One Ethernet based protocol on the IP Network layer 2 switch a Ethernet Port 1 used for direct protocol communication b Ethernet Port 2 available for daisy chaining devices togethe...

Page 21: ...ernet port only 1 Delay Between Messages Enter the length of time to delay between read and write scan line requests ms 2 Response Timeout Enter the amount of time the gateway should wait before a tim...

Page 22: ...l Mode will be discarded 1 To add additional PLCs click the Select dropdown under Allen Bradley PLC Device List and select Add Generic PLC option a To remove a device navigate to the server to delete...

Page 23: ...y 32 bit 7 Any String Data Types will be mapped as String If the PLC is a MicroLogix SLC or PLC5E the data will be configured according to the following rules 1 Any 8 Bit Signed Unsigned and 16 Bit Si...

Page 24: ...he other protocol on the gateway and auto configures the data groups on the Allen Bradley PLC for all the data points within the other protocol Another way to view this option is to say that the data...

Page 25: ...r you want to modify the scan line s that already exist 4 To delete the scan lines that are already there and start over press Cancel 5 To add additional PLCs click the Select dropdown under Allen Bra...

Page 26: ...ly maintain a connection when there is data needed to be transferred then Unconnected UCMM will work best if you are only writing to the PLC Connected Class 3 Explicit messaging relies on reserved res...

Page 27: ...e and close the connection until a Change of State Leaving it at Connected messaging once we receive data the RTA gateway will constantly be writing to the PLC to maintain that connection a If you wis...

Page 28: ...to the gateway See the Scan Line Data Limit section at the bottom of the page for the given max values a If using a CompactLogix or ControlLogix below are the scan line data limits b If using a Contr...

Page 29: ...Real Time Automation Inc 29 1 800 249 1612 d If using a SLC 5 05 or PLC5E below are the scan line limits 5 Click the Save Parameters button 6 Repeat for the other direction if needed...

Page 30: ...additional syntax If you are using a tag that is defined within Program Scope then the tag name inside of the RTA gateway needs additional syntax for it to successfully communicate Example AnotherTag...

Page 31: ...ore setting the Handshake value equal to Trigger value How does this work 1 Read ETC Optimized Trigger tag until Change of State a Value 0 Enabled but Not valid value b Value 65535 Disabled 2 Map the...

Page 32: ...date the RTA_Opt_Trigger PLC tag to 1 7 Now your ASCII device will be updated with the data 8 Increment the RTA_Opt_Trigger PLC tag 9 Your ASCII device will get update again regardless if data is new...

Page 33: ...s the PLC with the Handshake from the RTAgateway Handshake tag can be unique to your PLC program 3 Within the ETC configuration setup a PLC tag that you can identify as your Optimization Trigger Optim...

Page 34: ...34 1 800 249 1612 12 Increment the RTA_Opt_Trigger PLC tag again 13 Now your ASCII device will be updated with the new data 14 In a working application the Handshake tag in your PLC should match the...

Page 35: ...add an MQTT device or additional MQTT devices click the Select dropdown menu under MQTT Client Connection List and select Add Generic MQTT Connection option a To remove a device navigate to the MQTT...

Page 36: ...s your RTA gateway will publish the message as RTA GW RM101 Lights 9 Username and Password Enter if authentication to the MQTT broker is necessary Configuring Subscribe and Publish Topics 10 Enter in...

Page 37: ...in the URL path for the AWS MQTT broker a AWS IoT console will provide you a device shadow URL such as https aabb11224e9ex ats iot us east 2 amazonaws com things RTA_Testing shadow name RTA_Ninja b Wi...

Page 38: ...d into the RTA gateway s Flash File System How to FTP files into the RTA gateway 1 Save off the private key and certificate files to your desktop keep these files in a secured location 2 Within your...

Page 39: ...Real Time Automation Inc 39 1 800 249 1612 b Paste the certificate and private key into this ftp session close out the session by exiting out...

Page 40: ...2 5 Navigate to the RTA gateway and on the left hand side click the OTHER Select dropdown and select Utilities 6 Once on the Utilities page click the File List button 7 Verify that your certification...

Page 41: ...olicies Before you can register your RTA gateway as a thing we need to setup a policy for it This policy will be assigned to our thing during the registration process and will grant it the permissions...

Page 42: ...sk When finished you should have the following statements Action Resource ARN iot Connect arn aws iot your region your account client iot Publish arn aws iot your region your account topic iot Receive...

Page 43: ...on and then the Things submenu This will take us to a window that allows you to register a single thing or multiple things Click on the button labeled Create things A new window will open with a numbe...

Page 44: ...thing properties here you will give your Thing a unique name and click the Next button at the bottom Certificate setup Here you associate your Thing with the certificate that will be used to authentic...

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Page 46: ...ated previously select the policy and click Create thing a pop up will appear to Download certificates and keys Download the certificate and the private key Once downloaded navigate back to this user...

Page 47: ...ccessfully downloaded the files you will be redirected to the Things page Within the Things page click on the thing name you setup in this example it would be RTA_Testing From this page you can view i...

Page 48: ...nd click Create Shadow Enter in a Device Shadow name and click the Create button You will be redirected to the Things page where you ll see your new Device Shadow created Click the Device Shadow name...

Page 49: ...Real Time Automation Inc 49 1 800 249 1612 Within the RTA gateway configuration Device Shadow URL enter in aabb11224e9ex ats iot us east 2 amazonaws com everything else is ignored...

Page 50: ...private key and Device Shadow URL have already been configured in AWS the two files have been FTP d into the RTA gateway and the Device Shadow URL is configured Using the AWS MQTT test client you can...

Page 51: ...e RTA gateway Subscribe Topics configuration In the Message payload after the enter in your value if using a string be sure your data is in For example message 1234 or message Hello World Once you hav...

Page 52: ...Real Time Automation Inc 52 1 800 249 1612 Send data from RTA gateway to AWS Publish Topics This example shows a PLC writing data to the RTA gateway and presenting that data to the Publish topic...

Page 53: ...all topics and click the Subscribe button You ll see the subscription once the new Publish data comes in The RTA is the Client ID that is configured in the MQTT device configuration of the RTA The Da...

Page 54: ...https mqtt explorer com which can be downloaded for free This tool can monitor MQTT client broker relationships Once you launch the MQTT Explorer tool setup a new connection The host will be IP of you...

Page 55: ...g that data to the MQTT publish topic Write a value in my PLC and MQTT Explorer will subscribe to that topic Send data from MQTT Explorer to RTA gateway Subscribe Topic The RTA gateway has a topic nam...

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Page 57: ...eway will automatically take the string data type from one protocol and map it into the other See String Auto Configure section for more details Option 3 Manual Configure Mappings If you don t want to...

Page 58: ...isplay Data button to view how the data is mapped and what the values of each mapping are Here you will see how each data point excluding strings is mapped To view select the device from the dropdown...

Page 59: ...3 on BACnet NOTE If a data point is mapped twice only the first instance of it will show here EX If Modbus 400001 400040 from Slave 1 are both mapped to AI1 only 400001 will show as being mapped to AI...

Page 60: ...iew the actual data mappings click the Edit Mapping button For more details see the Data Mapping Explanation section To view the data mappings purely as text click the View as Text button For more det...

Page 61: ...ps from a string click the dropdown menu to generate the information regarding that device The string data will be displayed in both Hex and ASCII only the ASCII data is sent The example below shows d...

Page 62: ...Info drop down and navigating to ASCII Diagnostics page You will also have to select the port you want to view in the dropdown below ASCII To view the string mappings click the Edit Mapping button Fo...

Page 63: ...on would look like my example below There are more detailed examples of what all the fields represent in the ASCII Parsing section The message is broken up into 3 Groups or Parsing fields To view the...

Page 64: ...ata type If the Auto Configure function does not map the data as you want or you want to add modify the mappings you may do so by going into Manual Configure mode The following are examples of the Aut...

Page 65: ...then only 1 operation is allowed c Select the Operation s to perform i Math Operations are performed in the order they are selected ii If more than one point is selected on the source the Math Operat...

Page 66: ...ase In this example Ram0 is scaled into Ram1 Ram1 is then increased by 5 and stored into Ram2 Ram0 and Ram2 could be considered a source or destination group 2 Temporary Ram Double a This is like the...

Page 67: ...ys to map the NetBmpStat Option 1 Map the whole 32bit value to a destination Example below shows the NetBmpStat is going to an Analog BACnet object Using a connection of 5 Modbus Slave devices AI1 wil...

Page 68: ...ult 0x80 7 128 nonrecoverable fault For this example the ETC Status is mapped to a PLC tag called PLC_Status Example ETC Status is 0x00000013 19 decimal here is the break down Hex Bit Decimal Explanat...

Page 69: ...e fault config err 0x10 28 268 435 456 Configuration Mode 0x20 29 536 870 912 No Ethernet Cable Plugged In For this example the MC Status is mapped to a PLC tag called MC_Status Example MC Status is 0...

Page 70: ...string 1 Enable red box above Check to enable mapping If not checked this mapping is skipped 2 Source Field yellow box above a Group Select the string data group you set up in the protocol config to...

Page 71: ...ual Configure Mode or click Cancel to remain in Auto Configure Mappings Mode Once OK is clicked there are 2 options on how to proceed from here 1 To keep the mappings that are already configured press...

Page 72: ...op of the Mapping Configuration page and select Auto Configure Mappings Click OK to proceed to delete all current mappings and go back to Auto Configure Mappings Mode Click Cancel to keep all mappings...

Page 73: ...at register 1 and want to see if 400011 is mapped If it is not in this text box then it is not mapped and no data will be transferred This is the text display for the example shown under the Data Mapp...

Page 74: ...ake value is set equal to Trigger value 5 Map Handshake to reference data point Note is an internal reference to the Server Slave number you are settings up ex RTA Server Slave products can only be Tr...

Page 75: ...ppings 4 The first mapping is going to be the Data Validation Triggering AO21 will write to the RTA MC Trigger 1 will mark data invalid 5 The second mapping the MC Handshake will increment that all da...

Page 76: ...ax of 32 characters case sensitive a Re enter the Password 4 E mail In case the password was forgotten a user can have their password e mailed to them if e mail was configured 5 Hint A helpful reminde...

Page 77: ...can have a separate security level associated with it for each user Security Levels 1 Full Access Capability to view and configure a web page 2 View Access Capability to view a web page but cannot co...

Page 78: ...word This is used to reset security settings Confirm reset password must be selected to confirm this action Once confirmed there is a 15 minute window to do a hard reset of the gateway by physically r...

Page 79: ...use 2 SMTP Mail Password If authentication is required enter the SMTP Server s password Optional 3 SMTP Server Enter the Name of the SMTP Server or the IP Address of the Server 4 From E mail Enter th...

Page 80: ...ction a Top dropdown select the Data Group This dropdown menu will contain all groups that go from the gateway to the network b Lower dropdown select the Data Point s Specific Point This is used to se...

Page 81: ...he Clear Error Value Ex Ticks Since Powerup 5000 This will clear the alarm after 5000 ticks have elapsed since the unit powered up 6 Enter an Alarm Name This will make the alarm unique and will be ava...

Page 82: ...either OK or ALARM 8 of Times Active This count represents the number of times this alarm has become active If an alarm is triggered this count will increment Alarms Active While one or more alarms a...

Page 83: ...occur 1 A one time notification will be sent to the email associated with the alarm a For duplicate emails to occur the alarm must become active and then be cleared again 2 Total Alarms Active will d...

Page 84: ...his is to be used to prevent jitter Default value is 0ms This timer takes priority over the Stale Data Timer There is a separate timer per data mapping This timer is active only after the first write...

Page 85: ...larm that was active Common Errors 1 Destination or Source Point does not exist a Solution Re map the mapping 2 Source or Destination Pointer too small a There is not enough space on either the Source...

Page 86: ...lear All Values This will only affect displayed values 1 This will reset all displayed values back to zero and clear the Status Strings Example If viewing Allen Bradley PLC ETC01 10 1 100 18 this will...

Page 87: ...ng connection can be determined from the Network Bitmap Status value 4 Communication not attempted yet Flashing Red Specific Server Only No reads are configured and data needed for writes isn t valid...

Page 88: ...C to the gateway Common Error Strings These are the values for All PLCs or the specific PLC selected 1 IP xxx xxx xxx xxx tagname 04 Path Segment Error The tag name is wrong or the tag is not defined...

Page 89: ...t the Variables values This will return all values displayed to zero Example If viewing QT02 192 168 0 101 this will only clear the values for that specific device Device Status This will only display...

Page 90: ...devices are enabled One or more of the MQTT devices have a conflicted IP address Off No Power No Ethernet cable connected Variables These are the values for all servers or the specific server selecte...

Page 91: ...col is a master client you may set the LED to represent either all slaves servers configured in the gateway or a slave server device To select a slave server device 1 Select the protocol in the left d...

Page 92: ...her device into the 460 gateway whenever it is in Configuration Mode Upon clicking the Choose File button you will be prompted to select a location from which to load the saved file Once the location...

Page 93: ...tered an error while trying to load the saved configuration the gateway will indicate the first error it found and a brief description about it under the Load Configuration button Contact RTA Support...

Page 94: ...y you wish to copy the configuration from 2 Power up the gateway you wish to copy the configuration to DO NOT INSERT SD CARD YET 3 Navigate to the webpage inside the unit 4 Navigate to the dropdown Ot...

Page 95: ...rdware 1 On the front of the gateway below the Power LED there is a small pinhole Using a paperclip press the button through this pinhole and hold the button for at least 5 seconds 2 After 5 seconds t...

Page 96: ...tored in the Flash File System within the gateway Identify your device by clicking the Start Flashing LEDs button By clicking this button the two diagnostic LEDs will flash red and green Once you have...

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