Sices D-PRO, Technical Manual

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24 D-PRO Protection relay Technical Manual
4.7.4
On some versions of the controller, there is a RJ45 port for the data connection via Ethernet. For
further details on the Ethernet connection and on the related protocol, refer to document [7].
It’s possible to connect the device to a LAN or directly to a PC (point-to-point connection). The
connection allows the use of SW SicesSupervisor for the supervision and BoardPrg3 for the
configuration, as well as all the features available through the Modbus TCP/IP protocol.
The connection of the device to a LAN network also allows to keep the internal calendar up-to-
date, thanks to the UTC time and to the data and event sending towards the SI.MO.NE server,
besides having the possibility to assign a public IP address (static or dynamic) directly to the
device.
Parameters for the configuration:
Parameter Name Default
P.0500 IP Address 192.168.0.1
P.0501 Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
P.0502 Network Gateway 0.0.0.0
P.0503 Modbus Port.
Select the port to use for the Modbus TCP
communication. 502
P.0504 Web Server Port (Currently not supported).
Select the port to use for the management of the
TCP/IP data for the Web Server service.
80
P.0505 MODBUS registers order
When 32bit information are required, it decides
whether to send first the most or the less important
16bit. 0-LSWF
P.0508 NTP Server Port 123
P.0509 NTP Server IP address 0.0.0.0
P.0510 DNS primary server IP address 0.0.0.0
P.0511 DNS secondary server IP address 0.0.0.0
P.0513 DHCP Server Port 67
P.0514 DHCP Server IP address 0.0.0.0
In order to the device to a LAN network, it is necessary to configure at least the parameters
P.0500, P.0501 and P.0502. It is possible to proceed in two ways:

It is possible to configure the three parameters above manually, with values suitable to
the network connected (the sub-net mask and the router/gateway address are
characteristic of each network, the IP address must be univocal). In order to go ahead,
it is necessary to set the parameter P.0514 to 0.0.0.0 or the parameter P.0513 to zero.

It is possible to acquire the values for the three parameters above dynamically by the
network. To do so, the controller needs to be connected to a DHCP server
(
Dynamic
Host Configuration Protocol).
In order to go ahead, it is necessary to set the parameter
P.0514 to 255.255.255.255 or the parameter P.0513 to 67 (67 is the standard TCP port
for the DHCP server; if your server uses a different port, set it in P.0513).
Once the controller has values valid for the parameters P.0500, P.0501 and P.0502, it can be
connected by Modbus-TCP protocol on the IP address configured and on the port configured
with P.0503, for example with the supervision software (SicesSupervisor) and with the
configuration software (BoardPrg3).