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Chapter
5
Operating Instructions
Flexi Soft Gateways
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Ethernet gateways
Method 2: Polling mode — PLC requests the data from/PLC writes the data to the
FX0
N
GENT
In this operating mode the FX0
R
GENT operates as
slave
. It sends the data to the PLC upon
request and the PLC writes the data to the gateway. If this operating mode is desired:
Open the Flexi Soft Designer and load the hardware configuration including the
EtherNet/IP gateway.
Click on the
Gateways
button above the main window and select the FX0-GENT or
double click the FX0-GENT in the hardware configuration view to open the gateway
configuration dialog.
Click on
Gateway configuration
on the left hand menu. The following dialog appears:
Within the
Gateway configuration
dialog, select the transfer method by activating
PLC
requests
for the Flexi Soft to Network direction,
PLC writes
for the Network to Flexi Soft
direction.
Select which data shall be requested or written by the PLC by checking the checkboxes
for the required data sets.
Click
Connect
to go online and download the configuration to the Flexi Soft system.
Program the explicit messaging in the PLC.
Polling data sets via explicit messaging
The FX0-GENT supports two vendor specific objects which can be polled via explicit mes-
saging:
The
Full Data Set Transfer
object allows to poll for each of the data sets. There is one
instance where each attribute represents a data set.
Fig. 30: EtherNet/IP gateway
configuration as slave