Chapter
5
Operating Instructions
Flexi Soft Gateways
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Ethernet gateways
Disabling the STATUS LED for PROFINET communication
With firmware
O
V2.00.0 the red/green flashing of the STATUS LED can be disabled in the
Flexi Soft Designer. Otherwise the LED will flash permanently if no PROFINET communica-
tion is established (e.g. if the gateway is used for TCP/IP communication only).
Click on the
Gateways
button above the main window and select the FX0-GPNT or
double click the FX0-GPNT in the hardware configuration view to open the gateway
configuration dialog.
Click on
Gateway configuration
on the left hand menu. On the right side of the window
you will find the following configuration panel:
Activate the checkbox. After downloading the configuration, the LED will light up
Green permanently, even if no PROFINET communication is established.
This feature is only available with firmware
O
V2.00.0 and Flexi Soft Designer version
O
1.4.0.
Power-up sequence
On power-up, the following LED test sequence is performed:
STATUS LED Off for 6 s
STATUS LED Red for 0.25 s
STATUS LED Green for 0.25 s
STATUS LED Off
5.4.2
Basic configuration — Assigning a device name and IP address
Configuration and diagnostic of the FX0-GPNT may be performed via the Flexi Soft De-
signer tool as well as with the PROFINET IO network programming tool (e.g. SIEMENS
SIMATIC).
Configuration via PROFINET IO
In the out-of-the-box configuration, each PROFINET IO field device, e.g. the FX0-GPNT has a
MAC address and a symbolic name stored.
The symbolic name for the gateway is
FX0-GPNT
.
This name is used by the I/O controller (i.e. PLC) to assign the IP address to the field
device.
If the IP address is also used for other Ethernet communications like TCP/IP or configu-
ration over Ethernet, remember that the PLC can change the IP address so these can be
interupted.
Fig. 40: Disabling the STATUS
LED of the FX0-GPNT
Note
Notes