Chapter
7
Operating Instructions
Flexi Soft Gateways
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Layout and content of the
process image
7.4
Monitoring the operational data online
When the Flexi Soft system is online and running, you can monitor the operational data
online in the gateway configuration window.
Click on the
Gateways
button above the main window and select the respective gate-
way or double click the desired gateway in the hardware configuration view to open the
gateway configuration dialog.
Click on the
Flexi Soft to Network
or the
Network to Flexi Soft
tab on the left hand
menu to display the routing view for the input or output data you want to monitor.
For both directions,
Flexi Soft to Network
as well as
Network to Flexi Soft
, inactive bits
are displayed grey while active bits are highlighted green:
In the
Flexi Soft to Network
view, bits that are inactive due to an error are displayed red.
This could be the case e.g. for the outputs of an FX3
R
XTIO module if the power supply of
this module is faulty:
In the
Network to Flexi Soft
view, bits that have no tag name assigned (so that they can
not be used in the logic editor) but which are included in the process image that the Flexi
Soft gateway receives from the PLC, are highlighted yellow:
The Flexi Soft gateways always reflect the actual physical status of the inputs and outputs
on the connected modules and devices. This means that even when Force mode is active
and inputs that are physically
Low
are forced
High
(or vice versa) the actual physical
status of these inputs will be transmitted to the PLC instead of the (virtual) forced status.
If, however, as a result of forcing of one or several inputs, one or several outputs change
their status, the changed status of these outputs will be transmitted to the PLC since the
actual physical status of the outputs on the devices has changed.
Fig. 88: Active and inactive
bits in the online process
image
Fig. 89: Inactive Network
input bits as a result of an
error.
Fig. 90: Network output bits
with no tag names assigned
in the online process image
Note