Operating the device
5.5 Monitoring of the device
SIMATIC IPC647E
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Operating Instructions, 11/2018, A5E45589180-AA
Monitoring
Description
Status displays and actions
Voltage monitoring
•
Monitoring the charge status of the backup battery
(CMOS)
•
When the first warning threshold is reached, the
backup battery will run for at least one more month.
•
The redundant power supply monitors whether both
current inputs are active and the power supply fans
are in operation.
•
An alarm is generated in the event
of a critical or faulty state.
•
Acoustic alarm for redundant power
supply
Drive monitoring
•
Determination of the status of the drives (HDD and
SSD) with SMART functionality, also in RAID sys-
tems (RAID status)
•
The status of an inactive hot swap drive is not dis-
played.
•
Status display "HDDx ALARM
(Page 24)"
•
SMART status of the hard disks
•
For example, the following states
are displayed in a RAID group:
"Normal", "OK", "Degraded", error
"Rebuild", rebuilding
Software for device monitoring
You can find information on the monitoring software and its documentation under:
●
SIMATIC IPC DiagBase (Page 81) for monitoring and alarming locally on the device
●
SIMATIC IPC DiagMonitor (Page 81) for monitoring and alarming via network
SIMATIC DiagBase or SIMATIC DiagMonitor also control the status displays of the IPC, see:
System status displays (Page 24).