Diagnostics
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a connected Ethernet cable). The LED will flash every time traffic was detected.
This module has two Ethernet ports A and B. Each LEDs represents each specific port.
Act
The Act LED shows the routing activity for the module. Every time there is a message
being exchanged with either the ControlNet or Ethernet network, the LED will flash
green. If there was any mapping or exchange issue, the LED will flash red.
cA / cB
The status of the ControlNet link. See the appendix for details on the ControlNet LED
status.
Table 7.1 - Module LED operation
7.2.
MODULE STATUS MONITORING IN SLATE
The ControlNet Router provides various statistics which can assist with module operation,
maintenance, and fault finding. The statistics can be accessed in full by Slate or using the web
server in the module.
To view the module’s status in the Aparian
-Slate environment, the module must be online. If
the module is not already Online (following a recent configuration download), then right-click
on the module and select the
Go Online
option.
Figure 7.2 - Selecting to Go Online
The Online mode is indicated by the green circle behind the module in the Project Explorer
tree.