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User Manual
MN032006EN
Effective December 2017
415U Condor-long-range
wireless I/O and gateway
EATON
www.eaton.com
DNP3 protocol configuration
The DNP3 protocol is widely used in many industries to provide
monitoring and control of remote plants and equipment. You can
enable support for DNP3 in 415U-2 version 2.1 modules with the
purchase of a feature license key (see “Feature license keys” on
page 61
). This chapter describes how to use the MConfig utility to
configure DNP3 settings once you have enabled the DNP3 feature in
the 415U-2.
Address configuration
The following are the factory default DNP3 settings for the 415U-2.
You may find that you can use these default settings for simple
applications without further configuration.
•
Device IP Address
—192.168.0.1xx (xx is the last two digits of the
serial number).
•
Master IP Address
—Any (the device accepts connections from
any IP address)
•
Connection Mode
—TCP Listen (the master initiates the
connection)
•
DNP3 TCP Port
— 20000
•
Device DNP3 Addr
—4 (outstation)
•
Master DNP3 Addr
—3
For most systems, you will only need to enable the DNP3 outstation
function and set the outstation DNP3 address and connection type.
To access DNP3 configuration, click
DNP3
in the MConfig project
tree to display the screen in
Figure 67
.
Figure 67. DNP3 address configuration
DNP3 Enabled
Select this checkbox to enable the DNP3 function. Clear the checkbox to disable DNP3.
Connection Type
Sets the connection type to match your DNP3 master connection:
UDP
—Uses UDP Protocol to communicate with the master.
TCP Listen
—(Default) This option uses TCP protocol to communicate with the master. The device waits for a
connection from the master.
TCP Dual
—Uses TCP protocol to communicate with the master. If the device loses connection it attempts to
connect to the master at the configured IP address.
Outstation DNP3 Address
Sets DNP3 address of this 415U-2 device. Set this address to match the address configured in the DNP3.
Valid values are 1–65531.
Keep Alive
Sets the keep alive time. The outstation (this device) sends a check transmission to the DNP3 master if there
is no communication from the master within the keep alive time. To avoid unnecessary check transmissions,
set the keep alive time to a longer period than the master poll time.
Note
: If you are using a TCP connection, this parameter controls how long the outstation waits before
it resets its TCP connection after the link is lost. If the master station drops its TCP connection through lost
communications it cannot reconnect to the device until this timeout is completed. Setting the keep alive to
a short time reduces the time to re-establish a connection. However, it also increases the number of check
transmissions from outstations. For large networks with limited bandwidth, we recommend using the UDP
connection type with a keep alive time that is longer than the master poll time.
Master DNP3 Address
Sets the DNP3 address of the master station that will control the 415U-2 device.