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Klinkmann Automation OMRONETH Communication Server
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Table Of Contents
Overview ........................................................................................................................ 1
Communication Protocols .............................................................................................. 2
Accessing Remote Items via the Server......................................................................... 3
Installing the OMRONETH Server.................................................................................. 4
Installing the Server .................................................................................................... 4
Installing the I/O Server Infrastructure ........................................................................ 5
Before starting the OMRONETH Server......................................................................... 6
Ethernet Unit configuration example for CV-series..................................................... 6
Ethernet Unit configuration for CS1-series using CX-Programmer............................. 7
Example program for sending “unsolicited” data from PLC ........................................ 12
Configuring the OMRONETH Server.............................................................................. 14
Server Settings Command.......................................................................................... 14
Socket Definition Command ....................................................................................... 16
Saving OMRONETH Configuration File...................................................................... 17
Configuration File Location ......................................................................................... 17
Topic Definition Command ......................................................................................... 18
Item Names.................................................................................................................... 22
C-series PLCs ............................................................................................................ 24
C200HX/C200HG/C200HE PLCs ............................................................................... 25
CS1/CJ1-series PLCs................................................................................................. 27
CV-series PLCs .......................................................................................................... 29
Monitoring and Controlling Communication with a PLC.............................................. 32
Using the OMRONETH Server with OPC Clients........................................................... 34
Configuring DCOM ..................................................................................................... 34
Running OMRONETH “OPC & DDE” version as Windows NT Service ...................... 36
Using OMRONETH with OPCLink Server .................................................................. 38
OPCLink Topic Definition ........................................................................................38
Accesing OMRONETH Items via the OPCLink Server............................................39
Using the OMRONETH Server with Suite Link and DDE Clients ................................... 40
Using the OMRONETH Server with InTouch ................................................................. 40
Defining the Access Names........................................................................................ 40
Defining the Tag names.............................................................................................. 42
Monitoring the Status of Communication with InTouch............................................... 44
Notes on Using Microsoft Excel ..................................................................................... 45
Reading Values into Excel Spreadsheets................................................................... 45
Writing Values to OMRONETH Points........................................................................ 45
Notes on Improving Server Performance ....................................................................... 47
The timing problems ................................................................................................... 47
The using of Controller memory areas ....................................................................... 47
Some proposals for alarm (Discrete) values processing............................................. 48
Using more than one Socket ...................................................................................... 48
Other proposals .......................................................................................................... 48
Troubleshooting.............................................................................................................. 48
WIN.INI entries ........................................................................................................... 48
Troubleshooting menu ................................................................................................ 51
OMRONETH Communication Server Ver 2.x User Manual Rev 1.12
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