KB-33436: Driver licenses for Ethernet communication.
Question: How many licenses are needed to communicate with a network with five PLCs via Ethernet? Solution:To do so, you will need one license per driver object in the application,…
Question: How many licenses are needed to communicate with a network with five PLCs via Ethernet? Solution:To do so, you will need one license per driver object in the application,…
Question: How can I disable the message Abort in Error of the driver at Elipse SCADA? Solution: To do so, select the driver at the Organizer and uncheck the option…
Question: How can I use the driver to visualize the communication status? Solution: In the driver’s folder, there is an icon called TagBrowser. This object has several I/O drivers from…
Question: How does Driver starts in listen mode option behave when enabled? Solution: Listen Mode happens when the driver is able to ‘listen’ to the connection of another master/slave. The…
Question: Can I use two PLCs working in redundancy with the same driver? Solution: Yes. To do so, you must enable the option BackUpAddress on IOKit’s Ethernet tab, and insert…
Question: Can I export a driver’s I/O tags to a list in Excel format? Solution: Yes, you can. To do so, you must right-click the driver object and choose the…
Question: How can I stop tag count on a Counter Tag briefly? Solution: To do so, just set ResetCounterWhenEnabled property as False and, in the desired event, execute two scripts:…
Question: How can I establish communication between Elipse’s supervisory systems (Elipse SCADA or E3) and the device via Profibus DP protocol? Solution: To establish communication with a Profibus network, it…
Question: How can I alter a driver’s timeout dynamically via a setpoint on the application’s screen? Solution: To do so, you must add IOTimeOutMs property (in IOKit’s Parameters folder) to…
Question: Why is SNMP Driver not working with E3 version 2.5? Solution: According to SNMP Driver’s manual, the driver needs IOKit.dll Library’s version 1.15 and E3’s version 3.2 or higher …