User Manual Owner's manual
Table Of Contents
- Important User Information
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- About the Interface
- Overview
- Important Interface Considerations
- About the Interface
- Interface Features
- What the Interface Does
- Hardware/Software Compatibility
- Use of the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP)
- Understand the Producer/ Consumer Model
- Specify the Requested Packet Interval (RPI)
- Support of Data Connections
- Chapter Summary
- Install a Guardmaster EtherNet/IP Network Interface
- Configure the Interface for Your EtherNet/ IP Network
- Automation Controller Communications
- Troubleshoot the Interface
- EtherNet/IP Network Interface Specifications
- Interface Web Dialogs
- Configure the RSLinx Ethernet Communication Driver
- Tag Definitions

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Table of Contents
Chapter 4
Automation Controller
Communications
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Ethernet Messaging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
I/O Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Logix Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
EtherNet/IP Network Configuration with Add-on Profiles . . . . . . 30
Accessing Module Data with Add-on Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Explicit Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 5
Troubleshoot the Interface
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Interpret the Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Status Indicators for the Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Appendix A
EtherNet/IP Network Interface
Specifications
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Appendix B
Interface Web Dialogs
Work with the Home Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Work with the Browse LSR Devices Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Work with the Administrative Settings Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Use the Network Configuration Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Use the E-mail Configuration Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Appendix C
Configure the RSLinx Ethernet
Communication Driver
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Install the RSLinx Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Configure the AB_ETH Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Configure the AB_ETH/IP Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Appendix D
Tag Definitions
Tag Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51