User Documentation

User Manual Managed Switches

1. About this Manual

Thank you for purchasing a Weidmüller managed Industrial Ethernet switch. Read this user’s manual

to learn how to connect your Weidmüller switch to Ethernet-enabled devices used for industrial

applications.

The following chapters are covered in this user manual:

 Getting Started

This chapter explains how to connect to the Weidmüller Switch for configuration. There are

three ways to access the Switch's configuration settings:

 Serial console

 Telnet console and

 Web console

 Featured Functions

This chapter explains how to access the Switch's various configuration, monitoring, and

administration functions. These functions can be accessed by serial, Telnet, or Web console.

The Web console is the most user-friendly way for configuring and monitoring. In this chapter,

we use the Web console interface to introduce the functions.

 Communication Redundancy

This chapter explains how to use the various implemented redundancy features

 Turbo Ring (original version V1) and Turbo Ring V2

 Turbo Chain

 STP/RSTP

 Industrial Protocol Guide

This chapter explains how to use the Switch the implemented industrial automation protocols

 Profinet

 Modbus TCP

 Weidmüller Switch Configuration Utility

This chapter explains how to use external PC-tool Switch Configuration Utility which is very

helpful

 to detect Weidmüller switches which are attached to the same LAN as the PC host

(regardless of whether or not you know the IP addresses of the switches)

 to connect to an Weidmüller switch whose IP address is known

 to modify the network configurations of one or multiple Weidmüller switches

 and to update the firmware of one or more Weidmüller Switches.