M2MLogger LadderLOGIX, User Manual

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Page 3: ...with our policy of continuous product development The information in this document is subject to change without notice and should not be considered a commitment by M2MLogger M2MLogger assumes no responsibility for any errors that may appear in this document The document uses following pictures to get the reader s attention Symbol Description Note Important information to avoid configuration that c...

Page 4: ...ctions 14 6 5 1 RS232 GSM GPRS 15 6 5 2 MODBUS RS 485 15 6 5 3 Power 24VDC 15 6 5 4 LED Indication 16 7 Getting Started 17 7 1 Auto Discovery utility 17 7 1 1 Installation 17 7 1 2 Scanning devices connected over network 17 7 1 3 Scanning devices connected directly 17 8 Web UI overview 19 8 1 Browser Requirement 19 8 2 Log in 19 9 User interface 20 9 1 Control Panel 20 9 2 Device Settings 21 9 2 1...

Page 5: ...lbar 49 9 9 2 Zoom 49 9 10 Tag Stream 50 9 10 1 Toolbar 50 9 11 Alerts 51 9 11 1 Toolbar 51 10 Appendix 52 10 1 File name wildcards 52 10 1 1 Asterisk 52 10 2 FTP Commands 52 10 2 1 STOR 52 11 Troubleshoot 53 11 1 Power LED not ON 53 11 2 Both Run and Error LEDs blinking 53 11 3 Run LED ON and Error LED blinking 53 11 4 Run LED OFF and Error LED ON 53 11 5 Connecting internet with Static IP Addres...

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Page 7: ...col HTTP is a set of rules for exchanging files text graphic images sound video and other multimedia files on the Web DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP is a standard protocol that automates the process of configuring network hosts by allowing hosts to obtain IP addresses and configuration parameters Gateway A device that makes it possible to transfer data between networks of different ...

Page 8: ...8 ver 1 6 0 0 User Manual LadderLOGIX 4 How to use LadderLOGIX Figure 1 How it works ...

Page 9: ... On o Gateway Mode Send o Loop Continuous o Loop Interval 10 sec o Workflow Disabled Configure and Save Server Settings See Section 9 2 2 1 Power Off and Power On the device 5 2 As FTP Data Logger Configure and Save Mode Setting See Section 9 2 2 1 o Cloud Connector Off o Gateway Mode Log o Loop Continuous o Loop Interval 10 sec o Workflow Enabled Configure and Save Logger Settings See Section 9 2...

Page 10: ...9 2 2 1 o Cloud Connector Off o Gateway Mode Log o Loop Continuous o Loop Interval 10 sec o Workflow Enabled Configure and Save Logger Settings See Section 9 2 2 8 Go to Control Panel Workflow See Section 9 4 o Add Move File Task Trigger Any Source Folder Data Source Filename tag fdb Destination Folder Workflow o Add Custom Task Trigger Any Executable Fdb2Csv exe Arguments tag fdb Timeout sec s 2 ...

Page 11: ...ector Off o Gateway Mode Log o Loop Continuous o Loop Interval 10 sec o Workflow Enabled Configure and Save Logger Settings See Section 9 2 2 8 Go to Control Panel Monitor Settings and create a Monitor screen See Section 9 5 Go to Control Panel Trend Settings and create a Trend screen See Section 9 6 Power Off and Power On the device Go to Control Panel Monitors or Control Panel Trends to view rea...

Page 12: ...ring WebFRONT Web SCADA Cloud gateway Web User Interface Web UI MODBUS RTU RS 485 MODBUS Ethernet IP File Transfer Protocol FTP USB Pen drive data logger Alerts SMS Email Signal Scaling Rugged design for rough Industrial conditions Compact DIN rail mounting Plug n play Fail safe for power failures Over The Air OTA upgrades 1KV isolation LadderLOGIX supports an RS 232 connection through a 9 pin DSU...

Page 13: ...er Module Status Internet Cloud Communication Status Additional MXPXA300 MXPXA1000 Processor 208 MHz 1Ghz Dual Core Ethernet 10 100Mbits 10 100Mbits USB Host 1 USB 2 0 1 USB 2 0 Real Time Clock SNTP Email SMTP FTP Web Server GSM GPRS Internal Storage 3000 records 5000 records Power MXPXA300 MXPXA1000 Voltage 24VDC 10 24VDC 10 Current 1 A 1 A Power Usage 4 Watts max 5 Watts max Isolation Supply to ...

Page 14: ...ture 10 to 70 C Humidity 30 to 95 RH non condensing Physical Dimensions 35 W x 101 H x 120 D mm Mounting DIN Rail Weight 250 gms approx Enclosure Material Molded ABS 6 4 Mechanical Figure 2 Physical Dimensions mm 6 5 Connections Figure 3 Field Connections ...

Page 15: ...m Pin Function 1 CD Carrier Detect 2 RX Receive 3 TX Transmit 4 DTR Data Terminal Ready 5 GND Ground 6 DSR Data Set Ready 7 RTS Request To Send 8 CTS Clear To Send 9 RI Ring Indicator 6 5 2 MODBUS RS 485 Pin Function A RS 485 Line A B RS 485 Line B 6 5 3 Power 24VDC Pin Function 24 VDC Ground Figure 4 Normal wiring diagram for MODBUS terminal A and B A B A B LadderLOGIX MODBUS slave ...

Page 16: ...er Device Run Off Not running Orange Boot up or Error Flashing Orange Module running Internet Off No Internet Orange Internet Connected WebFRONT Off WebFRONT disconnected Orange WebFRONT Connected Error Off No Error Red Unrecoverable Error Flashing Red Error Data Transmission Off No Transmission Flashing Orange MODBUS Transmitting Data Reception Off No Reception Flashing Orange MODBUS Receiving ...

Page 17: ...rk If your LadderLOGIX device s are connected over a network then you should consider following steps 1 Power up LadderLOGIX device and connect LadderLOGIX with network 2 Start AutoDiscovery exe utility 3 Select the relevant Network Adapter and select Discover 4 To configuration a LadderLOGIX device click the Configure button to open up Web UI for the device in Web Browser 7 1 3 Scanning devices c...

Page 18: ...ith Laptop make sure data logger is running 7 Select the relevant Network Adapter and select Discover 8 To configuration a LadderLOGIX device click the Configure button to open up Web UI for the device in Web Browser AutoDiscovery exe runs on Dot Net Framework 3 5 Please download and install Dot Net Framework 3 5 from http www microsoft com It your device is connected on LAN and you are having tro...

Page 19: ... pages like the Monitors and Trends If it is not please upgrade to a HTML 5 enabled browser visit http www html5test com 8 2 Log in Open a web browser and enter the IP address of your device if you know or click on Configure button in Auto Discovery to launch Web Browser with appropriate IP address of device For example if IP Address of device is 192 168 1 2 then you should enter the text below in...

Page 20: ... 6 0 0 User Manual LadderLOGIX 9 User interface 9 1 Control Panel Control Panel is the default landing screen for the device Here you can navigate to different screens for configuration and SCADA visualizations ...

Page 21: ...for device 9 2 1 1 Options Option Description Serial Device Serial Number MAC Address Unique Device MAC address Firmware Device Firmware version Name Device Name also reflected on network Internet Internet connection status Cloud WebFRONT connection status 9 2 1 2 Toolbar Button Description Refresh General Settings Save changes to Device Name Restart device Upgrade device firmware ...

Page 22: ...he gateway mode Send send values to Cloud Log log values on local storage Send Log send values to Cloud and also log on local storage Default Send Loop Sets the loop mode for device Continuous loops continuously Triggered one iteration when triggered Default Continuous Loop Interval Sets device loop interval Default 5 sec Workflow Enable Disable Workflow When the device is running Average Loop is ...

Page 23: ...essage Default 30 sec Keep Alive Retry Number of keep alive retries to detect a closed WebFRONT connection Default 3 sec 9 2 2 3 Clock This setting lets user set the device calendar and clock Option Description Timezone Device time zone Default Coordinate Universal Time Date Current Date Month Current Month Year Current Year Hour Current Hour in 24 hour format Minutes Current Minutes Seconds Curre...

Page 24: ...rrent Seconds 9 2 2 5 Modem This setting lets user set modem options An external modem which is optional can be a GSM GPRS attached to the RS 232 9 pin DSUB interface Option Description Modem Mode Set Modem Modes None Message Data Default None Baudrate Baudrate settings in bps 9600 19200 38400 57600 115200 Default 115200 Start bits Frame start bit 1 Default 1 Data bits Frame data bits 5 6 7 8 Defa...

Page 25: ...ame GPRS gateway that is given by SIM card operator 9 2 2 6 SMTP This setting lets user configure the SMTP settings to use while sending out email Option Description Account Account name for the SMTP server Username User name for the SMTP server Password Password for the SMTP server Server SMTP Server that is used for sending e mail Could be entered as IP address or domain name Port SMTP server po...

Page 26: ...ts 5 6 7 8 Default 8 Stop Bits Frame stop bits 1 1 5 2 Default 1 stop bit Handshake None Software Hardware Both Default Hardware Parity None Even Odd Default None Timeout The time that device will wait for a response from a slave before serial timeout will occur Default 1000 Retry Number of retry if an error occurs while querying data from MODBUS slave Default 3 9 2 2 8 Logger This setting lets us...

Page 27: ...e Feed Default Line Feed Rollover time Rollover time for the logger when it rolls over the current file and starts writing to a new file Default 5 mins Encoding Logger text encoding Default ASCII tag fdb is the active file on which Logger is writing Any operation on tag fdb may result in device malfunction Logger always writes the file to Data directory Logger filename format tag ddMMyyyyHHmmss fd...

Page 28: ...e the data files from this screen 9 2 3 1 Data This selection lists down the files under Data folder 9 2 3 2 Logs This selection lists down the files under Logs folder 9 2 3 3 Workflow This selection lists down the files under Workflow folder 9 2 3 4 Toolbar Button Description Folder Folder to explore Refresh Data files Delete a data file ...

Page 29: ...reen you define Tags MODBUS queries and Alerts 9 3 1 Tags You can configure MODBUS queries as Tags 9 3 1 1 Toolbar Button Description Add a Tag Edit a Tag Clone a Tag Delete Tag s Delete a Tag Group all the Tags within the same Group will be deleted Add Edit Scaling for Tag ...

Page 30: ...ART Input Function MODBUS Functions Read Coils Read Discrete Inputs Read Holding Registers Read Input Registers Write Single Coil Write Single Register Default Read Input Register Trigger Trigger for Tag to get recorded None On Change Default None Units Tag units Precision Tag precision digits 0 to 6 Slave Id MODBUS Slave Id of slave device 1 to 247 Data Type Data Type of Tag Bit Integer 16 bit ...

Page 31: ...DBUS TCP Outputs Timeout Time for which device will wait for MODBUS slave to reply Default 100 ms Retry Number of retries after which MODBUS query errors out Hysteresis Hysteresis for Tag values Tag value only gets recorded if Hysteresis is satisfied None Absolute Percentage Default None Value Hysteresis Value to use for computing Tag Hysteresis Group Specify Group name to group Tags to execute MO...

Page 32: ...ODBUS TCP Bulk Query is grouped by Tag Group IP Address Host Port Slave Id and Function 9 3 1 3 3 Timeout Bulk Query obtains Timeout value from Device Settings System MODBUS Timeout See Section 9 2 2 7 9 3 1 3 4 Retry Bulk Query obtains Retry value from Device Settings System MODBUS Retry See Section 9 2 2 7 9 3 1 4 Scale Tag Scaling is used to convert measured values to engineering values LadderL...

Page 33: ...ption that has to be raised and notified when a Tag breaches its threshold 9 3 2 1 Toolbar Button Description Add an Alert Edit an Alert Delete an Alert Add Edit Success actions Add Edit Failure actions Reg Value has precision of 6 decimal places Engineering Value has same precision as that of Tag A maximum of 10 data points can be entered ...

Page 34: ...eset System Reset Alert sys storage System Storage Alert Tags Input Tags Operation Alert Operation Equal Not Equal Greater Than Greater Than Equal Less Than Less Than Equal On Change Raises alert if underlying Tag has changed Default Equal Value Right Hand Side Value to compare with Precision Alert precision digits Hysteresis Hysteresis for Alert values Alert get raised only if Hysteresis is satis...

Page 35: ...rformed based on Success Failure of an Alert To configure select an Alert and click a relevant action button 9 3 2 3 1 Notify To send notification to WebFRONT server check Notify checkbox in the Alert Action handler 9 3 2 3 2 SMS User can choose to send SMS notification for an Alert Alert condition should hold True through the delay period Otherwise Alert is reset Valid for sys reset sys storag an...

Page 36: ...m message to be included in SMS Include Snapshot Include Alert Values snapshot 9 3 2 3 3 Email User can choose to send Email notification for an Alert Option Description To Recipients emails separated by Semi Colon Configure Modem to Messaging mode See Section 0 SMS will only be sent if a GPRS modem is detected by device ...

Page 37: ...e Snapshot Include Alert Values snapshot 9 3 2 3 4 Tag User can choose to update Output Tags as an alert action Updates to Tag are immediately sent to MODBUS slaves Option Description Tag Select a Tag you wish to update Value Provide a value to update to the Tag Helpful when preventive actions have to be taken in response to an alert Internet Connection required for sending email See Section 0 Val...

Page 38: ...defined sequential order User can configure custom workflow from this screen 9 4 1 Toolbar Button Description Refresh Workflow Add a Workflow Task Edit a Workflow Task Delete a Workflow Task Save Workflow Frequency Frequency in seconds to run Workflow Enable Workflow from option Workflow in Section 9 2 2 1 ...

Page 39: ... Any Starts a task irrespective of previous task being success failure Success Starts a task only if previous task was success Failure Starts a task only if previous task was failure Default Any 9 4 3 Tasks 9 4 3 1 Move File Move a file from source folder to a destination folder Option Description Source Folder Source folder to copy file from Data Workflow Default Data Source Filename File name of...

Page 40: ...er File Transfer Server name Port File Transfer Server Port Username Username for logging on to FTP server Password Password for logging on to FTP server Command FTP command to run See Section 10 2 9 4 3 3 Delete File This task deletes a file from source location FTP files will be picked from Workflow folder only After successful FTP file is renamed to original filename ftp Only simple FTP support...

Page 41: ...n 10 1 9 4 3 4 Custom This is a custom task and should only be configured after consultation from M2MLogger Option Description Executable Name of Custom Executable to run Arguments Arguments to Custom Executable file Filename can contain wildcards See Section 10 1 Timeout sec s Time to wait for Custom Executable to return The Custom Executable will be terminated if does not returns within timeout ...

Page 42: ...ename Filename can contain wildcards See Section 10 1 Host name Hostname of network computer Destination Folder Shared folder on network compute where files have to be copied 9 5 Monitor Settings Monitor Settings is a WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get designer where you can design visualization screen with gauges Shared folder should have exclusive Read Write Delete rights for Everyone on netwo...

Page 43: ...dth x Height for Monitor View 9 5 1 Widgets Option Description Type Visualization Widget Types Radial Analog Gauge Rectangular Analog Gauge VU Meter Thermometer Liner Meter Digital Meter Led Tank Power Switch Use this to toggle Output Default Radial Analog Gauge Tag Tag name to bind with Widget 9 5 2 Widget Properties Option Description ...

Page 44: ... Steps for Widget Range Green Maximum Rule Value for Green range marker Yellow Maximum Rule Value for Yellow range marker Red Maximum Rule Value for Red range marker Size Position Height Height of Widget in pixels Width Width of Widget in pixels Left Left position of Widget in pixels Top Top position of Widget in pixels Title Text Title text Dock Docking position for Title text top center show tit...

Page 45: ...ion Description Refresh Rate Rate at which data is refreshed from server Size Canvas Size in Width x Height for Monitor View 9 6 1 Trend A Trend is a graphical representation of Time series data One Trend can contain multiple Traces Each Trace represents one Tag Option Description Name Name of Trend Type Visualization Trend Types Line Default Line 9 6 2 Trend Properties Option Description ...

Page 46: ...ends for Traces Show Filled Show Hide filled area under chart Show Title Show Hide Title for chart Scale 1 X Scales up down Widget values by 1 X Axis Y Axis Min Minimum value for Y Axis Y Axis Max Maximum value for Y Axis Size Position Height Height of Widget in pixels Width Width of Widget in pixels Left Left position of Widget in pixels Top Top position of Widget in pixels Traces Legend Legend f...

Page 47: ...47 ver 1 6 0 0 User Manual LadderLOGIX 9 7 Account You change your account password from this screen Type New Password and Confirm Password and Click Change Password ...

Page 48: ...ze logged Tag values as Gauges on a real time basis 9 8 1 Toolbar Button Description Refresh Rate Refresh Rate for Monitor screen Start polling data from server Stop polling data from server Last Refreshed Timestamp of last refresh Double clicking a Power Switch will toggle the output ...

Page 49: ... chart on a real time basis 9 9 1 Toolbar Button Description Refresh Rate Refresh Rate for Trends screen Start polling data from server Stop polling data from server Last Refreshed Timestamp of last refresh 9 9 2 Zoom To zoom the Trend chart select the desired area in the Zoom panel at the bottom of Trend chart ...

Page 50: ...0 ver 1 6 0 0 User Manual LadderLOGIX 9 10 Tag Stream Tag Stream screen tabulates the latest Tag values To refresh values click on Refresh button 9 10 1 Toolbar Button Description Refresh Tag Stream data ...

Page 51: ...51 ver 1 6 0 0 User Manual LadderLOGIX 9 11 Alerts Alert screen tabulates all the Alerts raised by device 9 11 1 Toolbar Button Description Refresh Alerts data ...

Page 52: ...ple tag fdb Successful Match tag0123 fdb Failed Match tag fdb 10 2 FTP Commands 10 2 1 STOR Accept the data and to store the data as a file at the server site Syntax STOR filename filename is the source file name See Section 10 1 Example STOR tag_ fdb The destination filename will always be same as source file name FTP files will be picked from Workflow folder only ...

Page 53: ...s per Section 9 2 2 3 11 4 Run LED OFF and Error LED ON If Run LED is OFF and Error LED is ON this means the device has encountered an unrecoverable error Generally LadderLOGIX device will restart under such a condition But if the problem persists on three consecutive restarts then device shows the status until remedial action is taken Please consult M2MLogger Support for further assistance 11 5 C...

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