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POWER LEADER Modbus Monitor
Chapter 3 – Configuration
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Chapter 3
Configuration
After installing the Modbus Monitor, some initial
configuration is required to set up the Monitor for
communications. Communications settings such as baud
rate, parity, and Modbus address must be set to
correspond with the network’s settings.
Once the Monitor has been successfully configured for
network communications, it must also be configured for
its task: monitoring the other devices on the network. To
successfully monitor other devices on the Modbus
segment(s), a Monitor must know the Modbus addresses
and device types of all the devices on the segment(s).
These configuration tasks require the use of the Modbus
Monitor Configuration Tool, a Windows-based software
program included with the Modbus Monitor.
The Modbus Monitor Configuration Tool is used to
create a “profile” of the Monitor, consisting of all the
different configurable attributes, such as
communications settings, information on devices
connected to the Modbus segment(s), the register maps
for these devices, etc.
Once the desired profile has been established, it can be
downloaded to the Monitor via the RS-232 port on the
Monitor’s front panel. When a new profile has been
downloaded to the Monitor, the old profile will be
replaced and the new profile will take effect.
This chapter will cover using the Configuration Tool to
create a profile for the Monitor and how to download the
profile to the Monitor. Later in the chapter, we’ll discuss
what other configuration options are available from the
Monitor’s display/keypad, not requiring the
Configuration Tool.
Modbus Monitor Configuration Tool
First, launch the Monitor Configuration Tool from the
Windows Program Manager. The Modbus Monitor
Configuration Tool main window will appear (Figure
14).
There are three pulldown menus available from the main
screen of the Configuration Tool. The first, File, offers
standard options to create a new database of Monitor
configurations, open an existing database, or create a
new database by Saving the current database As… under
a new file name. Within one database, you may have
many Monitor configurations. This allows you to group
configurations by project or customer; for instance, you
might have a file called Customer_A and within that file,
there might be configurations named Plant 1 Monitor 1,
Plant 1 Monitor 2, Paint Shop Monitor, etc.
The Configuration pulldown menu offers access to the
Print dialog box (discussed later in this chapter) and the
View dialog box, which permits you to create, modify or
delete configurations within a database. The View dialog
box is shown in Figure 15.
The third pulldown menu, Help, offers the standard
Contents item, which accesses the Configuration Tool’s
HELP table of contents, and the About dialog, which
gives information about the version of the Configuration
Tool you are using.