GE Industrial Solutions POWER LEADER ModBus Monitor - Manual (Page 29)

POWER LEADER Modbus Monitor
Chapter 3 – Configuration
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To perform this function, the Configuration Tool
requires two things. First, the RS-232 connection
between the PC and the Monitor must be in place.
Second, the Monitor must be placed in Setup mode. See
the section below titled PC to Monitor Connection for
details.
Select an existing configuration to overwrite with the
incoming data from the Monitor, or enter a new name (4
to 20 alphanumeric characters) to create a new
configuration to receive the Monitor’s data. Click Read
to upload the configuration information from the
Monitor to the selected Configuration. A progress
indicator will appear, showing as each portion of the
configuration file is transmitted from the Monitor to the
Configuration Tool.
Click Cancel to exit without reading files.
When you read a configuration from a Monitor, both the
Hybrid device definition file and the Generic device
definition file stored by the Modbus Monitor are read by
the Configuration Tool. There are three possible
outcomes that the Configuration Tool may find:
1. There may be hybrid or generic device types
defined at the Monitor which do not exist in the
defined configuration at the Configuration Tool, so
they are added;
2. There may be hybrid or generic device types
defined at the Monitor which are already present
in the Configuration Tool and are ignored;
3. There may be hybrid or generic device types
defined at the Monitor which do not exist in the
defined configuration at the Configuration Tool,
but cannot be added because the configuration
already contains the maximum of 31 device types.
When the Read Configuration is complete, if generic or
hybrid device types were found, you’ll have the option to
display the Device Types Result Log, showing what
information was obtained from the Monitor. This is
shown in Figure 29.
The three columns in the Result Log show any device
types added, any device types ignored due to a duplicate
name already existing in the configuration, and any
device types skipped. If any device types were skipped,
you’ll know that you have exceeded the 31 device type
limit and must delete one or more device types if you
wish to add those which were skipped.