Lenze PLC Designer PLC Designer (R2-x) - Manual (Page 237)

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The Individual Components

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Here you can enter and/or edit the following:
• The type of connection from your computer to the computer on which the
gateway server that you want to use is running. If the gateway server is running
on the local computer, connection via shared memory („local“) or via TCP/IP is
possible; if connection to a different computer is needed, only TCP/IP can be used.
• The address of the computer, on which the gateway server that you want to use is
running: IP address or the appropriate symbolic name such as e.g. localhost.
Regard that leading zeros added to the address range number however are not
allowed (example: not possible: '010.107.084.050', must be entered as
'10.107.84.50'). On initial setup, the standard 'localhost' is offered as the computer
name (address), which means that the locally installed gateway would be
accessed. The name 'localhost' is set to be identical to the local IP address 127.0.0.1
in most cases, but you may in some cases have to enter this directly into the
Address field. If you want to access a gateway server on another computer, you
must replace 'localhost' with its name or IP address.
• The password for the selected gateway server, if it is on a remote computer. If it is
incorrectly entered, or not entered at all, an error message appears.
Note in this connection: you can give the locally installed gateway server a
password with the following procedure: click with the right mouse button on the
gateway symbol in the lower right portion of the toolbar and select „Change
password“. A dialog comes up for changing or entering a password. If you access
the gateway server locally any password that is entered will not be asked for.
• The computer’s port on which the gateway server that you wish to use is running,
as a rule the correct value for the selected gateway is already given.
If the dialog is closed with OK, the corresponding entry (computer address) appears in
the Channels field at the top of the 'Communication parameters' dialog, and below it
the channels available on this gateway server.
Setting up the desired channel on the selected gateway server:
Now select one of the channels by clicking on an entry with the mouse. The
corresponding parameters will then be shown in the table. If no connection can be
established to the selected gateway address — possibly because it has not been
started or the address is incorrect — the phrase 'not connected' appears in brackets
after the address and a message 'No gateway with these settings could be found'
appears. In this connection perform a quick check.
Once the desired channel is set up, close the dialog using OK. The settings are saved
with the project.