Initiate autoscan via the user program – Rockwell Automation 1769-SDN Compact I/O DeviceNet Scanner Module User Manual User Manual

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Publication 1769-UM009E-EN-P - August 2009

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Automatically Configure a DeviceNet Network Chapter 4

Initiate AutoScan Via the User Program

Follow these steps to initiate AutoScan using a MSG instruction.

1.

Verify that the scanner is in IDLE mode, that is bit 0 in the scanner
control output word = 0, and that all slave nodes are connected to and
communicating on the DeviceNet network.

2.

In the RSLogix 5000 programming software Tag Editor, create new tags
to initiate AutoScan via ladder programming as shown in the example
below.

3.

Create a MSG instruction that uses the new tags.

4.

Configure the MSG instruction to use the proper parameters.

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