Rockwell Automation 2711C-xxxx PanelView Component HMI Terminals - Manual (Page 14)

14 Publication 2711C-UM001I-EN-P - July 2014
Chapter 1 Overview
Ethernet Port
The C400, C600 and C1000 terminals have an Ethernet port. The Ethernet port
supports both static IP addresses and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
(DHCP) assigned IP addresses. If using static IP addressing, then you manually
set the IP address, the subnet mask, and the default gateway. If using DHCP, then
the server automatically assigns an IP address, the subnet mask, the default
gateway, and the DNS and WINS server.
PanelView Explorer PanelView Explorer is the design environment for the PanelView Component
terminals. You access the design environment through your browser while
connected to the terminal. Applications created in the design environment are
simultaneously viewed on the connected terminal. In addition to graphic objects
and drawings, the design environment provides support for communication, tags,
alarms, security, recipes, and language support.
How to Display Help PanelView Explorer software provides extensive help for the design environment.
Context-sensitive help is available for:
• each navigation tab.
• each object in the object palette.
• any dialog that has a Help button.
Click the ? on the application toolbar to view the help.
No Help Files Found
To view help information in your browser, you must download the help files from
the PanelView Component web site, copy them to external media, and then
insert the media in the terminal. External media can be a USB flash drive or an
SD memory card.
IMPORTANT If a terminal is set for DHCP and is not on a network or is on a
network that does not have a DHCP server (or the server is not
available), it will automatically assign itself an Automatic Private
IP Address (or auto IP address). The auto IP address will be in the
range of 169.254.0.0 through 169.254.255.255.
The terminal makes sure the auto IP address is unique from any
other auto IP address of other devices on the network. The
terminal can now communicate with other devices on the network
that have IP addresses in the 169.254.xxx.xxx range (and a subnet
mask of 255.255.0.0).