Monitor connection status – Rockwell Automation 1755-OF8 GuardPLC Controller Systems User Manual

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Publication 1753-UM001C-EN-P - March 2010

Chapter 19 Use GuardPLC Controller as an Adapter

Monitor Connection Status

To monitor the status of your connections, follow these steps.

1. Go online with the GuardPLC controller by using RSLogix Guard

PLUS! software.

2. Switch to the EIP tab of the Control Panel and click the

Connection Status tab.

You can view the connection’s EtherNet/IP statistics, described in the
table below.

Statistic

Description

Peer IP

Reports the IP address of the scanner, in this case the
1756-ENBT

Peer Status

Indicates whether the scanner, in this case the Logix
controller, is in Run or Idle mode. This is displayed only
for exclusive owner connections, because input only
connections ignore any data coming from the scanner,
including the Run/Idle header.

Type

Displays the connection type

State

Displays the status of the connection

Input

Reports the assembly instance numbers that this
connection services

Output

Sent

Displays the total number of sent or received packets
over this connection

Rcvd

PRPI

Displays the producing packet rate requested when
scheduling this connection

CRPI

Displays the consuming packet rate requested when
scheduling this connection

MinPRPI, MaxPRPI, LastPRPI,
and AvrPRPI

Corresponds to the actual minimum, maximum, last, and
average producing packet rates observed over this
connection

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