Rockwell Automation 1785-CHBM ControlNet PLC-5 Hot Backup System User Manual - Manual (Page 30)

Publication 1785-UM024B-EN-P - January 2003
3-4 Installing and Configuring Your ControlNet PLC-5 Backup System
The Scanlist Configuration screen appears.
4. For each entry under the Connection Name column, double
click on Exclusive Owner, choose Redundant Owner from
the pull-down menu, and press Enter.
Configure Handshaking Messages With RSNetWorx
Within your backup system, you must use RSNetWorx to set up the
send and receive scheduled messages that allow handshaking to occur
between the two ControlNet PLC-5s that comprise your backup
system.
For each of the PLC-5s comprising a backup system, you must create
two scheduled peer-to-peer messages: one Produce Buffer ID (send)
and one Consume Buffer ID (receive). These messages must be
exactly five words in length
From the Scanlist Configuration screen for the first PLC-5, follow
these steps:
1. Right click on the even-numbered node (Node 2 in this
example) and choose Insert Connection.