Rockwell Automation 2708-NNM Network Manager Software - Manual (Page 15)

Chapter 3
The Menus
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F1 – Help
Pressing <F1> or <H> from the Main Menu will replace the screen with the
Help screen. The first page of Help briefly describes NM. The second page
describes the layout of the Main Menu and Network Activity Statistics screen
(the screen that you see when NM is first started). The third page is general
information about using NM.
Pressing <F1> again will cause the Help Index to be displayed. Using the
arrow keys various subjects can be highlighted.
Once highlighted, pressing
<ENTER> will cause information about specific topics to be displayed. To exit
the Help Menu press <ESC> to get back to the current menu.
F2 – Network Status
The Network Status Menu is accessed by hitting <F2>/‘N’ from the Main
Menu. The status information displays various items of interest on each of
the terminals configured in the Layout Menu of the Change Configuration
Menu of the Supervisor Services.
Information such as workstation number, workstation type, online/offline
status, records transmitted, records received, serial number, firmware type,
memory configuration, contents of the display and what types of input
records have been received is available.
It is not possible to display all this information on the screen at one time, so
seven different formats of status are possible. By pressing the keys <0>
through <6> the different formats are displayed.
F3 – Global Time Set
The Global Time Set command takes the host PC’s time and uses it to set the
time on the workstations. This command should be done weekly to keep the
time on the workstations consistent with the host PC.
For automated time synchronization between NM and the network ‘Set the
time on all units during startup’ can be set to ‘Yes’ in the Supervisor Menu /
Change Configuration / Options (Yes/No) menu.
The Main Menus (cont’d)