Schneider Electric 174 CEV

DiagnosticTools

6.6MBPSTAT

MBPSTATistheModbusPlusnetworkdiagnosticutility.Youcan useit toviewa

listofactive nodes,monitornetworkactivity,andrecord a node’serrorstatistics.

6.6.1Starting MBPSTAT

MBPSTATisrunfromthe bridge’s command line.You can get the command line

promptbyinitializing the bridge withoutaconnection toaBOOTPserver.

Setup

If akeyboard and monitorare already connected tothe bridge,stop the bridge by

pressing Qand confirming thatyou want to quit the bridge application.

If akeyboard and monitorare notconnected,remove powertothe bridge and

connect themtothe bridge’sconnectorpanel.Restore powertothe bridge.

If the bridge displays itsCFGUTILmenu,press Escape toclosethe menu.This

should displaythe bridge’sC:\>prompt.

Starting

Tostartthe program,enter:MBPSTAT/s5d

6.6.2Selecting theNetworkto beAnalyzed

The programwill nextpromptyou forarouting pathtothe ModbusPlusnetwork

you want to analyze.Forexample,you canexamine the localnetwork,oryou can

examinearemote networkthatisaccessed through a seriesofBP85 Bridge Plus

devices.

Notethatyou areselectingatargetnetworkonly---- theaddress ofany specific

node on thatnetworkwill be entered lateras you run the program.

Youcan enterup tofournetworkrouting bytes.The lastnon--zero entrydefines

the targetnetwork.The firstzero entryterminatesthe routing.Routing examples

areshowninFigure 20.Yourentryscreen is showninFigure 22.

6.6.3NetworkSelection Examples

If you enterarouting path ofall zeros,you are disabling routing to othernetworks.

Youareinstructing the programto analyzethe localModbusPlusnetwork(the one

towhichyourlocalhostbased deviceisdirectly connected).