16 Configuration Console Tool

16 Configuration Console Tool

The Configuration Console is a snap-in program embedded in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and provides a wide range of options for configuring PC hardware components and PC user programs as well as providing diagnostic functions.

Settings for the OPC servers that ship with the communication software can also be made in the Configuration Console.

The “Configuration Console” supports the following tasks in the communications system of a SIMATIC PC station:

SCommissioning and operation

SEditing the configuration

SDiagnostics

16.1Characteristics, Function and Activation

How to Start the Configuration Console

Select the following from the Start menu of the Windows operating system:

Programs " SIMATIC NET " Settings " Configuration Console

Commissioning PC Stations - Manual and Quick Start

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