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Created Date: January 12,2007
Created By: billf_Clark_Pulley
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I have all my C-More screens connected to my local intranet inside the plant. Which is really great! I can do a program change and never walk out on the floor, all done from my office. The problem is when I ping one of the screens I get a response of around 32ms. When I access my intranet from my house over a cable modem I get a ping time of 230ms. I can access all of my plc's over the internet from the house with no problems. I love this feature because I'm able to troubleshoot the equipment from the comfort of my house. Does anyone know how to edit the timeout time that the C-More screen software on your PC uses to access the screen. I'd like to increase the time to around 300ms.
Created Date: January 12,2007
Created by: HMI Eng
I am assuming you are connecting through a VPN connection.
1) When you "Browse " for the panel, select the "Offline Link List " Tab and type in the IP address of the panel. The "Online Link List " will not find the panel. If the connection is made, when you select the panel you have added, the OK button should be selectable.
2) Make sure Port 9999 is open on your network. This is the port used for project transfer with the C-more. You can find a whole list by searching for "Ethernet Connections Port " in the Help File. See the bottom of this post for a list of port numbers.
3) Last Option: The default Ethernet timeout is 3 seconds which should be plenty. To change default timeout for the connection between the programming software and the panel, add following 2 lines to the EA_.ini file: (make a backup of the file first please)
PanelTimeout=3
The units are in seconds.
Ethernet Connection......Port Number
Project Transfer...........9999
Pass Through..............11110
Email........................25
Web Server...................80
FTP..........................21 (Default, but user selectable)
Modbus TCP
Entivity Modbus TCP.........502
Direct Logic Ethernet.....28784
Ethernet/IP...............44818 (Explicit Messaging over TCP & 2222; I/O messaging over UDP multicasts)
Created Date: January 12,2010
Created by: H2KTech
I am using a Blue Tree cellular modem that has reserved 9999 and I cannot use it for port forwarding. Is their another port I can use? I am also inquiring at the modem manufacturer if they have a work around.
Created Date: January 13,2010
Created by: HMI Eng
9999 is the only port that can be used for Project Transfer.
Created Date: January 15,2010
Created by: Gall
WHAT IS THE uLogiX 1100 port used in the CMORE setup ?
if DL is 28784 how is Allen Bradley's differ?
Created Date: January 18,2010
Created by: jackson
WHAT IS THE uLogiX 1100 port used in the CMORE setup ?
Ethernet/IP...............44818 (Explicit Messaging over TCP & 2222; I/O messaging over UDP multicasts)
It is 44818 as shown in the chart.
if DL is 28784 how is Allen Bradley's differ?
I'm not completely sure I understand your question. Each application has its own listening port. Allen-Bradley has a few, 44818 being one of them and 2222 being another as shown above. The ECOMs in the DirectLogic system listen on 28784. Modbus is 502. Etc...
Created Date: February 02,2010
Created by: JArriola
3) Last Option: The default Ethernet timeout is 3 seconds which should be plenty. To change default timeout for the connection between the programming software and the panel, add following 2 lines to the EA_.ini file: (make a backup of the file first please)
PanelTimeout=3
The units are in seconds.
So does this mean that for bigger log files this setting should be changed?
Does it matter where in the ini file I put these lines? I didn't see any other timeout variables in the file.
Created Date: February 02,2010
Created by: Do-more PE
That setting has nothing to do with logging. It is for the timeout when transferring a project.
Created Date: February 02,2010
Created by: JArriola
Log files
In that case can you give me any tips for optimizing log file emails from the touch panel? I have almost a mb of log data at the end of the day for our machine. I enabled the SYS ERR EMAIL ERR bit in the event manager. It is setting that bit every night during the midnight log transfer and my log file isn't making it out. Any suggestions?
Created Date: February 03,2010
Created by: Do-more PE
Other than reducing the size of the log file, there really isn't much that can be done from a C-more standpoint.
Network traffic might be an issue. If you are using the C-more to get information from your PLC's over Ethernet you might be bogging the transfer speed down enough that the email server is timing out.
Created Date: January 12,2007
Created by: billf_Clark_Pulley
I have all my C-More screens connected to my local intranet inside the plant. Which is really great! I can do a program change and never walk out on the floor, all done from my office.
The problem is when I ping one of the screens I get a response of around 32ms. When I access my intranet from my house over a cable modem I get a ping time of 230ms. I can access all of my plc's over the internet from the house with no problems. I love this feature because I'm able to troubleshoot the equipment from the comfort of my house.
Does anyone know how to edit the timeout time that the C-More screen software on your PC uses to access the screen. I'd like to increase the time to around 300ms.