Series 90 Triplex Installation Verification Procedures

About this task

The Series 90 Triplex Diagnostic Program (srtpdiag.exe) is a program provided with the Series 90 Triplex Communications enabler that you can use to check the basic operation and configuration of your network without starting CIMPLICITY software.

For this program to function, CIMPLICITY software's Series 90 Triplex Communications enabler must be successfully installed, and you must have configured the S90TRI port and Series 90 devices using CIMPLICITY application configuration functions.

  • Start the diagnostic program.
  • Connect to a Series 90 programmable controller in the S90TRI network.
  • Display data for a different domain.
  • Work in the SRTPDiag window.

Start the diagnostic program

Procedure

  1. Make sure that S90 TRIPLEX is checked on the General tab in the Project Properties dialog box.
  2. Select Project>Equipment>Diagnostics in the Workbench left-pane.
  3. Double-click Series 90 Diagnostic.

    Result: The SRTPDiag window  opens.

    Connect to a Series 90 programmable controller in the S90TRI network:

  4. Click the drop-down list button to the right of the Device field to display the list of currently configured devices, and select a Series 90 Triplex device from the list.
  5. Click the drop-down list button to the right of the Port field to display the list of currently configured ports, and select the S90TRI port to use.
  6. Click the drop-down list button to the right of the Domain field to display the list of currently supported domains (memory types), and select a domain to display.
  7. Click Connect.

Results

The program makes the connection with the programmable controller, and displays the values contained in the requested domain.

Display the data for another domain:

Select the domain from the drop-down list in the Domain input field.

Result:The data for the new domain is automatically read and displayed in the data box.

You can use the menus and push buttons to do the following:

  • Toggle between manual and automatic data update modes.
  • Request manual reads of domain data
  • Request writes to the programmable controller
  • Display programmable controller status
  • Perform a read load test
  • Perform a write load test

Work in the SRTPDiag window

  • Toggle between data update modes.
  • Request manual reads of domain data
  • Write test data to the programmable controller.
  • Check Series 90 Triplex status.
  • Perform a read load test.
  • Perform a write load test.
  • Series 90 TCP/IP supported memory types.