The Siemens S7 Discovery Agent examines a project file with a .S7P extension and finds all the Symbols and Datablocks for that project. A .S7P project file is saved from the Siemens Step 7 programming software, version 5.4.
NOTE: The Step 7 project file (.s7p) and all files associated with the Step 7 project, including all the other files in the sub-directories within the project directory, must be accessible to the Siemens S7 Discovery Agent and have the Read/Write/Modify/Full Control option enabled.
You select the Siemens Discovery Agent on the Select a Discovery Agent page of the Discovery Agent Selection Wizard.
This section tells you how to use the Discovery Agent Selection Wizard to choose the Siemens Discovery Agent and to extract database tag information from a Siemens .S7P project file. When you click the Finish button at the end of the wizard the database tag information is extracted from the selected project file, is read by the Discover and Auto Configure, and then displayed in the spreadsheet.
The following table describes the columns exclusive to the Siemens S7 Discovery Agent that are displayed in the spreadsheet.
Discovery Agent Section Columns
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Column Name |
Description |
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Name |
The name of the tag. |
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Address |
The I/O address of the tag. |
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Comment |
Descriptive information about the tag. |
|
Type |
The database tag type assigned to the tag. |
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Siemens Tag Status |
The status of each tag since it was last scanned from the .s7p project file. For more information on tag statuses, see The Discovery Agent Section in the Discover and Auto Configure Application topic. |
