NETILITIES – PROFINET diagnostic and engineering tool
Netilities is a compact and efficient tool to support the user with his PROFINET engineering and troubleshooting tasks. It generates a live list of the PROFINET/Ethernet network and spots the devices which are in Data Exchange. Statistics provide an overview of the network condition. It utilizes the standard Ethernet/WLAN port on the PC or interfaces with a ProfiTap.
Info fields are displayed to inform the user on actual network problems, like: device missing, double device names, double IP addresses, etc. The Statistics provide an overview over the cycle times, corrupted telegrams, data size, etc. Netilities is also used to set Device Names and IP addresses and export the detected devices to CSV. The LED test feature can visualize the targeted PROFINET device.
The best performance of Netilities is achieved when the laptop is directly connected to the mirror port of a switch which is installed directly behind the PLC or other controller. The licensing and software storage is handled by a USB dongle. The dongle can be used on multiple PCs.
Features:
- Realtime scan / Live List of the complete network
- Info panel for network problems (device missing, double addresses, etc.)
- Statistics (cycle times, corrupted telegrams, data size, etc.)
- Setting Device Names and IP numbers
- Topology scan based on SNMP
- PROFINET LED test
- Suitable for other Ethernet systems
Downloads: Netilities manual
Downloads: Netilities quick start
Downloads: Netilities report-example
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ProfiTap Industrial – PROFINET Monitoring Interface
The monitor port of switches is unreliable for monitoring; it can be occupied or is not forwarding all traffic. The load on the Ethernet port of the laptop is also too high with IRT applications because 2 channels are merged in one. The ProfiTap has a USB link with the laptop that streams the captured messages to the accompanying driver, which emulates an additional Ethernet port on the laptop and hands the messages over to any application.
The ProfiTap also prevents the laptop to send out messages on its own initiative, which could jeopardize the real-time behaviour and security of the network.
Features:
- Usable for most PROFINET/Ethernet monitoring tools
- No loss of messages
- Time stamped messages
- Does not endanger the real-time behaviour
- No security hazards
- Is not visible for switches/devices
- Grounding concept is not disturbed
- Driver works on XP, Vista and Window 7 platforms
Downloads: ProfiTap manual
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