WinCC Flexible RT 2008 connection problem

[MartinW]

Hi,

I have a WinCC Flexible 2008 project. It is configured as a PC RT. If I use the Runtime on my laptop (development environment) it works fine; communicates to PLC, displays values etc as you would expect.

However, I have installed WinCC Flexible 2008 RT including the licences onto another PC and the project starts but there are just ## where all the values should be, and I don't see the pop-up window which says whether the connection was successful or not.

I can ping the PLC from the PC so actual connectivity shouldn't be an issue.

The PLCs are all on the schema 10.96.25.xxx whereas all the PCs (including my laptop) are on 10.96.17.yyy. If the problem was the different IP schema then why does my laptop work ok?

I have ethernet enabled as channel 2 and I can send the project from my laptop to the target PC with no problem, but for some reason the thing doesn't want to communicate with the PLC?

Is this a Netpro thing? I don't know much about Netpro! :-( In Netpro there is no line from the WinCC to the CPU.

CPU is a 317-2 dp/pn.

Thanks,

Martin

 

[userxyz]

Pg/pc

Check PG/PC interface. Set it on TCP/IP.

Too see if there is a connection, place an alarm window and set System Alarms on. Then you can see what happens.

Hi,

I have a WinCC Flexible 2008 project. It is configured as a PC RT. If I use the Runtime on my laptop (development environment) it works fine; communicates to PLC, displays values etc as you would expect.

However, I have installed WinCC Flexible 2008 RT including the licences onto another PC and the project starts but there are just ## where all the values should be, and I don't see the pop-up window which says whether the connection was successful or not.

I can ping the PLC from the PC so actual connectivity shouldn't be an issue.

The PLCs are all on the schema 10.96.25.xxx whereas all the PCs (including my laptop) are on 10.96.17.yyy. If the problem was the different IP schema then why does my laptop work ok?

I have ethernet enabled as channel 2 and I can send the project from my laptop to the target PC with no problem, but for some reason the thing doesn't want to communicate with the PLC?

Is this a Netpro thing? I don't know much about Netpro! :-( In Netpro there is no line from the WinCC to the CPU.

CPU is a 317-2 dp/pn.

Thanks,

Martin

 

[MartinW]

Hi,

Thanks for your quick reply. However on the target PC all that is installed in WinCC Flex runtime - so no PG/PC interface to use?

Thanks,

Martin

 

[userxyz]

Pg/pc

When installing WinCC Flexible, PG/PC interface is installed as well. Go to configuration panel and set the interface right so that Flexible know wich protocol it must use.

Hi,

Thanks for your quick reply. However on the target PC all that is installed in WinCC Flex runtime - so no PG/PC interface to use?

Thanks,

Martin

 

[MartinW]

ok, I was a dumba$$, I finally found PG/PC interface in control panel!

doh!

 

[userxyz]

np

np

ok, I was a dumba$$, I finally found PG/PC interface in control panel!

doh!