Crawling Logix I/O Trees?

[Geoff White]

Relevant XKCD
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/automation.png

 

[JeremyM]

^ only relevant in Rockwell World when documentation and APIs are lackluster.

Oh wait.

 

[JeremyM]

I'm not much closer to the solution I'm hunting, but when my Port crawler is pointed at various types of devices (1756-ENxT, 1756-L8x, 5069-L3xx, 5069-AENT, 1734-AENTR, PanelView Plus 7 Performance & Standard etc.), some really interesting information is revealed about them and how they do CIP.

 

[JeremyM]

For what it's worth, here's the numbers and types of CIP ports from different devices.

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1734-AENTR:

PortNumber: 1
PortType: 100
PortName: "Backplane"
TypeName: "Backplane"

PortNumber: 2
PortType: 4
PortName: "EtherNet/IP Port"
TypeName: "EtherNet/IP"

PortNumber: 3
PortType: 5
PortName: "PointBus Port"
TypeName: "DeviceNet"

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1756-ENxT:

PortNumber: 1
PortType: 1
PortName: "Backplane"
TypeName: "Backplane"

PortNumber: 2
PortType: 4
PortName: "A"
TypeName: "EtherNet/IP"

PortNumber: 3
PortType: 107
PortName: "PCviaUSB"
TypeName: "PCviaUSB"

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1756-L8x:

PortNumber: 1
PortType: 1
PortName: "Backplane"
TypeName: "Backplane"

PortNumber: 2
PortType: 4
PortName: "A"
TypeName: "EtherNet/IP"

PortNumber: 3
PortType: 107
PortName: "PCviaUSB"
TypeName: "PCviaUSB"

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5069-L3xx (Dual IP):

PortNumber: 1
PortType: 109
PortName: "Backplane"
TypeName: "Backplane"

PortNumber: 3
PortType: 4
PortName: "A1"
TypeName: "EtherNet/IP"

PortNumber: 4
PortType: 4
PortName: "A2"
TypeName: "EtherNet/IP"

PortNumber: 5
PortType: 107
PortName: "PCviaUSB"
TypeName: "PCviaUSB"

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5069-L3xx (DLR):

PortNumber: 1
PortType: 109
PortName: "Backplane"
TypeName: "Backplane"

PortNumber: 2
PortType: 4
PortName: "A1/A2"
TypeName: "EtherNet/IP"

PortNumber: 5
PortType: 107
PortName: "PCviaUSB"
TypeName: "PCviaUSB"

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PanelView Plus 7 Performance:

PortNumber: 1
PortType: 100
PortName: "Backplane"
TypeName: "Backplane"

PortNumber: 2
PortType: 4
PortName: "Ethernet"
TypeName: "EtherNet/IP"

PortNumber: 3
PortType: 4
PortName: "Ethernet 2"
TypeName: "EtherNet/IP"

PortNumber: 5
PortType: 4
PortName: "Ethernet 4"
TypeName: "EtherNet/IP"

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PanelView Plus 7 Standard:

PortNumber: 1
PortType: 100
PortName: "Backplane"
TypeName: "Backplane"

PortNumber: 2
PortType: 4
PortName: "Ethernet"
TypeName: "EtherNet/IP"

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[jdbrandt]

Not sure if this is what you want, but Rockwell has a service called the system ferret tool(Free but erased from AB's downloads), or more recently the AssetInventory addon in Assetcentre. They can crawl your CIP network and create a list.

I use System Ferret whenever I can.

It has even found rogue devices and unofficial cross-connections from non Subnet switches.

Take that, expensive software (!)

 

[JeremyM]

To add to the port discovery above, ArmorBlocks (1732E-) don't appear to use CIP ports. Guard ArmorBlocks might, so I can find another unit to test with.