Crawling Logix I/O Trees?

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

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

Oh wait.

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.

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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PreLC said:

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.

Click to expand...

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 (!)

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.