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Can we monitor the connection status of produced/consumed tags in Standard applications?

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Connection status was first available for GuardLogix tags associated with Safety I/O.

From version 17 of the RSLogix 5000 software, status information can be included with produced and consumed
tags with Standard applications. In order to take advantage of this enhancement, the Produced/Consumed (P/C) tag
will need to be a User Defined Type (UDT) with the first member being of data type CONNECTION_STATUS .

Note: RSNetWorx for ControlNet software, version 9.00.00 or later is required when scheduling a ControlNet
network that has Produced/Consumed tags with status. Also the Producer Controller and Consumer
Controllers both need firmware revision 17 or higher.

Then there will be two BOOL bits in the status for each controller... below is a short description for how each works:

Producer Controller Tags

My_Produced_Tag.Connection_Status.RunMode

This is a 1 when the Producer is in Run mode.

This is a 0 when the Producer is in Program mode.

My_Produced_Tag.Connection_Status.ConnectionFaulted

This bit appears to remains 0 at all times.

Consumer Controller Tags

My_Consumed_Tag.Connection_Status.RunMode

This is a 1 when the Producer is in Run mode.

This is a 0 when the Producer is in Program mode.

My_Consumed_Tag.Connection_Status.ConnectionFaulted

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This is a 0 when the Producer connection is good, regardless of its mode.

This is a 1 when the Producer Connection is broken.

In general the controller will declare any scheduled I/O connection including Produced\Consumed tags bad if it does
not here the correct response after the greater of 100mS or 4 times the RPI.

Important

Using AADvance 9110 firmware release 1.34 or earlier, there is an issue with Produce/Consume with Status.

In RSLogix V19, when setting a consumed tag that is configured for status the firmware is not sending out a forward
open that would open a connection with status (ONLY using the generic profile). We see this in the backplane
and ethernet trace. That is why V19 appears to work with Produce/Consume with status. It is NOT
Produce/Consume with status.

In V20 when setting a consume tag that is configured for status the firmware is sending out a forward open that
would open a connection with status (ONLY using the generic profile). We see this in an ethernet trace. We then
see the AADvance controller error the forward open. It does not understand the forward open. The changes came
out of the EDS/AOP feature in V20.

For AADvance processor firmware 1.34 or earlier, use just a standard P/C connection.

The issue is fixed with AADance processor firmware 1.40, and Produce/Consume with Status connections may be
used.

Important: There is known anomaly in all AADvance released firmware that have CIP implementation, including
release 1.31, where standard consumed tags defined in AADvance controller from ControlLogix redundant systems
will stop update for the duration of the switchover, until the system is in qualified state again. This is corrected in
AADvance firmware release 1.33.

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