Displaying Operating States of Hirschmann Switches

Overview

System monitoring lets you obtain information about operating states of Hirschmann switches by using the diagnostic engine. The engine sends requests to their IP address and monitors responses.

The state of the device is indicated by a diagnostic icon in the physical view in which the device appears.

NOTE: Use the indication of the operating state for commissioning only as it does not replace the use of proper system monitoring.

Detection Method

The diagnostic engine that runs on the computer acting as Control Expert server sends Modbus TCP requests to Hirschmann switches by using the IP address of their embedded interface to obtain information about their state.

NOTE: The detection of device incompatibility or mismatch is not supported for Hirschmann switches.

States Indicated by Diagnostic Icons

The table describes which operating state can be represented on Hirschmann switches in a physical view and the icon that is used. Its description is indicated in a tooltip.

Icon	Description	Device state description
	Not fully operational⁽¹⁾. Blue diamond.	The value of at least one of the Port [1..X] Link Status registers = 0 (where X is the number of ports that the switch is equipped with).
(1) Implies that the device is reachable and responded.

NOTE: For more information, refer to the manual of the switch.