General information on a slave
(Original Document)
At a Glance
For each slave, the following general information can be read by the TSX PBY 100 module using the SEND_REQ function.
Designation
Size
Description
Configured
byte
the slave has been configured according to Profibus DPconfiguration
Operating
byte
the slave has been initialized and is running correctly
Number of %IW
word
total size of input data in the %IW zone
Number of %QW
word
total size of output data in the %QW zone
Size of input data
byte
total size of input data on Profibus
Size of output data
byte
total size of output data on Profibus
Size of diagnostics data
byte
total size of the last received diagnostics
Compressed diagnostics
byte
compressed diagnostics data for this slave
Diagnostics counter
Byte table
total number of diagnostics messages received from the slaves, one byte per slave (the size is always 126 bytes, byte n corresponds to slave address n)
Exchange counter
Byte table
total number of communication faults between the master and his slaves, one byte per slave (the size is always 126 bytes. Byte n corresponds to slave address n)
Downtime counter
Byte table
number of times when this slave is present but unavailable (the size is always 125 bytes, byte 0 corresponds to device 1 and byte 124 to device 125)
Invalid response counter
Byte table
number of invalid responses for this slave (the size is always 125 bytes, byte 0 corresponds to device 1 and byte 124 to device 125)