Introducing the Messaging Page

The Messaging page provides dynamically updated data about the open TCP connections on port 502.

Accessing the Messaging Page

Access the Messaging page from the Diagnostics menu. In the navigation menu at the left side of the page, select Diagnostics > Ethernet > Messaging.

Messaging Page Display

The Messaging page provides the following information about each active connection

Property

Description

Connection

The connection number: 1...64

Remote address

The IP address of the remote device

NOTE: If the remote device includes an embedded web server, click the Remote address value to open that server and view the remote device web pages.

Remote port

The TCP port for the connection on the remote device

Local port

The TCP port for the connection on the processor

Messages Sent

The number of messages transmitted over this connection

Messages Received

The number of messages received by this connection

Error Sent

The number of errors detected on this connection