Rockwell Automation T3831 ICS Regent Communications Package for Winterpret - Manual (Page 11)

Communications Package for W INTERPRET (T3831)
P D - 6 0 4 1 M a r c h , 0 6
11
Configuring the Guarded Peer-Link
Configuration Planning
The Guarded Peer-Link Definitions Dialog is accessed from
the Project Selector Window’s Definitions Menu. Before you
use this command you should perform the following activities.
1) Define all Projects
Each Regent to be connected using Guarded Peer-Link
communications must be defined as a project using
W
INTERPRET .
2) Configure the serial ports
For each Regent, configure the serial ports that will be
used for Guarded Peer-Link communications. For each leg
of the Guarded Peer-Link, one Regent will be configured
with a Net Master port and the other Regents will be
configured with a Net Slave port.
3) Identify the GPL variables provided by each Regent
Each variable that a Regent will provide to one or more
other Regents must be already be defined in the providing
Regent’s I/O or shared variable definitions.
4) Identify the GPL variables received by each Regent
Each GPL variable that a Regent will receive from another
Regent must be defined in the receiving Regent’s I/O or
shared variable definitions. In the receiving Regent’s I/O
or shared variable definition the variable must be defined
using the exact same tag name the variable is named in
the providing Regent.