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Echelon SmartServer 2.2 User Manual

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Using the SmartServer as Network Management Tool

Note: You can select two or more Modbus devices or functional blocks and view all the data
points on those devices or functional blocks in the same Overview – Data Points page; however,
the SmartServer’s performance may be impacted by trying to create large lists of objects.

3. The Overview - Data Points Web page opens.

4. By default, the Modbus data points are listed by the Start Address column in ascending order.

You can sort the data points by clicking a property header. You can view and configure the
following properties for each data point on the Modbus device:

Icon/Status

Displays the icon used to represent the Modbus data point in the
SmartServer tree and in the application frame. If the data point is offline,
this box is highlighted red.

Start Address
(Decimal)

Displays the start address of the register to be used to read or write to the
data point. If the Length property is configured to use bits, you can select
the start and stop bits in the address.

If the value of the Modbus data point does not match the expected value,
enter the data point’s physical address on the Modbus device, and verify