Diagnostics And Maintenance; Diagnostics Options - Siemens SIMATIC S7-400 Operating Instructions Manual

Diagnostics and maintenance

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Diagnostics options

The following diagnostics options are available:
LEDs of the module
For information on the LED displays, refer to the section LEDs (Page 25).
Based on the LEDs, you can identify different problems on the CP.
Diagnostics via SNMP with SINEMA Server
With a network management system, for example "SINEMA Server" (does not ship with the
product), you can read out diagnostics data from the CP using SNMP MIBs.
You will find details of the SNMP functions supported by the CP and MIBs in the section
SNMP (Page 120).
For the manual of SINEMA Server see /5/ (Page 134).
STEP 7 V5
The known diagnostics tools of STEP 7 are available to you.
STEP 7 Professional
● The "Diagnostics" tab in the Inspector window
Here, you can obtain the following information on the selected module:
– Information on the online status of the module
● Diagnostics functions in the "Online > Online and diagnostics" menu
Here, you can obtain static information on the selected module:
– General information on the module
– Diagnostics status
– Information on the Ethernet interface
– Security (with security enabled)
You can obtain further information on the diagnostics functions of STEP 7 in the STEP 7
online help.
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