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B&R PLC and Automation StudioThis document guides you through the setup of proprietary vendor specificsoftware installed on you PC. Your supervisor may provide you with additional or alternative instructions.
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Prerequisites for This Guide

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1.

Ethernet Connection

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Ethernet connection via WindowsXP under VMWare

8Notices

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Prerequisites for This Guide
The following guide will assist you to setup a remote and online connection tothe B&R equipment placed on the customer site using the B&R Automation
Studio Software.
This guide concentrates on a B&R X20 1483 PLC with Ethernet, but may also
work with other Ethernet enabled B&R PLCs.
This guide refer to Automation Studio version 3.081, but other versions andother B&R software packages may also work.
Prerequisites for this guide are:

 You have an operational LinkManager installed on your PC with a LinkManager certificate that allows you to connect to the SiteManager agents.

 You have the B&R PLC and the B&R Automation Studio software installed.
 You have the B&R / Ethernet device agent installed and configured on theSiteManager at the remote site, and there is access between the SiteManager and the PLC.
If this is not the case, we kindly ask you to contact the person / department responsible within your own company or at the company responsible hereof.

System Overview
The communication path is as follows:Automation Studio  LinkManager  GateManager  SiteManager  PLC.
This guide will elaborate on the components marked with bold.

The following system overview depicts a SiteManager 3134 at the customer location.

The procedures in the following apply to any SiteManager model.

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Ethernet Connection
1. Login with your LinkManager and locate the agent that represents yourTCPI/IP attached PLC. Click the text (that turns orange at mouse over) toconnect to the PLC.

2. You will not see any activity on it yet. This only starts when you connect to thePLC via your project (Make a note of the IP address of the PLC):

Hint: You are in princple now connected to the PLC, and you could make aping to the PLC IP address.
3. Start the Automation Studio and communicate on the IP address as you would
normally have done if you were sitting in the local network with the PLC. The
following illustrates some basic screenshots:
NOTE: The Automation Studio’s network Browse function will not work via theLinkManager connection. This is due to the UDP discovery from Automation
Studio not being directed to available routes of the PC, but is done as a UDP
broadcast.

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4. Open your project in the Automation Studio, and select Online  Settings.

5. Ensure that your project’s AR010 connection is configured with the IP addressthat the LinkManager is connected to.

6. If matching the LinkManager, you can go Online on the PLC by pressing Connect:

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7. You can now also observe data traffic in the LinkManager:8. You can also try to click the globe icon.

9. This will start your default web browser for the PLC. Here you can enter immediately the HTML based Diagnostics Manager menu:

10. If you want to enter the advanced Diagnostics Manager GUI, you may haveto download the Renesis Player-Browser.msi plugin by clicking the link.

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NOTE: After installing pressing continue does not bring you the advanced
GUI, you may have an incompatibility between your browser and the SVG
plugin.
11. You also have the option to access the PLC Web GUI before you actuallyconnect to the PLC with the LinkManager. This is done by clicking the globe
icon next to the PLC in the tree view:

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2.

Ethernet connection via WindowsXP under VMWareYou can run the Automation Studio software inside a VMWare engine, to a PLC
that is Ethernet attached to a SiteManager.
Note: LinkManager must be installed on the hosting machine, and NOT inside
the VMWare Windows XP image. LinkManager cannot run inside a VMWare virtual machine.
The following illustrates VMWare Player, which can be downloaded fromhttp://www.vmware.com/support/product-support/player/
1. Locate your WindowsXP that has Automation Studio installed, and enter Editvirtual machine settings.

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2. Make sure the Network Adapter settings is set to NAT:

3. Start the VMWare engine and on the host PC start LinkManager.
4. Follow the procedure of section 1. Ethernet Connection to get access to the
PLC via LinkManager

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Notices
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