Supported Protocols

EtherNet/IP: TCP/IP and Modbus/TCP

Intravue is only useful when all target devices support TCP/IP on IP V4, and particularly where the intervening devices such as routers and switches support SNMP.

The two primary industrial automation protocols which satisfy this requirement are Modbus/TCP and Ethernet/IP.

SNMP information and provide full topology (specially as devices in these networks are connected in a daisy-chain manner).

 

PROFINET

Profinetis an industry technical standard for data communication over Industrial Ethernet, designed for collecting data from, and controlling, equipment in industrial systems, with a particular strength in delivering data under tight time constraints (on the order of 1ms or less). devices will also get discovered, monitored, and IntraVUE™ will be able to provide topology information through the use of the LLDPThe Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is a vendor-neutral link layer protocol in the Internet Protocol Suite used by network devices for advertising their identity, capabilities, and neighbors on an IEEE 802 local area network, principally wired Ethernet. LLDP is formalized in the IEEE 802.1AB standard. LLDP does advertise the hostname, management IP Address, port name an description. protocol.

LLDP Loop Detection

A misconfiguration in your network, equipment, or cabling may result in a loop. When this happens IntraVUE™ will draw a line between the two devices having the loop as curved gray line. If you click on that gray line it will show where are packets being sent from and to. The loop will continue remain active until something causes a device in the "loop" to move (i.e. depending on which device(s) move, the loop will disappear accordingly).

LLDP is enabled by default. There will be times were you would want to disable LLDP to prevent it from moving. You can disable LLDP on a device by enabling the Edit Mode option "Disable All SNMP Requests" for that device. See Device Configure - SNMP

 

Not Supported

The only exclusive 'Ethernet' only IA protocols such as EtherCat, Powerlink, Sercos, all use characteristics of their networks which IntraVUE™ is not set to measure, and so trying to use Intravue for fault diagnosis, discovery, and documentation is harder to do.