Device Properties dialog box, General tab settings

Used to configure the name of the device. This name must be unique to the entire network. You can accept the default name, or you can assign a unique name to the device.

For example, if you add a 1756-ENBT/A bridge device to an Ethernet network and you accept the default name, the device will display below the driver as

IP address

,

1756-ENBT/A

,

1756-ENBT/A

. If you assign a unique name to the device, it will display below the driver as

IP address

,

1756-ENBT/A

,

uniquename

.

The IP address of the device's connection to a network. When you add a device manually (as opposed to discovering it by browsing),

FactoryTalk Linx

automatically assigns addresses to its ports. An incoming port is assigned an address from the low end of its network's address range. An outgoing port is assigned an address from the high end of its network's address range.

Tip:

Incoming slot numbers and port addresses are displayed on the communications tree. Outgoing slot numbers and port addresses do not appear on the communications tree. However, you can display these properties by right-clicking on the appropriate outgoing port's network (shown beneath the device in the communications tree).

The slot number of the device's position in the backplane. When you manually add a device that sits in a backplane (as opposed to discovering it by browsing),

FactoryTalk Linx

automatically assigns it a slot number. If this is the incoming port, the slot number is assigned from the low end of the range. Slot numbers for outgoing ports are auto-assigned starting from the high end of the range.

Note, however, that the slot number that

FactoryTalk Linx

assigns to the device may conflict with the actual (or desired) layout of the backplane system. It is important to select the slot number that corresponds to the physical layout.

If a browse does not display the expected results on the backplane, the device's slot address property is probably incorrect. When you browse a network that contains a bridge device, right-click on the bridge device itself and browse it. This determines the bridge device's slot address in the backplane system, and you will then see the expected results when you browse the backplane.

Used to enable or inhibit data communication of a device in

FactoryTalk Administration Console

or

FactoryTalk View Studio

.

In

RSLinx Enterprise

v5.90.00 (CPR 9 SR 9) and later (renamed with

FactoryTalk Linx

version 6.00.00), data communication inhibit or enable can only support

Logix 5000

controller.