Remote Devices via Proxy Service
Remote Devices via Proxy Service
allows FactoryTalk Linx on one computer to bridge through a central FactoryTalk Linx Gateway Professional workstation on the network to communicate with automation system devices on a different network. FactoryTalk Linx Gateway Professional must be installed on the central computer acting as the bridge, enabled with a Professional activation and configured to enable the Remote Proxy Service. Additionally, the FactoryTalk Linx Network Browser running on the central gateway workstation must have drivers configured to locate the desired automation devices, either on the same network or a separate network. The FactoryTalk Linx Network Browser on each remote engineering or maintenance workstation can then configure a driver using the Remote Devices via Proxy Service
selection and bind it to a driver on the central gateway. Each driver can view, browse, and navigate the network topology from the gateway and go online with the device using the gateway as a bridge. This proxy service eliminates the need to configure similar drivers on multiple computers and makes the gateway driver configuration changes immediately visible to all remote computers.
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When a shortcut is configured to pass through a FactoryTalk Linx Gateway Proxy Server to PLC-5 or SLC-500 controllers directly connected to Ethernet, the controller’s tags cannot be browsed, read or written. However, tags can be accessed if the path to the PLC-5 and SLC500 controllers is routed from EtherNet/IP across a ControlLogix chassis through a 1756-DHRIO module.
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