Diagnostics

If something goes not they way you want in your automation project, these methods will help to find and remedy the cause:

• Notifications
  • Notifications of PLCnext Runtime
  • Security Notifications of PLCnext Runtime
• Log files
  • output.log
  • PLCnextapp log
• PROFINET diagnostic error codes

Additional resources for diagnostics and debugging:

• The Web-based Management provides Diagnostics pages
• Local bus diagnosis:
  • Axioline F: Diagnostic registers and error messages manual, available in the Phoenix Contact Knowledge Base (English/German).
  • INTERBUS Diagnostics Guide:
    • English
    • Chinese
    • Czech

    • French
    • German
    • Italian

    • Polish
    • Portuguese (Brazil)
    • Spanish
• For redundant systems there are redundancy error codes
• High-level languages programming errors: 
  • C++ code debugging
  • C# code debugging