Your Workbench PC records “before and after” TCP/IP settings made from Niagara platform connections in an ipchanges.bog file. If necessary, you can review changes from Workbench using the following procedures.
To review TCP/IP changes made (platform connection to any host required)
From your PC with Workbench started, and a platform connection established (to any host):
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From the main platform view, click TCP/IP Configuration.
The TCP/IP Configuration view appears.
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Click the
button at the bottom of the TCP/IP Configuration view.
The view changes to an ipchanges.bog (Folder), with expandable, date-named child subfolders.
The newest date folder is at bottom, as date-naming uses the following convention:
dfor example, “<yyyymmddhhmmss>d20120112141522” for 2012 Jan 12 2:15pm -
In the ipchanges.bog folder view, click to expand a date folder, including containers of interest.
Underneath each container are two objects:
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priorValue — TCP/IP settings that existed before this change.
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newValue — TCP/IP settings that existed after this change.
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Click to expand the newValue container to see values and children, for example Adapters, and under that container, “en0” (LAN1) or “en1” (LAN2). You typically need to scroll down after expanding items.
The example above shows a new IP address value of
192.168.1.66given to en0 (Interface 1 or LAN1), after originally connecting to it at host address192.168.1.121.
To review TCP/IP changes made (when a platform connection cannot be made)
In case you made an IP change in a platform from Workbench, but now cannot open a platform connection (to any host), you can still see the IP changes information stored on your Workbench PC. Instead of using the TCP/IP Configuration view in a platform connection, you must look at the underlying ipchanges.bog (text file) in a text editor.
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On your Workbench PC, open Windows Explorer and navigate to your NiagaraAX Workbench release folder, for example:
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Under this release folder expand “
users” and your user folder, to reveal “ipchanges.bog.” -
Use a text editor like Wordpad or Notepad++ to open
ipchanges.bog.This file is in xml format, where folder elements use the same date name (n=”<value>”) convention as that shown in the previous procedure. In the same way, child “priorValue” and “newValue” elements, and child container elements with values, can be read in your text editor.