Connecting to an Industrial Network

 

This section details procedures for establishing the communications link between the Catalyst RTU and an industrial network.

 

The Catalyst currently supports the Modbus, ModbusTCP or EtherNet/IP protocols. There is also a simple ASCII protocol, called Local Data Logging protocol (LDL). This is used only for connections with logging terminals and printers.

 

The general steps for connecting the RTU to an industrial network are as follows: