ADC Community_02 (Automationdirect.com) asked a question.

Edited October 21, 2020 at 4:18 PM
Productivity Suite V3.8 Software Release

We are pleased to announce the release of Productivity Suite 3.8 featuring a PLC Simulator and StrideLinx Secure VPN Integration.

 

https://www.automationdirect.com/support/software-downloads#

 

The PLC Simulator provides a means to emulate parts of the Productivity Series hardware including:

 

P3000 CPUs and local bases

P2000 CPUs and local bases

P1000 CPUs and local I/O stack

All basic I/O modules, both analog and digital

 

StrideLinx Secure VPN Integration makes connecting to remote PLCs using StrideLinx routers a cinch. Once configured, Productivity CPUs connected through StrideLinx VPN routers are easily selectable from within Productivity Suite’s CPU Connections dialog.

 

https://community.automationdirect.com/s/article/FAQ-StrideLinx-Integration-into-Productivity-Suite 

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  • kewakl (Customer)

    Tested ONE aspect of the simulator.

    It successfully wrote a bit to a P3-550 CPU to start a process.

     

    Now, how to protect against attacks/accidents?

    • z28z34man (Customer)

      This is a good reminder about taking security in to mind when creating a project.

       

      probably the best we can do is keep modbus registers to a minimum an use the strictest subnet mask we can to limit traffic or better yet is managed switches set up to only allow though what is necessary.

      • kewakl (Customer)

        >This is a good reminder about taking security in to mind when creating a project.

        Thank you!

         

        I have very few projects in which I have assigned Modbus Addresses to internals.

        It is a trivial task to create a program/script to emulate the PxK protocol - to read/write ANY(*) existing SysID in the PAC's address space. -- I will not discuss the details.

         

         

        (*) considering the R/W properties of the respective SysId

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      • z28z34man (Customer)

        Interesting, I never really thought about it but there has to be a API for the PxK for things like HMIs to work. With out actually trying it I wonder if it could be reverse engineered from wire shark captures for any major PLC manufacture.

      • kewakl (Customer)

        I have questioned this. I would (for a reasonable price) BUY a license that would allow me (or others here) to write PC apps to do this very thing. I really am not satisfied with the Dataworx implementation / application.

        ( We purchased Bizware's VB6 app in 2010. I know it was VB6, because ThunderRT6FormDC and the various runtime-errors that were not handled by the software, the server-crash if I try to get the server's error log and monitor-app-hang if I let the Monitor attempt to start the Server )

        My whole Bizware experience has left me wanting. I am not interested in throwing any more money their way.

         

         

        ThunderRT6FormDCErrorLog ErrorDWX Monitor AppHang 

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  • kewakl (Customer)

    The "What's New" for 3.8.0.4 has an image of 3.7.0.4 with the [Simulator] button.😜

 

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