# 14.3 IEC 60870-5-101 Slave ### Configuring datapoints (slave) The IEC 60870-5-101 Slave in WCC Lite has to be configured in Excel. This configuration contains two Excel sheets where parameters must be filled in *Devices* and *Signals.* ##### *IEC 60870-5-101 slave parameters for Devices tab*

**Parameter	**Type	**Description	**Required	Default value (when not specified)	Range
**Parameter	**Type	**Description	**Required	Default value (when not specified)	Min	Max
name	string	User-friendly name for a device	Yes
description	string	Description of a device	No
device\_alias	string	Alphanumeric string to identify a device	Yes
enable	boolean	Enabling/disabling of a device	No	1	0	1
protocol	string	Protocol to be used	Yes		IEC 60870-5-101 slave
device	string	Communication port	Yes		PORT1	PORT2
baudrate	integer	Communication speed (bauds/s)	No	9600	300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, 115200
databits	integer	Data bit count for communication	No	8	6	9
stopbits	integer	Stop bit count for communication	No	1	1	2
parity	string	Communication parity option	No	none	none, even, odd
flowcontrol	string	Number of requests, before the link is considered lost (device status signals are changed) and reconnect attempt will be issued	No	none	none
link\_address	integer	Destination address when in transmit and source address when broadcasting	Yes		0	65535
link\_size	integer	Link address size in bytes	No	1	1	2
asdu\_size	integer	Common address size in bytes	No	1	1	2
ioa\_size	integer	Information object address (IOA) size in bytes	No	2	1	3
cot\_size	integer	Cause of transmission (COT) size in bytes	No	1	1	2
time\_sync	boolean	Allow time synchronization, 1 to enable and 0 to disable	Yes		0	1
message\_size	integer	Maximum length of a message	No	253	0	255
cache\_size	integer	Maximum number of events to store in a buffer	No	100	0	1000
respond\_delay	integer	Time in microseconds to wait before sending responses	No	100	0	1000000
single\_byte\_ack	boolean	Use single character acknowledge, 1 to enable and 0 to disable	No	0	0	1
keep\_alive\_timeout	integer	Time interval in seconds before serial connection is considered offline	No	60

**keep\_alive\_timeout** timer is used for the connection tracker to display protocol status. This parameter does not affect protocol functionality and only tracks its status in the connection tracker. ##### IEC 60870-5-101 slave parameters for Signals tab

**Parameter	**Type	**Description	**Required	Default value (when not specified)	Range
**Parameter	**Type	**Description	**Required	Default value (when not specified)	Min	Max
signal\_name	string	User-friendly signal name	Yes
device\_alias	string	Alphanumeric string to identify a device	Yes
signal\_alias	string	Unique alphanumeric name of the signal to be Yes used	Yes
source\_device\_alias	string	device\_alias of a source device	For commands
source\_signal\_alias	string	signal\_alias of a source signal	For commands
enable	boolean	Enabling/disabling of an individual signal	No	1	0	1
log	integer	Allow signal to be logged. If the log is 0, the signal will not be logged. If the log is more than 0, the signal will be logged	No	0
gi	boolean	Including/excluding (1 or 0) signals from General Interrogation	No	0	0	1
common\_address	integer	Address of a destination device	Yes
info\_address	integer	Information object address	Yes
data\_type	integer	ASDU type identifier	Yes		1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63
periodic\_update\_ms	integer	Signal value is published periodically according to the value set.	No	-	-

##### Device status signals

IEC 60870-5-101 has an additional signal which can be configured to show communication status. It indicates if the master device has disconnected from the slave (WCC Lite). To configure such signal for IEC 60870-5-101 protocol, job\_todo and tag\_job\_todo fields with string values are required. For IEC 60870-5-101 slave required parameters for status, signal will be **signal\_name** **device\_alias, signal\_alias, common\_address, info\_address, data\_type, job\_todo** and **tag\_job\_todo**. Job\_todo value must be *device\_status* and for tag\_job\_todo there are 4 variations: communication\_status, device\_running, device\_error, uknown\_error. Each signal has 4 possible values and is based on the same logic. If the signal returns the value of 0, it means an unknown error has appeared, 1 – the device or protocol connection is on and working properly, 2 – the device is off or protocol is disconnected, and 3 – the error or service is down. ### Debugging an IEC 60870-5-101 slave application If the configuration for IEC 60870-5-101 devices is set up, the handler for the protocol will start automatically. If the configuration is missing parameters or contains errors, the protocol will not start. It is done intentionally to decrease unnecessary memory usage. If IEC 60870-5-101 does not work properly (e.g. no communication between devices, data is corrupted, etc.), a user can launch a debug session from the command-line interface and find out why the link is not functioning properly. To launch a debugging session, a user should stop the *iec101-slave* process and run the *iec101-slave* command with respective flags as shown in the table below. Procedure for IEC 60870-5-101 slave service debugging: - **Step 1**: Service must be stopped by entering the following command into the WCC Lite: ``` /etc/init.d/iec101-slave stop ``` - **Step 2**: After the service is stopped it must be started with the preferred configuration file (JSON files found in /etc/ folder) and a debug level 7: ``` iec101-slave -c /etc/iec101-slave/iec101-slave.json -d7 ``` Additional output forming options are described here: Command line arguments. - **Step 3**: Once the problem is diagnosed normal operations can be resumed with the following command: ``` /etc/init.d/iec101-slave start ``` ##### IEC 60870-5-101 command line debugging options ``` -h [ –help ] Display help information

-V [ –version ] Show version

-d Set debugging level

-c [ –config ] Config path

-e [ –redis ] Show redis debug information ```