Logix Hot Backup Solutions

Using a redundant control system can help you to reduce unplanned down time caused by failures, faults or system maintenance requirements. Usually, as your down time costs increase, so do your requirements for a redundant system. Logix Redundancy offers a high performance, synchronized, high availability system able to maintain uninterrupted control over critical applications with standard hardware while remaining easy-to-use. For some systems, the requirements for redundant systems will not be quite so critical. For those applications, we offer other redundancy systems based on performance and cost. This profile summarizes the available options.

Options Requirements Controller platform support Hardware Required I/O network support IO Family Support Programming/Configuration tools ControlLogix Redundancy ControlLogix 1756-RM ControlNet 1756, 1794, 1734, 1738, 1797 RSLogix5000, RSNetworx ControlNet EtherNet/IP 1756, 1794, 1797 RSLogix5000, RSNetworx, CompactLogix hotbackup configuration tool LD, FBD, SFC, ST User Programmed 250ms or more User Initiated Edits Must be initiated in both controllers Yes, on EtherNet IP1 No Yes Maintained No HIGHAV-AT001_-EN-P
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CompactLogix Hot Backup CompactLogix ControlLogix

CompactLogix EZ Backup CompactLogix 1769-SDN DeviceNet 1794, 1734, 1738, 1790D, 1791D, 1792D,1732 RSLogix5000, RSNetworx

Programming Language editors Data synchronization Switchover time

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LD, FBD, SFC, ST Automatic Less than 20ms Automatic Edits are automatically sent to both controllers Yes Yes Yes
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LD, FBD, SFC, ST User Programmed Less than 50ms User Initiated Edits Must be initiated in both controllers No Yes Maintained No 1769-UM009X-EN-P

Program duplication for the secondary Online edits Network Address Swap for HMI Forced Status equalization Add-On instruction Output Status during Switchover Update firmware in Run mode User Manual
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Maintained Yes3 1756-UM535X-EN-P

Use the MSG instruction to swap IP addresses on switchover Consult the relevent user manual for information about switchover times 4 Redundancy System Upgrade is part of the redundancy module configuration tool Consult the relevent user manual for information

Typical Backup Configurations

CompactLogix Backup

EZ Backup

EOI EO or HMI EtherNet/IP or ControlNet Network Primary ControlLogix Chassis Secondary ControlLogix Chassis

Fiber Optic Cable

ControlNet Redundant Media

CompactLogix Backup

ControlLogix Redundancy

Publication 1756-PP014A-EN-P - January 2010

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