Network diagnostic tool for Industrial Edge Devices.
To provide additional network diagnostic possibilities on Industrial Edge Devices, an Edge App can be written with a Python backend and a simple Web UI to enable user interaction.
Current feature set:
- Ping
- DNS resolution and reverse lookup
- NTP
- OPC UA browsing
- HTTP requests (GET, POST and PUT)
This guide shows how to build, install and use an Edge application with a Python-based (Flask) backend and a JavaScript-based (React) frontend. The backend is used to execute network diagnostic tools based on Python packages and expose these internally over an API, which the frontend can call.
- Access to an Industrial Edge Management System (IEM)
- Onboarded Industrial Edge Device on IEM
- Industrial Edge App Publisher
- Docker Environment
- Industrial Edge Management OS V1.5.2-4
- Industrial Edge Management App V1.10.3
- Industrial Edge Virtual Device V1.11.0-4-a
- Industrial Edge App Publisher V1.6.5
- Docker Engine 20.10.22
- Docker Compose V2.4
Please follow the installation instructions.
To use the app, click on the app icon on your Edge Device or go to https://<IED_IP>/conntest/. Use the navigation bar on the top of the page to choose a tool and use the provided input dialogs to execute them.
Type in the IP address or the domain name of the host you want to ping.
Use the top input field to obtain IP address of a domain and the bottom input field to do the reverse.
Type in the IP address or the domain name of the NTP server you want to contact.
Type in the OPC UA connection URL (e.g. opc.tcp://<IP>:<Port>). If necessary, type in the username and password for OPC UA authentication as well. Click Connect to browse the OPC UA server.
Navigate the tree view using the mouse or keyboard. Selecting a node will show detailed information such as name, address, and value. Once browsed, the connection stays open until you click the Disconnect button.
Choose the type of HTTP request to send and fill out the headers or body if required. SSL certificate verification is disabled by default. Use the Copy to Clipboard button to copy the entire HTTP response.
The headers and body input fields should contain JSON formatted strings.
Example headers:
{"Content-Type":"application/json"}
Example body:
{"data":"This is my data"}
You can find further documentation and help in the following links:
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