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The MBTCP Communication Driver is a Microsoft Windows application program that acts as a communications protocol server. It allows other Windows application programs access to data in the Modicon-family of controllers (also referred to as devices), including the TSX Premium, TSX Quantum, and TSX Momentum that are connected to the Communication Driver through the computers’ Ethernet ports using the Modbus TCP/IP protocol.

This Communication Driver is hosted by the OI Server Manager, a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in, which is a part of the Operations Control Management Console (OCMC) suite of utilities. Many high-level functions and user-interface elements of the OI Server Manager are universal to all Communication Drivers, and only the documentation for the OI Server Manager contains descriptions of those universal functions/UI elements. Therefore, reading the documentation for both the MMC and the OI Server Manager is critical to understanding this user’s guide. To read the documentation about the MMC and OI Server Manager, right-click the OI Server Manager icon and select the Help menu. Both the MMC Help and the Communication Drivers Pack Help are displayed.

The shortcut menu items described in this document typically represent only a subset of any actual shortcut menu. Most items in each shortcut menu are standard Windows commands. For more information about those commands, please see Help, by right-clicking the Operations Control Management Console icon.

This section describes the following:

• Generic modbus controllers

• Supported Client Protocols

• Supported device protocols