Commissioning view

Safety: use a test relay or a test server on a test network only, never a relay in service. Read only an IED you are allowed to read during commissioning.

State: verified read only against libiec61850 1.6.2 example servers on Linux (a server built from a commissioning sample CID, and server_example_setting_groups), with tshark 4.4.9 dissecting the whole read session without a malformed packet. Not run against any relay or vendor server, and not on Windows.

The view only reads: it sends MMS Read requests and nothing else. Operating a point, changing the mode or simulation, and selecting or editing a setting group stay with the vendor tool or the station HMI (see What's next).

Open the view

1. Connect to the IED (see Connect to an IED).
2. Run Show Relay Commissioning View... and pick the IED.
3. The <IED> Commissioning tab says it is read only and has three sections.

Relay State

• Mod (mode), Beh (behaviour) and Health of the logical devices and nodes;
• the control model (ctlModel) of each controllable object, such as sbo-with-enhanced-security or status-only;
• LPHD.Sim (simulation).

Test mode and simulation are highlighted, and a status bar warning ("... in test/simulation") lists every IED last read in a test or test-blocked mode or in simulation from this window. The warning goes when you disconnect.

Measured Values

Every MX data object of MMXU, MSQI and similar logical nodes, including the phases of a WYE, DEL or SEQ, with magnitude, quality, time and the unit (with multiplier) from the SCL file. Read on demand, or tick Auto-refresh measured values to read again every few seconds.

Setting Groups

The setting group control block (SGCB): the number of groups (NumOfSG), the active group (ActSG), the edit group (EditSG), CnfEdit and LActTm.

Compare Setting Groups with SCL reads the active group's live values (FC SG) and shows them against the SCL file per setting, with the SCL value and the relay value side by side and differing rows marked. Only the active group is read: reading another group needs an edit selection, which is a write.

Try it against server_example_setting_groups: the view shows DEMOPROT: 5 setting groups, active group 1, edit group 0, and the compare lists the active group's settings against sg_demo.cid.

Limits

• Mode and health names follow the IEC 61850-7-4 ordinals, not the file's own enumeration.
• Dbpos, complex and other measured forms beyond mag.f and cVal.mag.f are shown as the device sent them.
• The live domain is named IEDname+ldInst; an ldName override is not matched.

Not verified

• Any relay or vendor server; Windows.