Redundancy with a Single Citect HMI

HI, I have a question as it relates to redundancy. I have upgraded a project that previously had a local and remote HMI and was configured with the appropriate primary and secondary computers, IO servers, alarms servers, and trend servers in a single cluster.

However, they have opted to remove the second HMI, leaving only one. The control device I am communicating to (Micronet) has two CPUs, and I want to be able to communicate to the second controller if the first one goes down. I only have one ethernet port on the HMI though, so I'm wondering if it is possible to configure two data paths from that single port. I tried a few different configurations that I thought would work: adding a the secondary IO server to the primary computer (threw an error about the IO server needing a unique IP address) and adding a secondary device to the Primary IO server (also threw an error about the standby device needing a primary on the same cluster--not sure this error makes sense to me).

Any thoughts as to if this is possible and where I am going wrong on the configuration?

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  • Hi Joe,
    Apologies for the delayed reply. I forgot to hit enter on previously typed message! Doh.
    The behaviour you are seeing is not expected. It should switch back to the primary when it is available. Double check the status of the Channel (TCPIP connection) in the Kernel on the IOServer. Can you ping PLC1? I'm not familiar with the data status "PENDING", would this be related to scheduled IO? Sounds strange. I'd be happy to review your communications config if you direct message me with details.
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  • Hi Joe,
    Apologies for the delayed reply. I forgot to hit enter on previously typed message! Doh.
    The behaviour you are seeing is not expected. It should switch back to the primary when it is available. Double check the status of the Channel (TCPIP connection) in the Kernel on the IOServer. Can you ping PLC1? I'm not familiar with the data status "PENDING", would this be related to scheduled IO? Sounds strange. I'd be happy to review your communications config if you direct message me with details.
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