How can I use DFProfi II to monitor a Gateway ?

Hi everybody
I am a total newby to Profibus, so excuse me please, if this is a silly question:
I have a Simatic S7 400 controlling (via Profibus) a robot application on a factory floor. The profibus network also contains a gateway slave to RS-232 which communicates with a LabVIEW RT image processing system. Basically the gateway (HMS-Anybus) is nothing more than a shared memory space which can be accessed from both the Profibus- and the RS-232 side which seems to me a very simple and efficient solution.
What I would like to do in order to investigate (existing???) timing problems in the system is the following:
I have a DF-Profi II in a PXI-Rack and would like to connect this to the Profibus network and use LabVIEW to watch/log the communication between the S7 and the RS-232 over the gateway.
Is this possible? Can anybody give me a few hints how to configure the DF-Profi II? It would have to be in "master" mode, wouldn't it ??
So that would make 2 masters (S7 + DF-Profi) on the bus then?
Any little bit of information is greatly appreciated
Thanks
HU
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Hello Hurban,
in my opinion, a Multimaster Network is what you need. See also this link:
http://www.automation.siemens.com/WW/forum/guests/PostShow.aspx?PageIndex=1&PostID=160971&Language=d...
Further Information on the device you intend to use can be found on this page:
http://www.comsoft.de/de/geschaeftsbereiche/industrielle-kommunikation/produkte/profibus-produkte/ba...
Best Regards!
Moritz M.

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