The DANEO 400 is hybrid signal and network analyzer. Its advanced measurement and recording capabilities are essential for testing, commissioning and troubleshooting digital substations.
With software version V5.00, new features and improvements have been implemented in the DANEO Control software. The most important of these are:
Routable GOOSE (R-GOOSE) Support
All existing DANEO 400 functions such as verification, observation, supervision and recording now support R-GOOSE messages. This allows you to view all protocol details, statistics and data values, and to map attributes as binary signals for further processing and recording.
In Depth Network Redundancy Testing
View PRP trailer and HSR header information for GOOSE and Sampled Values (SV) to verify correct configuration and behavior of network redundancy architectures (i.e. RedBox, QuadBox functions). With automatic detection and documentation in a test report, you can identify issues such as missing PRP trailers and HSR headers, or incorrect IED cabling. This prevents messages from being published to the wrong LAN or in the wrong direction in the HSR ring.
Use DANEO 400 as PTP Grandmaster
You can set a DANEO 400 as a PTP TimeTransmitter and configure it according to your application. This is especially useful when time synchronization is required but a PTP clock is not available. In addition, there are more PTP configuration settings and a new supervisor event for changes in the PTP Grandmaster Clock Class, which enables triggered recording during PTP time synchronization tests.
Extended Merging Unit (MU) Troubleshooting
Work more efficiently with new capabilities for testing SV quality and MU synchronization issues. Now you can trigger recording of quality issues by quality data attributes mapped to binary signals and by a new supervisor event for MU synchronization status changes.
Flexible Network Traffic Recording
Select easily what you want to capture in your PCAP file with new features and improved configuration options for network traffic recording. You can record GOOSE, R-GOOSE, and SV messages with filter options for MAC and IP addresses, custom network protocols, or all traffic on a network port.
Sampled Values Publishing
Now you can easily use DANEO Control to configure SV publishing with DANEO 400 devices.
Further improvements
- Product cyber security improvements of the DANEO 400 and DANEO Control software
- The web interface for DANEO 400 has been removed to improve security
- DANEO 400 now starts Socks Proxy only on demand
- The SV IDs are now displayed in the packet propagation analysis instead of the MAC addresses
Bug fixes
Fixed: Missing HSR header in PCAP Recordings
You can download the new software version free of charge from our Customer portal. Further information on the new software version can be found in the related document WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 5.00557 kB.