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RE: Factory Talk View Studio Revision 16 - Factory Talk Updater 4.30 -- bug warning

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Oct 21, 2025 05:52:28 PM
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Optional Work Around choose Customized Install and don't install FT Updater 4.30 agent if you have a working 4.20 on that node. -------------------------------------------

Factory Talk View Studio Revision 16 - Factory Talk Updater 4.30 -- bug warning

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Oct 21, 2025 01:49:00 PM
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10/21/2025 - Installing Factory Talk Studio Revision 16 upgrades previous versions of FT Updater to 4.30, Thus far FT Updater 4.30 Agent will not connect to FT updater 4.30 Server. Work Around was to downgrade to FT Updater 4.20 Agenr with 4.30 Server. Engineering at Rockwell is working the issue. ...

RE: User Beware Stratix NAT is not the same as 1783-NATR NAT

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Aug 20, 2025 06:50:00 AM
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Thank you, Lesley, for explaining that MAJOR difference between 5400 NAT and the way the 9300-ENA and 1783-NATR work. I assume I missed it somewhere in the documentation, because external public devices never needed to be NAT mapped to vacant Private IP addresses with the 9300-ENA or 1783-NATR. ...

RE: User Beware Stratix NAT is not the same as 1783-NATR NAT

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Aug 19, 2025 10:54:57 AM
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Please clarify something in your post for me? When trying to access the NAT translated device from the same VLAN on the public side, you will need to add a public to private translation as well for every 'public' device that needs to communicate with the private device. The Private Device (PLC ...

RE: User Beware Stratix NAT is not the same as 1783-NATR NAT

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Aug 14, 2025 01:20:00 PM
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The static NAT that you show is what we were trying to do and the 200.200.200.X addresses in your example don't arrive at the Cisco. The stratix 5400 doesn't translate them, even though it claims it does.

User Beware Stratix NAT is not the same as 1783-NATR NAT

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Aug 13, 2025 11:43:00 AM
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This post is a bit of a rant and I apologize if I offend anyone, but I just finished spending six hours over three days on the phone with Rockwell "Experts" to learn the Stratix 5400 could not do NAT in the manner that the old reliable 1783-NATR does. If have achieved what I tried please share, I would ...

RE: Factory Talk Updater Bug Report

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Aug 19, 2024 10:17:00 AM
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Ticket #4010758834 - Filed with Activations Team on this issue - 8/19/24 awaiting response.

RE: Factory Talk Updater Bug Report

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Aug 14, 2024 11:51:00 AM
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Based on your video you are thinking that Updater will take you from Control Flash Plus 5.00 to 6.00. Is that what you're expecting? I am not an RA official commentor, but the purpose of Updater is to apply patches not to update between versions of a software package. That still has to be done ...

RE: Factory Talk Updater Bug Report

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Aug 14, 2024 11:26:00 AM
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Which piece of software are you trying to update? Can you post a screenshot Like Philip and I did below.

RE: Factory Talk Updater Bug Report

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Aug 14, 2024 11:24:00 AM
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Dear Philip: Makes me wonder the difference between your PC and mine at 4.10

RE: Factory Talk Updater Bug Report

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Aug 14, 2024 06:36:00 AM
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It has worked for me from October of 23 until August of 24 when this bug popped up. Not that there haven't been issues. But keeping a dozen Rockwell Development PC patched it has been priceless.

Factory Talk Updater Bug Report

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Aug 13, 2024 05:18:00 PM
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The PCDC has a July 2024 Patch RollUp but Factory Talk updater over a dozen days into August, still shows the June 2024 Patch Roll Up as current and nothing in need of download. Also where is the promised 4.20 version??

RE: Factory Talk Updater

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Apr 09, 2024 07:21:00 PM
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Update - A rescan revealed patch did not deploy. Logs show no reason for install failure other than socket termination. RDP into agent and found free space below 6GB which means patch roll up could not be deployed. Freeing up space and patches deploy.

RE: Factory Talk Updater

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Apr 09, 2024 03:57:00 PM
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April 2024 Patch Tuesday - Factory Talk Updater still broken with respect to Connected Components Workbench Updates. ALSO NEW DEVELOPMENT - Patch Roll Up deployed to 10 Rockwell Development Stations and all came back "Patch Deploy Failed" ; click the "cancel" link as it's the only option and choose ...

RE: Factory Talk Updater

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Mar 29, 2024 08:52:00 AM
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Ticket #: 4010356400 - Was opened in November 2023 for this issue against 4.0 - closed because 4.10 was allegedly the fix. Ticket #: 4010506994 - Was opened in February 2024 for this issue against 4.10 - response "crickets" EDIT: fixed formatting -FL

Factory Talk Updater

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Mar 21, 2024 08:16:00 PM
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It has been Five (5) months now and Factory Talk Updater V4.10 (still latests and greatest) says I need to patch my CCW13 and CCW21 systems, but fails when I attempt to do so and if I goto the PCDC and patch manually it does not acknowledge the patching. I know its free software, but it would be ...

RE: FactoryTalk Updater - Does not cleanup after itself

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Feb 13, 2024 02:50:00 PM
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Circling Back on PatchTuesday of Feb 2024 to confirm that FTUpdater V4.10 is now cleaning up after itself on the agents. Nice improvement!

FactoryTalk Updater - Does not cleanup after itself

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Jan 09, 2024 02:56:00 PM
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Three or Four Months ago I stumbled on a great tool the FactoryTalk Updater. Turns out it has been out for sometime, but not hyped much at least in the automation circles I travel. Having setup a Server, Client and a dozen Agents it is now quite simple each month to roll out the latest patch sets when ...

RE: Error Message - "DH_xxx returned 217"

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Dec 18, 2023 10:43:00 AM
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All DH+ Nodes are shown as expected in RSLINX. The Project Path is correct as it has been for 10 years. My change control application uses RSlogix5 to upload the program Every Other Day and that has been working flawlessly. ------------------------------ Robert Lightfoot ----------- ...

RE: Error Message - "DH_xxx returned 217"

Posted By Robert Lightfoot Dec 18, 2023 09:56:00 AM
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That's what was strange. RSlinx Data Monitor showed the internal clock counting seconds just fine. When RSLogix failed to connect I checked it through RSlinx first. My suspicion is that given the age of this equipment I have a communication module failing due to Capacitors aging. I've seen this with ...