To elaborate a little more, this is the setup that I was able to get working. The XM controls the real time fieldbus over sercos in a line topology. The ctrlX access the drives with the drive connect app over the NRT channel of sercos by plugging into the last port on the system. The primray purpose here is to get access to the drive data for systems that are not yet compatible with ctrlX. In this case, the ctrlX will gather and send/store data on some interval using node-red to make requests from the data layer.
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