The document discusses running PcVue and creating projects in it. It covers starting PcVue using shortcuts or command line, creating a new project, understanding what processes are running when PcVue is active and exploring the application.
The document discusses running PcVue and creating projects in it. It covers starting PcVue using shortcuts or command line, creating a new project, understanding what processes are running when PcVue is active and exploring the application.
The document discusses running PcVue and creating projects in it. It covers starting PcVue using shortcuts or command line, creating a new project, understanding what processes are running when PcVue is active and exploring the application.
The document discusses running PcVue and creating projects in it. It covers starting PcVue using shortcuts or command line, creating a new project, understanding what processes are running when PcVue is active and exploring the application.
PcVue and project concepts Purpose n Run PcVue using various shortcuts, n Collect the traces, n Create a new PcVue project, n Manage the Application Explorer. Contents
1. Introduction 3 1.1. PcVue version 3 1.2. Files used in this module 3 1.3. Third party software used in this module 3
2. Project concepts 4 2.1. Deploy a project 4
3. Run PcVue 5 3.1. Shortcuts 5 3.2. Command line 7 3.3. Create a project 8 3.4. What is running? 10 3.5. Traces & logs 13
4. PcVue architecture 15 5. The Application Explorer 16 5.1. Main features 16 5.2. What can be configured from the Application Explorer?17
Each project is contained within a Windows folder. All project folders are located in the root folder that you specified during the set-up or the one specified in the command line (if using the –b switch).
PcVue can run only 1 project on 1 PC at any one time.
We had to leave the configuration file on the computer to run the
project. is it right? What is the way to protect the configuration file? for example, not allowing others to copy or modify a project without permission.
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2.1. Deploy a project
Because each project is self-contained within its own folder, deployment is very easy. You have only to copy the project folder to the target computer - that’s all!
PcVue opens a dialog box for the user to select the project. -s This option is recommended for the designer. -b “Folder_path” PcVue uses the projects located in the folder “Folder_path”. PcVue automatically loads the project project_name. This -p project_name option is recommended on site.
Exercise 1. Select the PcVue shortcut on your desktop. Check the options configured by default. Run PcVue. (In the Select Project dialog, select Demo_en then OK).
3.3. Create a project
For our training we are going to create a new project named TRAINING.
l In the Select Project dialog‘s Project field, type TRAINING.
[D] HDS icon located in the System Tray. (See the Archives Module – HDS).
[A] and [B] are managed by sv32.exe process. [D] is managed by HDS.exe process. In some circumstances, you can also have AIExplorer.exe process that will manage things during project development, Data Exports generation or user management. You can see these pro- cesses in the task manager details:
l HDS.log - Events produced by the Historical Data Server.
l OPCSrv.log - Events produced by the Supervisor's main program dedicated to OPC
server activities.
l sv32.Crash.Report.txt - A file generated in the unlikely event of an erroneous exit by
the Supervisor's main program.
If you check this folder you can see many other files, like Audit.Counters.0001.txt… They are recording valuable counters, by default every 30 minutes, in order to detect memory leaks, handles leaks, GDI leaks… These traces and logs are useful for helping our developers to analyse any problem.
If you have a crash you must send the complete Log Files and Dump Files folders to our Technical Support.
PcVue sends messages to Windows Event viewer and also supports sending mes- sages and logs to other systems with the SYSLOG protocol.
PcVue is modular software running several processes. Each process is in charge of a func- tion. The following diagram shows the processes and features.
The Application Explorer is a new way to manage the configuration of a PcVue application. It replaces the old style one-at-a-time configuration dialogs with a tool that allows you to visualize the configuration of the entire application in one Windows Explorer style view.
5.1. Main features
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[A] : Main menu.
[B] : Main toolbar.
[C] : Task pane. Displays tasks relevant to both the selected configuration folder and the item selected in the contents pane.
[D] : Configuration window. The main configuration window from where the configuration tree is navigated and the configuration modified.
[F] : Contents pane. Displays the contents (either configuration sub folders or configuration items) of the folder selected in the configuration tree.
[G] : Tool bar. Displays icons representing the tasks relevant to both the selected con- figuration folder and the item selected in the contents pane. In general, a copy of what is displayed in the task pane.
[H] : Behaviors pane. Only displayed when the Variables Tree is selected in the con- figuration tree. Displays any associated behavior for the variable selected in the contents pane. (Events, trending etc.).
[I] : Behaviors tool bar. Only displayed when the Behaviors Pane is displayed. Displays icons that represent the tasks that add, modify and delete variable behaviors
5.2. What can be configured from the Application Explorer?
l General
l Domain and Nature
l Labels
l Online printers
l File references
l Data connections
l Communication
l Data acquisition - OPC, DDE, LNS, BACnet, DNP3, IEC 104, IEC 61850 & SNMP
l Networking - Inter-station networking for client-server applications
l Servers - When using the Supervisor as an OPC server or Web server
l Variables
l Variables tree - Branches, Bit, Register and Text variables
l Associated behaviors - Overflow processing, Thresholds, Discrepancy check-
