CitectSCADA and CitectHMI

CitectSCADA 7.10 On-Process Beta 1

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(updated 21st July 2008)



See the Release Notes for information about problems fixed with this release.

What's in this Document?

  1. Restrictions and Limitations
  2. What’s New?
  3. Requirements
  4. Installation Notes
  5. Best Practice for Installation
  6. Upgrading
  7. Operational Notes
  8. Known Issues with this Release
  9. Disclaimers

1. Restrictions and Limitations

Please note:

  • This Beta release supports the English language only.
  • Internet Display Client is not compatible with Windows Vista®.
  • This release does not support the use of the SafeNet SuperPro dongle on a VMWare® platform running Windows Vista® or Windows XP®.
  • 64 Bit support of CitectSCADA on VMWare® is currently not supported.
  • Only selected drivers are being shipped with this beta release. You can use the DriverWeb utility at http://www.citect.com/driverweb to try others.
  • Some driver online help files are shipped in the .hlp format and are not compatiable with Windows Vista®. Help may be provided for drivers that are not distributed with this beta release.
  • Drivers may be installed that are not compatible with Windows Vista®. They are included so that you can continue to compile projects for non-Vista client machines.
  • CitectSCADA Batch is not compatible with the Windows XP 64 bit operating system or the Windows Vista 32 or 64 bit operating system.

2. What's New?

CitectSCADA version 7.10 incorporates the following new features:

  • Vista Support - CitecSCADA now officially supports Microsoft’s Vista® (Service Pack 1). Due to security changes in Windows Vista, some modifications to the location of files have been made. These changes apply to all supported operating systems. See the Installation Guide for details of these changes.
  • VMWare Support - CitectSCADA now officially supports running on a Windows instance on VMWare® Infrastructure (VMWare® Server - ESX). We do not officially support VMWare® virtual machines running on a hosting operating system.
  • Windows Integrated Security for Runtime - Allows security of your CitectSCADA Project at runtime to be managed using Windows Users and Groups.
  • Project DBF Add-in for Excel - a tool to assist editing CitectSCADA DBF’s files via Microsoft’s Excel® 2003 and 2007.
  • New Alarm Properties - Two Alarm Properties have been added to enable CitectSCADA to interface with any third-party paging system. The Paging property is a flag to indicate that the alarm is going to be paged, the PagingGroup property is a freeform text field indicating the sequence of people to notify in the event the alarm occurred.
  • Time Synchronization Service - provides a Vista® Ready Windows Service to accurately synchronize your computer from multiple sources. This service can be configured via the CitectSCADA Explorer.

For further information about new features, see the online help.

3. Requirements

3.1 Licensing

You must upgrade your current CitectSCADA in order to run V7.10. To check if your Software Protection Key is capable of running Version 7.10 go to CitectSCADA Explorer > Help > Citect Key Update and verify the CitectSCADA Version is 7.1x.

If your CitectSCADA Version is 7.0 you are entitled to a free upgrade to v7.1. Navigate to the Citect website at http://www.citect.com > Support > Auth Code Generator to get a new authorization code, or contact Citect Technical Support.

If you need to update your version and you are NOT in Support and are not already licensed for Version 7.0 contact your local sales representative.

3.2 Software

Version 7.10 has been tested to run on:

  • Windows Vista® with Service Pack 1 (32 Bit and 64 Bit)
  • Windows XP® with Service Pack 2 and Service Pack 3 (RC2) - (32 Bit and 64 Bit)
  • Windows Server® 2003 with Service Pack 1 (32 Bit)

Notes:

  • You must use Internet Explorer version 6.0 or above if using the Process Analyst, CitectSCADA Web Client, or CitectSCADA Web Server.
  • If you intend to use the Web Client on Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 Server, you must first install the latest Windows Installer module on your machine. This is available via the Windows Update feature in Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 Server.

3.3 Minimum and recommended hardware and software:

Refer to the CitectSCADA Installation and Configuration Guide provided on the DVD for this detailed information.

4. Installation Notes

In this release of CitectSCADA an Installation and Configuration Guide in PDF format is included with the documentation on the distribution disk. It is important that you read this document carefully prior to performing the installation to ensure a satisfactory installation of the software.

When you insert the distribution disk in your drive and you have autostart enabled, CitectSCADA Setup starts up automatically to guide you with your installation choices. An alternative way to start CitectSCADA Setup is to double-click the setup.exe file that appears in the root directory of the distribution disk. We recommend that you use the CitectSCADA Setup utility to install our products as installing the individual product setups separately is not optimal.

Notes:

  • To make installation easier, you can upload the contents of the CitectSCADA Installation DVD to your network and install from the network, rather than install CitectSCADA individually on each workstation from the installation DVD.
  • If when installing CitectSCADA you get the message 1607: Unable to install InstallShield Scripting Runtime, this indicates the Windows installer service has fallen into an illegal state. You must reregister the Windows installer service by executing the following commands at the command prompt:
    • C:\>msiexec.exe /unregister
    • C:\>msiexec.exe /regserver

Only selected drivers are included in this release (see Restrictions and Limitations for further information on drivers). You can use the DriverWeb utility at http://www.citect.com/driverweb to check that you have the latest versions of drivers.

5. Best Practice for Installation

To improve the security of your SCADA system and provide compatibility with Windows Vista, CitectSCADA 7.10 can now be run under a standard user account (i.e. one without administrator privileges). To achieve this, some modifications to the location of files installed by CitectSCADA have been made. These changes apply to all supported operating systems. Specifically, it is no longer possible for standard users to write to the Program Files or System directories, which means the citect.ini file cannot live in the Bin or Windows directory, and the User folder cannot live under Program Files. It is advisable that you accept the default installation path when installing , or ensure that your chosen User/Data folder is writable by standard users.

When installed on Windows XP or earlier, configuration and project files are stored in the Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/ folder. When installed on Windows Vista, configuration and project files are stored in the ProgramData/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/ folder. Install locations are as follows:



File type

Platform

Install Path

Configuration files such as the citect.ini file

Pre-Vista

Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/Config

Vista

ProgramData/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/Config

User directory

Pre-Vista

Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/User

Vista

ProgramData/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/User

Data directory

Pre-Vista

Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/Data

Vista

ProgramData/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/Data

Log files

All log files produced by drivers are written to a sub-foldercalled 'Drivers'.

Pre-Vista

Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/Logs

Vista

ProgramData/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/Logs

6. Upgrading

For Version 6.10 users, before upgrading your projects it is important that you read and understand the What’s New and Upgrading sections of the online help or the CitectSCADA User Guide as significant structural changes occurred in Version 7.0.

The ability to use Project Fonts inside buttons has been removed and replaced. (see What’s New in online help). During project upgrade CitectSCADA will look up the project font being used by a button and convert it into the appropriate font properties on the Button.

Windows enforces that all time manipulation requires Administration privileges. CitectSCADA has been changed to only require Standard User privileges and as a result means the existing TimeSet cicode function is now obsolete. For time synchronization the new CitectSCADA Time Synchronization service should be used

7. Operational Notes

Please note the following:

Runtime-Graphics

When using dynamic page resizing, please be aware that a change has been made to scale (rather than stretch) all text regardless of whether it is static or dynamic text providing a smoother display.

Vista Performance

The Windows Vista environment introduced a radically different architecture with a significant increase in security checks that has impacted on application performance. Running CitectSCADA servers on a Windows Vista computer will incur a performance penalty and at this point in time is not recommended.

Windows Firewall

During CitectSCADA installation, if you are running Windows Vista or Windows XP SP2 and have the Windows Firewall enabled, you are given the option of allowing the CitectSCADA Setup to modify your firewall settings by adding CitectSCADA Runtime and FTP Server to the Windows Firewall’s list of authorized programs. If the Windows Firewall is not enabled, this dialog is not displayed.

8. Known Issues with this Release

The following are known problems which are not yet fixed in this release.

37620 – Projects will not compile with I/O devices using DNPr drivers.

38102 - When using Windows security, attempting to logon into CitectSCADA using domain credentials may fail when the domain controller is not available.

38532 - On Vista, when starting the WebClient after starting the Display Client on the same computer an error message “Unexpected error;quitting” will appear. This error will appear for projects using the ItemList.exe ActiveX control, for example the CSV Example project. This issue can be worked around by either not running the WebClient on the same computer as a display client, or to first run the WebClient and then run the CitectSCADA Display client, and then restart the WebClient (if needed).

39121 - YOK_CXLE driver fails to install intermittently during product installation. The driver installation may be restarted if the problem occurs.

38828 - Time Synchronization only works if the running service and the remote time source is on the same domain.

39321 - Viewing the Reports page using a Display Client on Windows Server 2000/2003 with Terminal Services (through the http://<IP Address of terminal server>/tsweb URL), causes a memory leak.

39362 – When configuring an I/O device with the UNITE protocol, and performing a tag import using Unity SpeedLink Static, if the PLC Family is set to Premium it will not validate through. Therefore, it will not be able to import.

39263 - M340 PLC family not listed as PLC type when exporting to or importing from Static Unity database

9. Disclaimers

Disclaimer of All Warranties 
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Disclaimer of Liability 
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