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CitectSCADA and CitectHMI CitectSCADA 7.0 Release Notes (updated 6 August 2007) What's in this Document? 1. Restrictions and Limitations 2. What’s New? 3. Requirements 4. Installation Notes 5. Upgrading 6. Operational Notes 7. Known Issues with this Release 8. Disclaimers 1. Restrictions and Limitations Please note: · Version 7.0 no longer supports NetBIOS network communication. You must convert your network to TCP/IP in your existing version before installing version 7.0. For details refer to the Migration section of the Installation and Configuration Guide. · This release does not support dbfs where the field specifications have been changed from the default. 2. What's New? CitectSCADA version 7.0 incorporates the following new features: · The Migration Tool – a tool to assist in migrating version 6.1 projects to version 7. · Clustering – allows you to group different sets of the runtime components within a single project, allowing multiple independent systems to be monitored and controlled · Local Variables – replace memory PLC tags and allow you to store data in memory when you start your runtime system. · Memory Mode – new mode to replace Memory I/O Devices. A memory mode device retains values in memory. · Client-side Online Changes – The following live changes can now be made to the project without restarting clients: o IO Devices (restart the IO server) o Tags (restart the IO server) o Alarms (restart the Alarm server) o Trends (restart the Trend server) o Reports (restart the Report server) o Accumulators (restart the Report server) Clients only require that graphics, code and communications configurations are deployed to them. Other configuration information is deployed to the appropriate server. Project changes are still deployed as before o manually o Run/Backup Run/Copy o FTP (IDC) o HTTP (Web Client) · Publisher-Subscriber Data Acquisition Model – clients now subscribe to tags and receive notifications when values change. This enables event driven functionality rather than the need for constant polling. · Dual Network Support – Network redundancy can be implemented now by specifying multiple IP addresses for each server. · Project-Based Network Configuration – Network topology and configuration is now defined in the project rather than in the Citect.ini configuration file. For further information about new features, see the online help. 3. Requirements 2.1 Licensing You must upgrade your current CitectSCADA Software Protection Key in order to run V7.0. To update your key, navigate to the Citect website at http://www.citect.com, or contact Citect technical support. 2.2 Software Version 7.0 has been tested to run on Windows XP, Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 64bit with Service Pack 1 or later. 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. · CitectSCADA version 7.0 no longer supports Microsoft Windows NT; in addition, CitectSCADA should not be used in 256-color mode. 2.3 Minimum and recommended hardware and software: Refer to the CitectSCADA Installation and Configuration Guide provided on the DVD for this detailed information. Note: If you are using the Process Analyst, we recommend that you use a graphics card with at least 64MB of VRAM and do not share VRAM with main memory. 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. Important: Before installing this release of CitectSCADA version 7.0, you must perform a full uninstall of any previous builds of CitectSCADA version 7.0 and also uninstall the Example and CSV_Example projects. To do this, open the Windows Control Panel, double-click Add or Remove Programs, select CitectSCADA from the list of installed software, and then click Remove. You must also manually uninstall any preliminary releases of Microsoft’s .NET Framework v2 (eg. beta releases or release candidates). Only the final release of .NET Framework v2 (v2.0.50727.42) should be present, however other final releases of .NET Framework (eg. v1) can co-exist. 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: o C:\>msiexec.exe /unregister o C:\>msiexec.exe /regserver The latest versions of all drivers are included in this release. You can use the DriverWeb utility at http://www.citect.com/driverweb to check that you have the latest versions of drivers. 5. Upgrading There have been significant structural changes to CitectSCADA in version 7.0. There are two stages to upgrading to the new version, upgrading the software and upgrading your projects. Before upgrading your software, read through the Installation and Configuration Guide supplied on the product DVD. 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. Most elements of your project can be migrated by the Migration Tool. However, you may need to do some preliminary work to make sure your project is migrated correctly. See the Upgrading section of the online help or the User Guide for more information. 6. Operational Notes Please note the following: Multi-CPU Support Note: In demonstration mode networking is disabled without a key. If you have an HMI license, you cannot run networked. In both these cases, CitectSCADA will run as a single process on a single CPU, even on a multiprocessor environment. If you do not have a network-enabled CitectSCADA license (for example, if you are running in demo mode or are running CitectHMI), you cannot configure version 7.0 to run in multiple processes. Multiprocessor Support and the Restart Facility The existing restart facility in CitectSCADA has limitations that may cause unpredictable results in your projects depending on the type of project changes you make. It may be more appropriate to stop and restart the individual components of your system by using the Runtime Manager instead of using the existing restart facility. Windows Firewall During CitectSCADA installation, if you are running 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. 7. Known Issues with this Release The following are known problems which are not yet fixed in this release. 30078 - When CitectSCADA is configured to use multiprocessor support, not all processes come online at the same time, which may result in alarms being generated. For example, if the client server comes online before the I/O server, an alarm will be generated. This alarm is dismissed when the I/O server (or other required server) comes online during startup. 30504 - CitectSCADA OPC does not return data when used with Microsoft Access. 8. Disclaimers
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