Delivery Release: SIMATIC WinCC/Connectivity Pack V6.0
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Effective immediately, the product
- SIMATIC WinCC/Connectivity Pack V6.0
is released for delivery in all ZNs and LGs.
Please note that the Connectivity Pack REQUIRES WinCC V6 SP1 or
WinCC V6 SP1 ASIA.
1.0 Objective
With WinCC V6, steps are
taken to further integrate information from the process and the
production into business processes. Production processes are no
longer strictly separated from the remaining infrastructure of a
company. More and more often, production computers are connected to
the company Intranet. To further increase the efficiency of a
production, it is necessary to make relevant production data
available online to other processes, so that they can react
instantly to it. (Example 1: The number of operating cycles of a
machine is the input variable used by a maintenance management
program to plan service cycles and automatically reorder
consumables. Example 2: Power/heat/water consumption figures are
forwarded online to a financial system to charge cost centers and
to generate invoices).
Common to all of these
applications is that the data origination and the analysis are
often physically separated. Thus, it is required to transmit
relevant data from the SCADA systems to remote analysis systems.
The option package SIMATIC WinCC/Connectivity Pack
V6.0 addresses the above scenario.
2.0 Components of the Connectivity Pack V6.0
The option package WinCC/Connectivity Pack
specifically addresses the requirements of system
integrators and end users with in-house engineering
departments. It includes standardized programming
interfaces, on which third-party applications can be built on.
Through the necessary programming, the user obtains the highest
possible flexibility in exchanging WinCC data with third-party
applications.
The licensed Connectivity Pack interfaces are:
- OPC Alarm & Event Server
- OPC Historical Data Access Server
- WinCC OLE-DB Provider
(Microsoft OLE-DB Provider for SQL2000/ODBC - NOT yet released within the Connectivity Pack V6.0!)
The included OPC servers make it easy to integrate standard components of external providers.
3.0 Functions of the WinCC/Connectivity Pack V6.0
3.1 Delivery Scope
The WinCC/Connectivity Pack
consists of 2 CD-ROMs and an authorization disk. The Connectivity
Pack CD-ROM contains one installation program for the Connectivity
Pack Server and another one for the Connectivity Pack Client. On
the second CD-ROM, the MS SQL Server 2000 with the SP3 is
supplied.
The Connectivity Pack Server is generally installed on a WinCC
RT machine. It contains all necessary components to access this
WinCC machine via the interfaces listed at 2.1.
In addition, the Connectivity Pack Server can also be loaded onto
a long-term archiving server (LAS) without a WinCC installation. It
then provides access to the WinCC archives located on the LAS via
the OLE-DB. In this case, the SQL 2000 Server SP3 will also be
loaded during the installation (no access via OPC A&E or OPC
HDA will be possible, since they require an operational WinCC
Runtime system).
The Connectivity Pack Client is used for the installation of the
WinCC OLE-DB Provider and other necessary components onto a client
WITHOUT a WinCC installation and WITHOUT an SQL server
installation.
If a WinCC V6 SP1 installation is already present on the client,
NO installation of the Connectivity Pack Client is required on this
machine.
The CD-ROM also contains the documentation in two languages
(German, English) and two application examples. One application
example shows a Visual Basic application that remotely accesses
WinCC database tables. The other example is implemented as a WinCC
project, where the necessary calls are made from the WinCC Visual
Basic Script. The examples are annotated and included in the source
code.
A printed version of the documentation is not available.
3.2 Setup
Access to a standard WinCC RT Machine
The Connectivity Pack
can be installed on any WinCC RT machine (not WinCC clients)
possessing Version 6.0 SP1 or higher. It enables the simultaneous
access of multiple clients to the WinCC database. In this case, it
does not matter whether the calling client applications run locally
on the same machine or on a remote computer. The network between
the client and the server must support TCP/IP and not block DCOM
connections through firewalls.
Access to a central Long-Term Archiving Server
(LAS)
The Connectivity Pack can also be installed on a
long-term archiving server (without WinCC). The server setup first
installs the SQL server with the WinCC-specific profile. Following
that, the Archive Connector (included in the delivery scope of the
Connectivity Pack) will be started. With it, WinCC databases
swapped out to the LAS (from different subordinated WinCC projects)
can be manually connected to the SQL server and also be
disconnected again. In addition, the Archive Connector also permits
an automatic connection of all WinCC database files that were
copied into special folders of the LAS. In this case, it is assumed
that the archiving to exactly this folder of the LAS has been
configured on the subordinated WinCC stations. Whenever an archive
database from WinCC is copied to the LAS, it is automatically
connected to the SQL server by the Archive Connector and becomes
accessible via the Connectivity Pack interfaces.
In principle, it is possible for multiple subordinated WinCC
stations to archive to the same LAS but into DIFFERENT folders.
In this case as well, the client application can have access
locally or via a network.
3.3 Installation Requirements
Hardware Requirements
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Minimum |
Recommended |
CPU |
Connectivity Pack
Client: Intel Pentium II, 300 MHz |
Connectivity Pack Client: Intel Pentium
III, 800 MHz |
Main Memory/RAM |
Connectivity Pack
Client: 256 MB |
Connectivity Pack Client: 512 MB |
Software Requirements
At the Connectivity Pack
Server/Client, the following should be installed:
- Windows 2000 SP3 or
- Windows XP SP1
- Where necessary, WinCC V6.0 SP1
For the installation on a WinCC V6 SP1 ASIA machine, the data listed there applies (delivery release will follow shortly).
3.4 Available Data
The Connectivity Pack provides
access to the following WinCC data:
- Online alarms and messages (via OPC A&E on the WinCC RT machine; reading and acknowledging)
- Historical alarms (via WinCC OLE-DB on the WinCC RT machine and the LAS; reading)
- Historical process values (via OPC HDA on the WinCC RT machine; reading)
- Historical process values (via WinCC OLE-DB on the WinCC RT machine and the LAS; reading)
Access to data of the user archives is currently not possible.
While accessing process data via the WinCC OLE-DB returns pure raw data from the archives, the access via the OPC HDA gives the client the option of requesting already more concentrated data (e.g. standard deviation, median values over time, etc.) from the server. This reduces the engineering work for the user and the data quantity on the network.
3.5 Licensing
The WinCC Connectivity Pack is authorized via the
"WinCC/Connectivity Pack" authorization disk. This license is only
required on the PC, whose data interfaces are to be accessed.
The license does not differentiate among the number and type of
simultaneous accesses.
A Connectivity Pack license is also required, if the client
application (OPC client or database client) runs locally on the
same computer as the Connectivity Pack server.
In addition, each Connectivity Pack client (CP client) must be
licensed via a WinCC CAL. This applies to CP clients on which no
licensed installation of WinCC, the Web Navigator,
IndustrialDataBridge, Audit or Dat@Monitor is present (these
products already come with a corresponding CAL). This CAL always
applies to a SINGLE CP client. With it, this client can access any
number of Connectivity Pack servers.
For applications with many accessing clients or in which the
number of clients cannot be determined/limited (e.g. when
publishing archive data via a Web server), a processor-based CAL
can be employed. This CAL always applies to one processor of a
SINGLE WinCC RT machine/LAS. For more information, please consult
the delivery release for WinCC/CAL (see 17624114).
3.6 Use with WinCC ASIA
The WinCC/Connectivity Pack
V6.0 is also released for use with WinCC V6 SP1 ASIA (data and
installation; above mentioned application scenarios). The system
environments applicable to this can be found in the delivery
release for WinCC V6 SP1 ASIA (delivery release will follow
shortly).
The user interface, however, is not available in the Asian
languages.
4.0 Delivery Scope and Ordering Data
Product Name |
Order Number |
WinCC / Connectivity Pack V6.0 |
6AV6371-1DR06-0AX0 |
The ordering data for WinCC V6.0 SP1 and WinCC/CAL can be found in the corresponding Delivery Releases (see 17066503 and 17624114).
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- French
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