04.Licenciamiento Del MicroSCADA

Course: MicroSCADA Licensing - Exercise

Exercise 11 B) MicroSCADA Licensing

11.1 General Information 11.1.1 Abstrac MicroSCADA requires some preparation tasks to get running the MicroSCADA for our DEMO application.

11.1.2 Objectives If you complete this exercise you should be able to: •

Start MicroSCADA software

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Open MicroSCADA monitor

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Import/installation of MicroSCADA license file.

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Restart/Stop of MicroSCADA application

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Verification of MicroSCADA license

11.1.3 Reference Documentation •

MicroSCADA manuals.

11.1.4 Time/ Social Form •

15 minutes

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You work alone or in groups of 2..3 people

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11.2 Training environment Windows XP (Professional) or Windows 2000SP4.

Software versions installed: -

MicroSCADA SYS600 V9.2 or V9.3

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Demo LicenseV9.2 or V9.3 available

11.3 Exercise Install MicroSCADA license file.

11.3.1 Exercise description (Expert Level) Do the exercise described above.

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11.3.2 Step by Step Description (Normal Level) 11.3.2.1 First startup of MicroSCADA MicroSCADA installation should have placed following shortcut to run MicroSCADA programs. Open this shortcut.

You will see following collection of programs:

Open “SYS 600 Notify” window – this window will show you the current status of the MicroSCADA program execution.

This window will indicate that no MicroSCADA is started so far.

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Start MicroSCADA Service. Following messages will appear in the notification window:

à WARNING: indicates that there is no valid license installed. This means many feature are not available and communication is disabled. à MicroSCADA Service dialog prompts you to confirm that MicroSCADA Service is started successfully!

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11.3.2.2 Opening MicroSCADA classic monitor

Open a MicroSCADA monitor using “SYS 600 Monitor” shortcut. Following dialog appears:

Just select “OK” with the standard values or if you like you can choose a different size of window. Monitors can also be preconfigured. (See file monitors.dat in the directory ..\sc\sys\active\sys)

When you open the MicroSCADA monitor there are a few messages regarding some conversion. This is due to the first time you open the monitor and MicroSCADA is therefore preparing the application.

Application name is TUTOR as you can see it in the windows header. So far no username and password is required since the application is not yet fully prepared.

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After choosing “Login” the “Tool Manager” window will open.

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11.3.2.3 Installation of MicroSCADA License Generally licensing for customer is done by a license file and a dongle. For training purpose we have a time limited license key available which runs for 1 month. Installation of License is done by using “License” tool within MicroSCADA program.

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Verify License information

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Press “Apply” button to register the license file. Following information dialog appears which asks you to restart to MicroSCADA application.

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11.3.2.4 Restart/stop of MicroSCADA application To restart the application you have to use again the “MicroSCADA Control Panel”.

Press “Stop”.

Select “Yes”.

Message dialog informs you that MicroSCADA Service is stopped.

And also the Notification Window detects loss of connection to MicroSCADA. This means the MicroSCADA is stopped successfully. Select “Clear” button so for the next start of MicroSCADA we will have an empty screen. Now you start the MicroSCADA again. Use the “MicroSCADA Control Panel” as shown in 11.3.2.1 .

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11.3.2.5 Verification of MicroSCADA License This time there should not be any messages regarding the incomplete license. However if you are only using a time limited licenses as it is used for standard training you can see in how many days the license will expire as shown in the example below.

In the MicroSCADA monitor you can also find information about to who is the license is registered to.

à MicroSCADA installation is licensed now!

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