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eWON 500-2001-4001-4002 User Guide - eWON Configuration
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4 eWON Configuration Interface
Figure 3: eWON SCADA page
Just after you have logged in successfully, the eWON SCADA will be displayed (as explained in the next chapter).
But before analyzing the SCADA page, you need to configure your eWON.
Click on the Configuration menu item. The following Configuration web page then appears:
Figure 4: eWON configuration links
4.1 Overview
Configuration includes the following points:
• User’s list
The user’s list is used by the eWON to restrict access to the various features of the eWON according to the user’s rights.
It also allows logging the user’s actions (like alarm acknowledge…).
See also chapter “Users Setup” on page 18
• Tags list
The eWON monitors and manages variables (called Tags). A Tag can be Boolean or float, and Tags are produced by IO servers.
The configuration of a Tag defines its IO server and all its monitoring parameters (historical logging (Warning: not for all eWONs
versions - see table page 233), alarm levels, etc.
See also chapter “Tag definition: Introduction” on page 56
• System configuration
Communication and global configuration of the eWON are defined here.
See also chapter “System Setup” on page 22
• IO Server configuration
As explained in chapter “Tag definition: Introduction” on page 56, each Tag is produced by an IO server. An IO server can interface
the physical eWON IO or the Modbus remote IO, etc. Some of these IO servers require some configuration.
See also chapter “IO servers setup” on page 69
• Pages definitions
It is possible to organize the Tags by groups. These groups are called "pages" and they help keeping a clearer organization of the
Tags and also managing per user rights for the Tags. Two pages, called "Default" and "System" are automatically defined, and up
to 10 pages can be user defined.
See also chapter “Pages configuration” on page 68
• Scripts Configuration
The Basic language that is embedded in the eWON allows you to create your own scripts that you will use to get access to the data
that are stored in the eWON, in order to perform real-time monitoring or programming actions on alarms,...
See also chapter “Script Setup” on page 69