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The multiport serial card is an extension card which is installed to a PCI slot in the
motherboard of the PC. As to the installation procedure, refer to the installation
manual of the product. In principle, any PCI based serial card can be used but
following product lines and manufacturers are verified and widely used in
MicroSCADA Pro systems:
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RocketPort from Comtrol Corp.
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DigiBoard from Digi International
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MOXA serial boards from Moxa Technologies, Inc.
The serial port products which are not PCI-based are also widely available.
However, as long as the COM ports provided by these products may disappear from
the system during runtime, the overall reliability of the system is worse than in PCI-
based alternatives.
In all cases, for the COM port, the communication line used is defined with the SD-
attribute of the line object.
2.6.1.2. Installing LON cards
For installation of LON cards, refer to Connecting LONWORKS Devices manual.
2.6.1.3. Installing network cards
If the system configuration contains protocols which use LAN, the necessary
network adapters must be installed. In most cases, the process communication uses
the same network adapter as the MicroSCADA Pro base system and the installation
procedure is the same as described in Section 2.2. Local Area Network (LAN)
The communication lines created to PC-NET instances may use multiple local IP-
addresses especially when there is multiple connection to Network Control Centers
(slave protocols) or the IEDs which are connected the MicroSCADA Pro are
divided to multiple networks (master protocols).
In Windows, it is possible to define multiple IP-addresses to the same network
adapter but it is also possible that the used IP-addresses are divided to multiple
network adapters. Multiple network adapters are often used in systems requiring
redundant communication lines. When the installation and the configuration of the
network adapters is complete, the successful ‘ping’ test described in Section 2.2.
Local Area Network (LAN) indicates that the given IP-address is present in the
system and it can be used by the PC-NET.
In all LAN protocols supported by PC-NET, line attribute LD defines which local
IP-address is used by the communication line.
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