Installation and Upgrade Guide Instruction Manual

Publication 1757-IN500A-EN-P - September 2002
viii Table of Contents
Adding 1757-PLX52 Controller Redundancy to R500.1
Non-Redundant 1757-PLX52 Controller Configurations . . . . . 8-25
Deleting a Non-Redundant 1757-PLX52 and
Unassigning its Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-25
Installing and connecting Redundant Chassis Pair
(RCP) Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-27
Updating Firmware Revision Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-27
Creating a Redundant 1757-PLX52 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-27
Chapter 9
New Functions and Features Engineering Tools Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
Server Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
New Alarm/Event subsystem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
Updated Station & HMIWeb Display Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-3
Plant Data Model Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4
Integrated Windows 2000 Security for
ProcessLogix Operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4
Updated OPC Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4
OPC Alarm and Event Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4
Updated System Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4
Updated Application Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4
Updated Network API Support for Visual Basic. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
Hardware Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
Ethernet Supervisory Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
Flex I/O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
1756-DNB DeviceNet Interface Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-6
1757-ABRIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-6
Chapter 10
Major ProcessLogix Software
Components
Major ProcessLogix Engineering Tools Software Revisions. . . 10-1
Major ProcessLogix Server Software Revisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-3
Embedded Software Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-4
External, Third Party Qualified Software Components. . . . . . . 10-6
Miscellaneous SCADA Component Revisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-8
Chapter 11
Performance and Capacity
Specifications
Server/Client Performance and Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1
PC Platform Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1
Server Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2
Platform System Configuration Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2
Minimum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2
Typical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2