Setup guide

OSx Migration Cookbook August 30, 2006
17 – Testing the Migration
PCS/OSx 3.1.2A through 4.1.2 have a patch available (patch
20270) that can add that capability. There is no patch for PCS prior
to 3.1.2A. For Tistar, no patch is necessary since RBE is not
implemented. In systems where RBE can be turned off, it is done
by setting the RBE delivery time in Network Setup to 0.
A system that does not have RBE, or has it turned off, scans the
PLCs instead of waiting to be informed. Such a system will see
alarms slightly later than the PCS 7 system. That is due to scan
cycle time delays. PCS 7 gets informed when the event happens, the
Tistar/PCS/OSx system finds out on the next scan, which can be as
much as a few seconds later.
Because RBE cannot be turned off on PCS systems earlier than
3.1.2A, those systems cannot run side by side with PCS 7 unless
they use separate PLCs or their RBE ids match.
Tistar/PCS/OSx and PCS 7 Side by Side (Summary)
PCS 7 OSx PCS
505OS 4.1.2A 4.1.0-4.1.2 3.1.2A-4.0.0B prior to 3.1.2A Tistar
Implements
RBE
Y Y Y Y Y N
Install.tag
files from
user
interface
have RBE
ids
N/A Y N N/A N/A N/A
Install.tag
files from
Data
Extraction
Services
have RBE
ids
N/A Y Y Y Y N
Install.tag
files from
APT have
RBE ids
N N N N N N
Can turn
off RBE
N/A Y
Y
(
patch 20270)
Y
(patch 20270)
N N/A
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