Installation guide

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2. Installation
2.1 Overview
In this manual the installation process is broken into three parts:
1. Setting up the control room PC software
2. Connecting to the Transclinics and other Modbus devices
3. Setting up the plant configuration using PV editor
Important: the Control room computer must have an internet connection with a static IP address. This will
be required for Service staff to access the system and for Design staff to edit the configuration. Use of a
firewall is recommended.
2.2 Planning
Before you start it is important to plan the communications and have the information that you need for the in-
stallation. At the very least you must:
• Decide on an administrator password for the system
• Assign unique IP addresses to all the Ethernet devices on your network
• Select Modbus slave addresses for each of the Transclinics and any other serial Modbus devices
• Decide on serial communications parameters (Baud rate, Data Bits, Stop Bits, Parity and Flow con-
trol)
2.3 Setting up the Control room PC Software
2.3.1 Installing the MySQL Database
MySQL installation files
A version of the software for the MySQL database and the MySQL ODBC connector is available on the USB
stick supplied. You may wish to load the current release from
http://dev.mysql.com. Alternatively contact us
for the latest supported version.
MySQL Versions
MySQL Community Edition is an Open Systems database available freely on-line. It is accessed by PV Soft-
clinic using an ODBC connector which is available from the MySQL site. As long as the MySQL ODBC Con-
nector and MySQL Database versions are compatible, the version of the Database is not critical. The cur-
rently supported version of MySQL is 5.1.
Password
Important: the password that you use to install the database becomes the administrator password for the
database (user = “root”). This password is also used when starting PV-Clinic Runtime. Choose carefully and
remember that the system may be operating for decades so decide where and who is responsible for keep-
ing track of it. The password can be changed at any time using any of the MySQL management tools avail-
able from the web.