RSView Supervisory Edition Installation Guide

• • • • •RSVIEW SUPERVISORY EDITION USER’S GUIDESetting up communicationsThese are the tasks involved in setting up communications for an application:1. Gather information about the network, and the devices that are connected to it. Youwill need this information to set up RSLinx, or another OPC server.2. Decide what OPC server will be used to communicate with devices on the network. Itcan be any of the following OPC servers:• RSLinx Enterprise• RSLinx Classic• an OPC-DA 2.0-compliant serverFor information about when to use each of these OPC servers, see “Installing thecommunications software” on page 1-7.3. Set up the data server that will be used for communications.Setting up RSLinx EnterpriseTo use RSLinx Enterprise as the data server that enables communications on thenetwork, add an RSLinx Enterprise data server to the application and then set upRSLinx Enterprise. The RSLinx Enterprise data server should point to the computeron which RSLinx Enterprise is running.For details about setting up RSLinx Enterprise, see “Adding RSLinx Enterprise dataservers” on page 7-5, or see the RSLinx Enterprise Help.For details about installing RSLinx Enterprise, see the RSView Supervisory EditionInstallation Guide.Setting up RSLinx ClassicTo use RSLinx Classic as the OPC server that enables communications on a network,set up RSLinx Classic and then add an OPC data server to the application. The OPCdata server should point to the computer on which RSLinx Classic is running.For details, see Getting Results with RSLinx, or see Help for RSLinx.For details about installing RSLinx Classic, see the RSView Supervisory EditionInstallation Guide.Setting up an OPC server other than RSLinxTo use a OPC server other than RSLinx Classic, to enable communications on thenetwork, set up the OPC server you will use. For details, see the documentationsupplied with the OPC server.7-4