RSView Supervisory Edition Installation Guide

• • • • •RSVIEW SUPERVISORY EDITION USER’S GUIDERSView Administration Console is software for administering RSView SEapplications after they are deployed. RSView Administration Console contains a sub-setof the RSView Studio editors, which you can use to make minor changes to anapplication.RSView SE Client is software for viewing and interacting with supervisory-levelapplications developed using RSView Studio.RSView SE Server, also called the HMI server, stores HMI project components (forexample, graphic displays) and serves them to clients. The server also contains a databaseof tags, and performs alarm detection and historical data management (logging).The RSView SE Server has no user interface. Once installed, it runs as a set of ‘headless’Windows ® services that supply information to clients when they request it.FactoryTalk Directory is software that supplies a directory of services (for example,RSView SE Servers, or OPC ® servers) and names (for example, areas, tags, graphicdisplays, log models, and so on) to any computer on the network that participates inRSView SE applications.FactoryTalk Administration Console is configuration software for setting upFactoryTalk Directory services.Use RSView Studio to develop RSView SE applications. For distributed applications, use theFactoryTalk Administration Console to restore application archives and to set up computeraccounts after upgrading the FactoryTalk Automation Platform.For information about restoring distributed applications, see Chapter 27, Deployingdistributed applications. For information about upgrading FactoryTalk, see the RSViewSupervisory Edition Release Notes.The RSView tools and utilitiesDepending on the particular software packages you installed, you also will have installedone or more of the following tools and utilities.RSView Enterprise toolsTo use the tools described below, on the Windows Start menu, select Programs, RockwellSoftware, RSView Enterprise, Tools, and then click the tool.Application Manager is software for moving, copying, renaming, backing up, andrestoring applications.DeskLock is software that locks users into the RSView SE client and prevents them fromgaining access to the Windows desktop and system keys.1-2