RSView Supervisory Edition Installation Guide

• • • • •RSVIEW SUPERVISORY EDITION USER’S GUIDEPlanning the layout of the networkIt is important to pay careful attention to the layout of the network, when designing adistributed application.The Windows ® domain or workgroupDistributed applications that contain more than 10 computers require a domain controller.Do not run FactoryTalk® Directory, or any other application software, on the same computer asa Windows domain controller.Applications that contain that 10 computers or fewer, can be run in a Windows workgroupenvironment. In that case, all computers participating in a single application must bemembers of the same Windows workgroup, and all must have administrative rights.The computers you’ll needYou can develop a distributed application on a single computer, and you can run it on asingle computer for testing purposes. However, depending on needs, a distributedapplication deployed for production typically involves the following computers:One computer running FactoryTalk Network Directory serverFactoryTalk Directory is software that works like a telephone directory or electronicaddress book, allowing the parts of an application to find each other on a computer, oracross a network.FactoryTalk Network Directory manages distributed applications, which can consist ofmultiple clients and servers distributed across a network. All of the computersparticipating in a distributed application must point at the same FactoryTalk NetworkDirectory. For details, see Chapter 4, Setting up FactoryTalk Directory.One or more redundant pairs of computers with RSView SE Server softwareinstalled on themThe RSView ® SE Server software is required to create and run HMI servers. The HMIserver stores HMI project components (for example, graphic displays), and serves thosecomponents to clients. The server also performs alarm detection, and historical datamanagement (logging), and might contain a database of tags.More than 2 HMI servers can be located on a single computer for development purposes only.When deploying an application, ensure that there are no more than 2 HMI servers per computer.If the servers are set up for redundancy, only 1 HMI server per computer is permitted.3-2