PcVue Release 9.0 (10/22/2009)

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This document contains information about version 9.0 of the Supervisor:

What’s new in this release? - An overview of the main new features
System requirements
Installation

See the Release Notes for more information about software changes since version 8.2, in particular a list of modifications and known issues.

What’s new in this version?

This section lists all major new features and enhancements.

General	End-user	Designer
Microsoft® Windows 7 support – x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) architectures.	X	X
Microsoft® Windows Server 2008 support – x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) architectures.	X	X
Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 support – x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) architectures.	X	X
Single-Sign On support for automatic login when using the Supervisor in Microsoft® Windows Terminal Server environment along with Microsoft® Windows authentication based on domain controllers and Active Directory.	X
New presentation language: Latvian.	X	X
New online helps in German and Japanese.	X	X
New Supervisor’s Add-ons (when applicable): Kepware OPC server bundle - Along with a common licensing mechanism so that the Supervisor's dongle also contains the OPC server license. Standard and Premium drivers are available.	X	X
Updated Supervisor’s Add-ons (when applicable): WebScheduler version 1.0 - It enables you to run scheduled tasks and configure them locally or via Internet. This version includes fixes and minor enhancements, including Latvian support, Dream Report® version 3.41 - A powerful tool that will help you design, generate and publish your reports. This version includes fixes and minor enhancements.	X	X
The DVD splitter tool can no longer be used and is not supplied.
A new 65 000 I/O license is available.	X	X
290+ fixes and enhancements.	X	X

HMI	End-user	Designer
3D mimics, mimic templates and symbols can now be saved in plain text format - It is possible to generate such objects via third-party tools.	X	X
Trend viewer - It is now possible to display time values formatted in the form dd hh:mm:ss:lll in the legend area and in trend scales.	X
The log viewer now supports sort features and context mimics as already available on the alarm viewer.	X
The log viewer time filter now supports both start and end times or start time and direction.	X

Real time Data management	End-user	Designer
Real-time data can now be persistent when stopping and restarting the Supervisor. This facilitates non-permanent communication handling.		X
Variable extended attributes and simulated flag can also be persistent.		X

Historical Data management	End-user	Designer
The new DBImport tool allows you to import data from csv files to HDS tables.	X	X

Alarms management	End-user	Designer
A new set of levels has been added in addition to alarm priority: Acknowledgement, mask and maintenance levels. The ability for users to acknowledge, mask or take alarms into account can now be different from the alarm priority, and combined when it is time to define user rights.	X	X

SCADA Basic scripting	End-user	Designer
In addition to the parameter-based built-in sort features, log and alarm viewers sorting is fully scriptable to comply with custom needs.		X
A new mode is available to execute scripts when a user clicks in the log and alarm viewers, thus allowing any custom processing on the selected alarms or logged events.		X
New verb to download and upload files via FTP.		X
The AIGrid macro-animation is now fully scriptable via the SELECTOR verb.		X

Data Acquisition	End-user	Designer
New protocols: MEWTOCOL-COM for ET1 - TCP based driver for communication with Panasonic devices (formerly Matsushita). The driver for communication with FP series PLCs via serial port was already available, BACnet® client driver - To access data from your BACnet devices over BACnet/IP and MS/TP networks. Status and diagnostic information are also available for BACnet communication objects, as well as a direct control for starting and stopping data exchanges. This can be of great help during testing and commissioning phases.	X	X
The Supervisor now takes advantage of LNS-TE lost node detection, widely improving the system responsiveness in case of massive disconnections or power supply issues on the network side - in particular in case of Lonworks® router loss. LNS® package versions lesser than 3.2 are not supported any more.	X	X
The SAIA® protocol now supports PLC timestamping.	X	X
OPC client - The Supervisor passed validation for communication with Sofrel devices, taking advantage of the new Sofrel OPC server. The full range of devices is now supported on all communication media.	X	X

Communication interfaces	End-user	Designer
OPC Server
The OPC-Security specification has been implemented along with other means to restrict unexpected third-party access via the OPC server, thus reducing the attack surface of the Supervisor: The OPC server can be disabled, forbidding any OPC client connection, The OPC server can be configured to require the use of the OPC-Security authentication interfaces when an OPC client tries to connect to the Supervisor, Security can be turned-off in order to accept connections from OPC clients not supporting the standard authentication process.	X	X
More item properties are available for OPC clients. In addition to the minimum and maximum values, and the control level, the following are now available: Binary and text extended attributes, domain, nature, minimum and maximum values for control, threshold values and the simulation flag. The extended attributes, threshold values and the simulation flag can be read and set by OPC clients; the other properties are read-only.		X
In addition to these developments, it is now possible to rule and limit the visibility of data in the address space when the Supervisor is browsed. Access rights can be enforced for browsing and commands. Where the OPC client supports the standard OPC identification interfaces, all connections, disconnections and write operations can be logged in historical data as user actions, along with the name of the OPC client as user name.	X	X

WebVue	End-user	Designer
New features of the log and alarm viewers are mostly available via WebVue: Sort, User selection scripting.	X	X

Configuration environment	End-user	Designer
New Configuration Explorer style dialogs for the following configuration areas: Startup and language settings.		X
The base number for station and association Ids can now be configured, thus facilitating the use of the Networking wizard when a convention exists for numbering stations and associations.		X
Smart Generator
Smart Generator for Siemens® Step7® Import your Step7® project, Automate the configuration of communication objects and variables, Take advantage of the native S7® driver. Synchronization is supported for development and maintenance purposes.	X	X
Smart Generator for WAGO-DALI - Automatically create a full running application to monitor, control and maintain your lighting system based on DALI® and WAGO® controllers. The Smart Generator will add to your project everything necessary to run your lighting system: Monitor and control ballasts' status, groups and scenes, Manage controllers' configuration via FTP - Backup and reload your configuration, Manage ballasts replacement and maintenance, Reconfigure scenes, And many more ...	X	X
Smart Generator for FactoryLink® enhancements: Automatic conversion of Modbus TCP communication objects and mapping, Tag scaling properties are now taken into account.	X	X
Smart Generator for LNS® - Export your selections of device template's network variables and import them into any other project to minimize the integration workload when re-using the SG-LNS from one project to another one.		X
Smart Generator for CAD - Enhancements to provide a graphical tool for matching the AutoCAD® block references with the Supervisor's objects.		X
Smart Generator for XML Generic Import - Bug fixes and enhancements.		X

System requirements

Operating Systems

Only operating systems from the Microsoft® Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2003 Server and Windows 2008 Server families are supported.
Qualified and fully operational:

Windows XP Professional Edition with Service Pack 2 (or later), 32-bit version
Windows Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate Editions
Windows Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate Editions with Service Pack 1
Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate Editions
Windows Server 2003 Standard and Enterprise Editions with SP2 (or later), 32-bit version
Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard and Enterprise Editions, 32-bit version
Windows Server 2008 Standard and Enterprise Editions.

Operational but may have limitations in use. Please contact technical support before using any of these:

Windows XP Embedded with Service Pack 2 (or later)
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005
Windows Vista Home Premium Edition
Windows 7 Home Premium Edition
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and Enterprise Editions
Any operating systems hosted in a system virtual machine such as Microsoft® Virtual PC or VMWare®.

NOT supported:

Windows XP Home Edition
Windows XP Professional Edition, 64-bit versions
Windows Vista Starter and Home Basic Editions
Windows 7 Starter Edition
Windows Server 2003, 64-bit versions
Windows Server 2003 R2, 64-bit versions
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based systems
Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based systems
Windows CE (Windows mobile)

For all operational editions of Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008, both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) processor architectures are supported.

Editions of Windows XP and Windows Vista designated as 'N' or 'KN' versions include the same functionality as the corresponding standard editions, except that they do not include Windows Media Player and related technologies such as Windows Movie Maker.

Browser

Required:

Microsoft® Internet Explorer version 7 or later.

Recommended MINIMUM PC configuration

Processor - 1.0 GHz for 32-bit systems (x86) or 1.4 GHz for 64-bit systems (x64).
System Memory – 1 GB for Windows XP; 2 GB for Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
Available hard disk space – at least 2 GB.
Graphics - Super VGA (1024 × 768 pixels) for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
For Windows Vista and Windows 7, support for DirectX 9 graphics with:

A WDDM display driver,
At least 128 MB of graphics memory,
Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware,
32 bits per pixel.

DVD-ROM drive - Required for installation only.

The above represent the minimum requirements. For advice on specific applications please contact Technical Support.

For information about the Windows’ user rights required to install and run the Supervisor see the Installation help.

Installation

See the Installation help for more information and help about pre-requisites and the installation process itself.