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SI7 Version 7.22 Release Notes 03/11/03 This document is available from the Start menu in the program group specified at the time of installation. Contents A. Required Software B. General Information C. Known Issues D. Troubleshooting D.1 Automatically Starting the SI7 Driver A. REQUIRED SOFTWARE The SI7 driver requires the following software: * Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2 or greater, Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6a or greater, or Windows XP with Service Pack 1 or greater. * Internet Explorer 5.0 or greater. * Hardware key driver, if you are using a keyed Intellution product. To determine if you need the hardware key driver on your computer, you must identify which Intellution applications run on your computer. Some Intellution applications require a hardware key, while others do not. For example, the iHistorian Server requires a hardware key, but the iHistorian Collector does not. If you are not sure if the applications you are running require a hardware key, check the key requirements for each application. If you determine that you need a hardware key, use the information provided here to install a hardware key driver. The November, 2002, Drivers CD and greater contains an option that lets you install the device driver directly from the CD. Earlier Drivers CDs do not contain this option, and the hardware key is not installed with the driver. Similarly, if you install a SIM from Intellution�s web site, http://support.intellution.com/downloads/drivers, and you do not have a hardware key driver installed, you must use the November, 2002, Drivers CD or greater to obtain the device drivers for the hardware key. If you are using the C-Plus B or the Super Pro hardware key, you may also obtain the driver from the Rainbow Technologies web site, www.rainbow.com, using these procedures as a guide: [1] Point your browser to www.rainbow.com. [2] Click Downloads at the bottom of the screen. [3] Locate the Sentinel System Driver and then download it. [4] Unzip the file and then run the setup program. [5] Restart your computer when prompted. When the computer starts up, install the driver using the instructions on the screen. IMPORTANT: Before you install a driver, be sure to close the Power Tool and shut down all Intellution applications that check the hardware key. * The SI7 driver supports SIMATIC NET Industrial Communication Software from the Siemens' July, 2001 + SP 4 CD (v6.0), SIMATIC NET Industrial Communication Software from the Siemens' May, 2000 CD (v5.x), and SIMATIC NET Industrial Communication Software from the November 2002 CD (v6.1). B. GENERAL INFORMATION * If you are using Profibus communication and you enable the PC is the Only Master on the Bus checkbox, you may encounter network disruptions after reconnecting to your Profibus network. Likewise, if you are using the MPI port to communicate and you clear the PC is the Only Master on the Bus checkbox, S7 300 PLCs may encounter network disruptions in their TCP or Industrial Ethernet communication after reconnecting to the MPI network. In both configurations, refer to your Siemens documentation for more information on how to configure this checkbox for your application. * Set the reply timeout in the Power Tool to 5 seconds or more to ensure optimum ISO and TCP communication. * The SI7 driver should be stopped before importing, reloading, or generating a process database. * The SI7 driver does not support Standby or Hibernation modes. You can enable or disable these modes with the Power Options applet in Control Panel. * 7.x drivers no longer use the Period field in Mission Control. Likewise, the Datascope button in Mission Control is not supported for 7.x driver. Use the Power Tool's datascope instead. * The SI7 driver has an Overruns field in the Power Tool at the driver, channel, device, and datablock statistics level. You can use this field as a troubleshooting tool to assist in optimization. The presence of overruns do not necessarily indicate a problem. Any of the following conditions can cause overruns: * Bandwidth saturation on your network. * Turnaround delays in the PLC. * Overflowing message queues in the process hardware. Please refer to the SI7 Online Help for more information on overruns. You can find information on overruns by displaying the driver statistics in the Power Tool, selecting the Overruns field, and pressing the F1 key. * Do not install or uninstall a new version of the SI7 driver while an old version is running. Always stop and exit the driver before installing or uninstalling new version of the SI7 driver. * All S5TI signal conditioning is displayed as TBCD signal conditioning when you import a S_7 6.x driver configuration. Likewise, if you enter S5TI as the signal conditioning you want to use, it is converted automatically to TBCD signal conditioning. C. KNOWN ISSUES The SI7 driver has the following known issues: * Siemens reports that SIMATIC NET 6.0 and 6.1 have timing issues when run as a service. Consequently, you may experience problems running the SI7 driver as a service when using SIMATIC NET 6.0 or 6.1. If you require running as a service, Intellution recommends that you test your configuration prior to deploying it to the factory floor. Alternatively, you can use SIMATIC NET 5.x as a service without any issue. * At the time of release, the SI7 driver supports exception-based processing for Analog Input and Digital Input blocks only. * Intellution does not recommend the use of the Auto Create option when the Hardware Options field is used in the database to override default data types. If you require Database Manager to create new datablocks automatically, verify that all database blocks that use the Hardware Options field reference valid datablock ranges. * Starting the driver with a large configuration may cause a message box with the following text to appear: The driver can't start because it is processing a previous stop request. Please try again. This message appears because SIMATIC NET is cleaning up connections from a previous stop request. Once you dismiss the message box, wait for SIMATIC NET to clean up all connections in the driver configuration. The amount of time this requires depends on the protocol in use. ISO and TCP communications can take up to 2 minutes to resolve themselves. Once SIMATIC NET cleans up all the connections, you can start the driver by selecting the Start button in the Power Tool. D. TROUBLESHOOTING Only use the SI7 server window for troubleshooting. When you are not debugging a problem, disable all debug messages and close the server window. Leaving debug messages enabled or leaving the SI7 server window open degrades driver performance. If you experience difficulty running the SI7 driver with FIX or iFIX installed, refer to the following section for information on how to resolve the problem. D.1 AUTOMATICALLY STARTING THE SI7 DRIVER When you install the SI7 driver, the installation program creates a driver configuration file called nodename.SI7. FIX/iFIX uses this file when you automatically start the driver. If you subsequently change the name of your SCADA server after installing the driver, FIX/iFIX cannot automatically start the driver because the name of the node does not match the name of the configuration file. To correct this, rename the configuration file to match the name of your SCADA server. For example, if you change the name of the SCADA server from SCADA