This driver is an advanced driver. It provides additional functionality to enable ClearSCADA to interface with specific supported devices using a particular protocol. To interact successfully with such devices, you need to:
- Install and run the driver
- Ensure that the driver is licensed
- Configure the required database items and settings on the driver
- Ensure that the database items (and any database items on which they depend) have valid, saved, configuration and are 'In Service'.
The Advanced EcoStruxure Web Services Driver uses a Schneider-defined standard, which allows interoperability between Schneider products and devices. ClearSCADA uses this standard to allow transfer of data between the ClearSCADA server and other Schneider applications.
ATTENTION: Throughout this guide, mentions of the 'Advanced EcoStruxure Web Services Client Driver' are abbreviated to 'Advanced EWS Driver.
The ClearSCADA Advanced EWS Driver is used to read and/or write to data on EWS servers, including:
- ClearSCADA servers
- Other Schneider Electric servers.
The driver enables ClearSCADA to communicate with servers that comply with EcoStruxure Web Services version 1.1version 1.1.
For information about how to configure EWS specific features and items within the ClearSCADA database,(see Configuring EcoStruxure Web Services Devices in ClearSCADA).
This documentation also explains driver-specific aspects of the driver that may be of interest to system administrators and engineers when investigating unexpected system behavior (relating to the Advanced EcoStruxure Web Services Driver). For more information, see EcoStruxure Web Services Specific Status Display Attributes andEcoStruxure Web Services Specific Driver Log File Options.
NOTE: There are no driver-specific pick actions for database items on this particular driver. However, users with the required privileges can add custom pick actions to a database item by using the User Methods tab on the relevant configuration Form (see Using the User Methods Tab to Define Custom Actions in the ClearSCADA Guide to Core Configuration). See a system administrator for the documentation associated with such custom actions (also known as ‘methods’).