On a ClearSCADA system, you configure the ClearSCADA database so that entries in the database correspond to the plant and measuring instruments on your system. This section summarizes the database items that you need to configure to represent the Phoenix devices with which ClearSCADA is to communicate using the IEC 60870-5-101 protocol.
To represent any such devices, the IEC 60870-5 driver (including the Phoenix PSTN component) has to be installed and running on the ClearSCADA servers on your system (see Confirm that the Required ClearSCADA Components are Installed).
When you configure IEC 60870-5 Phoenix items in the ClearSCADA database, many of the settings for those items need to correspond to the settings of the relevant Phoenix devices on your system. Some settings are either fixed (incorporated into the design of the device), or are configured by an engineer. You need to have access to, or an understanding of, the settings of the Phoenix devices on your system before you can configure the IEC 60870-5 Phoenix database items successfully.
Each IEC 60870-5 device, including ClearSCADA, has an interoperability Profile document that describes what functionality is provided. For each Phoenix device with which you want ClearSCADA to communicate using the IEC 60870-5-101 protocol, refer to that device’s interoperability Profile document to compare the supported features of that device against the IEC features that ClearSCADA supports (and that are listed as such in ClearSCADA’s interoperability Profile document). You also need to be aware of the address settings and any options that are set on your devices. You can then refer to this ClearSCADA Guide to the IEC 60870-5 Phoenix Driver and the ClearSCADA Guide to the IEC 60870-5 Driver for information on how to configure those features and options in ClearSCADA.
You also need to be aware of which optional features are required for each IEC 60870-5 Phoenix item. These features include:
- Alarm views
- Alarm redirections
- Historic data storage
- User methods.
You can also use core ClearSCADA features with IEC 60870-5 Phoenix database items, including Lists, Actions, and Mimics. For actions that are specific to IEC 60870-5 database items, see Using IEC 60870-5 Specific Actions in the ClearSCADA Guide to the IEC 60870-5 Driver. For further information on actions and details on Lists and Mimics, see the core documentation.
For each Phoenix device with which ClearSCADA is to communicate using the IEC 60870-5-101 protocol, you need to configure:
- An IEC 60870-5 Phoenix PSTN Channel to represent each telephone line connection between the ClearSCADA server and the Phoenix outstations on your system (see Configuring an IEC 60870-5 Phoenix PSTN Channel).
- An IEC 60870-5 Phoenix PSTN Outstation Set to define each group of Phoenix outstations (see Configuring an IEC 60870-5 Phoenix PSTN Outstation Set).
- An IEC 60870-5 Phoenix PSTN Outstation to represent each Phoenix outstation or similar Phoenix device that monitors data and/or controls plant (see Configuring an IEC 60870-5 Phoenix PSTN Outstation).
- An IEC 60870-5 Point to represent each analog or digital measuring instrument or control device that is connected to each IEC 60870-5 Phoenix PSTN outstation (see Points Used on IEC 60870-5 Phoenix PSTN Outstations, and see Points Used on IEC 60870-5 Outstations in the ClearSCADA Guide to the IEC 60870-5 Driver).
To minimize the time that it takes to configure the required database items, you may want to configure them in the order listed above, as outstation configuration requires you to specify a set, and point configuration requires you to specify an outstation, and so on. (With PSTN outstations, the association with a channel is only made during runtime.)
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