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 slave functionality that is built into the IEC 60870-5 Driver allows a ClearSCADA system to act as an IEC 60870-5 Controlled Station (outstation) and report any data changes back to its Controlling Station (SCADA master station). The slave transmits any changes to its database, or sets values or states in its database, upon request from the SCADA master.
The slave can obtain its data directly from plant, from calculated values, or from any item in the ClearSCADA database. Its SCADA master can be another ClearSCADA server, or a third party server that is using either the IEC 60870-5-101, or IEC 60870-5-104 protocol.
The IEC 60870-5 Driver provides extra functionality within a ClearSCADA server for transmitting data or setting points upon request from an IEC 60870-5 master. When configured as an IEC 60870-5 slave, ClearSCADA uses Filtered Value Maps for mapping point properties into memory, so that they can be accessed using the IEC 60870-5-101, or IEC 60750-5-104 protocol.
This guides summarizes the IEC 60870-5 Terminology of which you need to be aware, and provides detailed information on Configuring IEC 60870-5 Slave Devices in ClearSCADA.
It also explains the IEC 60870-5 slave statistics and diagnostic features. System administrators and engineers may find these features useful when investigating unexpected behavior relating to the IEC 60870-5 driver (see IEC 60870-5 Slave Specific Status Display Attributes).
NOTE: There are no driver-specific pick actions for slave items on the IEC 60870-5 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’).
NOTE: This guide explains how to configure ClearSCADA as an IEC 60870-5 Controlled Station (outstation or RTU). For information on how to configure ClearSCADA as an IEC 60870-5 Controlling Station (SCADA Master), see the ClearSCADA Guide to the IEC 60870-5 Driver.