This driver is a simple 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 Mitsubishi Driver provides extra functionality to allow a ClearSCADA system to be populated with data from, and control points on, Mitsubishi Slaves or Mitsubishi PLCs. The driver allows ClearSCADA to communicate with:
- Mitsubishi Slaves
- The MELSEC A range of MitsubishiTM PLCs
(using Transmission Control Protocol Format 1) - Third-party PLCs that communicate using the Mitsubishi MELSEC A protocol.
The ClearSCADA Mitsubishi documentation explains how to configure Mitsubishi-specific features and items within the ClearSCADA database (see Configuring Mitsubishi Devices in ClearSCADA and see Mitsubishi Data Address Ranges).
It also explains the driver-specific status attributes. These attributes may be useful to system administrators and engineers when investigating unexpected system behavior (relating to the driver) (see Mitsubishi Specific Status Display Attributes).
NOTE: There are no driver-specific pick actions for items on the Mitsubishi 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’).
ClearSCADA communicates with Mitsubishi PLCs using Transmission Control Protocol Format 1(see The Transmission Control Protocol Supported by ClearSCADA).
For PLC information not covered by this guide, see the Mitsubishi documentation supplied with Mitsubishi PLCs.
For information on configuring ClearSCADA so that it can communicate as a Mitsubishi Slave, see the ClearSCADA Guide to the Mitsubishi Slave Driver.