On a ClearSCADA system, you configure the ClearSCADA database so that entries in the database correspond to the plant, measuring instruments, and control devices on your system. This section summarizes the database items that you need to configure to represent the Totalflow devices on your system.
To represent any such devices, theTotalflow Driver has to be installed and running on the ClearSCADA servers on your system. The ClearSCADA Totalflow Driver supports communication with Totalflow devices that support ABB’s DB2 (Database 2) communications protocol. This includes Model 6400, 6700 and XSeries devices.
When you configure Totalflow items in the ClearSCADA database, many of the settings for those items need to correspond to the settings of the relevant Totalflow 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 Totalflow devices on your system before you can configure the Totalflow database items successfully.
Each Totalflow device, including ClearSCADA, has an document that describes what functionality is provided by the device. For each device with which you want ClearSCADA to communicate refer to that device’s documentation to compare the supported features of that device against the Totalflow features that ClearSCADA supports (and that are listed as such in ClearSCADA's interoperability 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 Totalflow 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 Totalflow item. These features include:
- Alarm views
- Alarm redirections
- Historic data storage
- User methods.
You can also use core ClearSCADA features with Totalflow database items, including Lists, Actions, and Mimics. For actions that are specific to the Totalflow driver, see Using Totalflow Specific Actions. For further information on actions and details on Lists and Mimics, see the core documentation.
For each Totalflow device with which ClearSCADA is to communicate you need to configure:
- A Totalflow Channel to represent each communication between a Totalflow device and the ClearSCADA server (see Totalflow Channel).
- A Totalflow Scanner to represent each scanner connected to the ClearSCADA server (see Totalflow Scanner).
- At least one of the following Totalflow points to represent a Totalflow device:
To minimize the time that it takes to configure the required Totalflow items, you may want to configure them in the order listed above, as Scanner configuration requires you to specify a Channel, and Point configuration requires that you specify a Scanner, and so on.
Further Information
Data Tables are generic database objects. For information about configuring a Data Table to hold Totalflow events, see Event Data Table.