[yotool]

Sorry for all of my recent questions on Rapid SCADA beta 6.1…

The current documentation for installing plugins (in my case Dashboard and Chart Pro) is not up to date for v.6.1.

I tried the recommended procedure for installing optional plugins referenced at:

https://rapidscada.net/docs/en/5.8/installation-and-run/module-installation#plugins

but it appears that this document is no longer accurate for v.6.1.

In version 6.1, how do I install these license-required modules?

If I use the existing procedure (even changing the referenced “C:\SCADA” to “C:\Program Files\SCADA”), when I open the “Administrator” application in v.6.1 and go to Instances/Default/Server/Modules, I do not see any new “Unused” modules which were unzippped with their directory hierarchy preserved from the “unzip” process).

Thanks for the assistance.

[yotool]

In the “Communicator”/Line Oprions/Device Polling/Properties/Element Group/Element configuration, it appears that the element “Tag Codes” cannot contain the underscore “_” character?

The dash “-” seems to work OK.

If an uderscore is used in a “Tag Code”, the device “Elements” do not properly register as a “Channel”.

Is that correct?

Thanks.

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[yotool]

Thanks Mikhail.

For the “Server” functionality question, I was not referring ro READing the historial data, but EDITING the existing minute/hourly data as available in the older “server” stand-alone application.

I believe that you were formerly using MS SQL Server Express for the database?

It’s nice that there are now different storage-engine options in v 6.1.

** Where are the selections for various “storage engines” selected and configured?

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[yotool]

** Also for v.6.1 beta there seems to be no “Save” button when editing the objects in the Scada “Administrator” application

It seems like one must hit the “Close” (X) Window button and then a prompt for “Save Changes Yes/No” appears and one can then choose “Save”.

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Woops, I see that is in the far upper-left of the main “Administrator” Application Window.
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[yotool]

** Where is the “Server” application in SCADA v.6.1?

How can one manipulate the historical data in a similar fashion to the previous Rapid SCADA versions?

Thanks as always Mikhail.

[yotool]

*** Is there any documentation for Rapid SCADA v.6.1?

It seems like there are changes to the way that device-“Channels” are assoicated with communication line entities.

No matter how many times I defined (and re-defined) “channel” information, it would never retrive the channel data from the communicator module.

…finally discovered that the “join” between the “channel” definition is the matching “tag code” in the communicator module.

Thanks for including the “Simulator” objects in the default project template.

That ulitimately allowed me to compare every subtle difference in “my” device-channel definitions to the working “simulator” equivalents.

[yotool]

Sorry…

I can be stupid at times.

Although I had the “Windows Firewall” via “Firewall and Network Protection” DISABLED.

The “Window Defender Firewall” was lacking/blocking incoming PERMIT rules for port 10008 (of course).

…maybe others can learn from my mistake :>)

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[yotool]

I see this is a very old thread, but does there now, in any way, exist the possibility to have the excellent Chart Pro plug-in historical capability to increase beyond the hard-coded 32 day time-period?

It would be very useful in some situations.

..like the idea of using the “hourly” summary data to save data retention storage requirements in SQL Server Express for time periods in excess of the current 32-day maximum time-span of the charts.

[yotool]

Yes, agreed but then we are back to the beginning of the issue where this “not saving/associating the Request-Sequence XML file (template) with a device” problem appears to exist with the “latest” version v5.8.2 of Rapid SCADA.

If anything, just curious to know if you can reproduce the issue I am seeing in v.5.8.2.

Thanks.

[yotool]

Acknowledged.

I could not find any way to easily determine which version of Rapid SCADA is installed. Might be nice to have the “About” feature of the Administrator application show the versions of the overall product as wells as the modules. Just a thought.

In any case. I DO have the latest version of Rapid SCADA installed and this does appear to be a bug in version 5.8.2. Would be interested to know if you, or another, can replicate the issue on your end.

I UNinstalled v.5.8.2, INSTALLED 5.7.1, which I had downloaded some time ago, and the problem is gone.

Many thanks.

[yotool]

Sorry, it appears that I DID download and install the latest version of Rapid SCADA 5.8, but when I looked for the version I had installed before posting this issue, I used the “About” button for the “Administrator” sub-application which displays 5.5.2.0.

The installer/uninstaller does show v.5.8.

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[yotool]

Sorry to have bother you my friend; maybe someone else may find this useful however…

I figured it out.

It was the OS-level file/directory permissions of the “/var/www/html/scada/” directory and its sub-contents.

The original “ownership” was set by Ubuntu as “me” (my user id used to install the software), and the originally installed user/group permissions did not include “Read” for others.

I just whacked it using:
sudo chmod -R 755 * on “/var/www/html/scada/”.

[yotool]

Duh!!!

I had assumed that as the SNMP portion (comm channel) of Rapid Scada was installed by default, that the “answering“-side (the Windows SNMP service itself)was already similarly both installed and configured.

…and we all know what is generally said about assuming :>)

Thanks once again Mikhail. Your reply immediately lead me in the right direction to solve this Communicator Module SNMP Channel Error issue.

It turns out that I

DID NOT

even have the SNMP services installed and running on the Windows 10 Professional host machine which is actually running the Rapid Scada platform.

I therefore installed this Windows Feature and then created the required public Community Name and READ_ONLY rights>READ_ONLY rights.

..then after restarting the Communicator Module/Service, all was “well again under the sun”.

…greatly appreciate your help.

[yotool]

Sorry for the multiple posts, but I could not find a forum pose “edit” feature.

LINQ: .NET Language-Integrated Query (interesting possible approach…)

The answer to my question about the existing archive data file editor sub-app is also answered via the GitHub source code for that object/app:

(.Net C#)
* Product : Rapid SCADA
* Module : SCADA-Server Control
* Summary : Editing or viewing snapshot table form

One cool thing is that this archive data editing can all be tested/manipulated completely OFFLINE simply by copying one or more target archive data files locally “to play with”.

Nice work!

[yotool]

…just so that you know that I did try to find a solution by searching, I did also find these existing topics/documents (nobody likes a lazy forum user repeatedly asking questions already answered):

Modyfying Archive Data Forum Post

and

Rapid SCADA Integration

I was just looking for something quick-and-easy”.

You did show some good info about how this .NET DatTableobject and the SrezTableLight “entrancement” are implemented. Most of this is table-READ based however.

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