RapidSCADA on Linux/Ubuntu

[gianguido]

I have successfully installed RS on Ubuntu. Windows is for me a total NO OPTION, I need to carry out everything in a Linux environment. In order to access the configuration files I have developed a Python program to read them and build a spreadsheet, which can be edited with LibreOffice Calc 😉 A second program converts from the spreadsheet to the .DAT files in scada/BaseDAT.

On testing, the user database worked out fine, I could log in with login and password that were defined in the Spreadsheet.

However, the actual process parameters did not work. the new incnl.dat file contains only few parameters, but all the old ones are still visible in the default test version. So they must be stored somewhere else, but where then?

In the RS Unix version there isn’t any button to commit the edited parameters to the real-time database.

Further, on the Unix version it is not possible to find any command to configure the communication channels the way that it is described online in “Communication with Devices Configuration”. Considering that parameters such as PortName, BaudRate, DataBits etc. are not stored in the .DAT tables, how can they be configured, even if a Windows Workstation is used to set them?

Is there an API with protocol-like instructions described somewhere?

It would be GREAT if RapidSCADA could be used fully on a Unix environment, even if that requires some additional workload for parametrization etc.

Thankful for Your reply.

• This topic was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by gianguido.

[manjey73]

Further, on the Unix version it is not possible to find any command to configure the communication channels the way that it is described online in “Communication with Devices Configuration”. Considering that parameters such as PortName, BaudRate, DataBits etc. are not stored in the .DAT tables, how can they be configured, even if a Windows Workstation is used to set them?

….. /scada/ScadaComm/Config – ScadaCommSvcConfig.xml

All the settings of the communication lines – port boadrate etc So there the configuration files, Email and all the rest of the equipment

Also see configuration files in ….. /scada/ScadaServer/Config

For example setting ModeAutoControl.xml if it is installed

I advise you to install Windows (trial version) in a virtual machine to understand what and where is and how is configured

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by manjey73.

[gianguido]

Thank you very much, Manjey73! I checked the .xml files you indicated and it looks indeed that they describe the configuration of the com channels. I shall test something with trial-and-error.

Ref. Windows. I was an active and convinced user of MS products for 25 years. Not any more, with several reasons for that. The option to install Windows in any form, even on a virtual machine, is for me out of question. Better to edit the .xml files by hand)))

[manjey73]

It is not so simple. Part of the xml configuration do not work if this is set to true in another parameter. In this case, data is retrieved directly from the database

[Mikhail]

gianguido, be free to ask follow up questions.
What XML editor do you use in Ubuntu?

[Mikhail]

Theoretically, it is possible to port the UI, but this is hard work. See this screenshot made by our user.

[gianguido]

I use a plain text editor, gedit. My goal is to work with as simple tools as possible to map real-world parameters into RapidSCADA data structures. With the .dat tables it worked, I can now edit them via a spreadsheet application.

[Mikhail]

I suppose, there are many text editors for XML which support collapsing and expanding XML nodes.

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