Upload and Compare agents

With the help of agents, the upload and comparison of device and project data in Octoplant can be carried out in a decentralized way and, if necessary, in parallel.

The agents can be used for all device and data types supported by Octoplant. Upload and Compare agents are also available for WinCC, which enable the upload and comparison of HMI runtimes (in running operation).

Advantages of Upload and Compare agents

• Decentralized job execution to increase performance and load distribution during job execution.
• Task distribution and parallelization.
• No editor installations required on the server or the clients.
• No hardware upgrades or conversions required for the server or the clients.
• Automated SmartUpdate of the agents during server updates.
• Online backup of HMI runtimes during operation.

Related topics

• Use cases
• Functionality
• Install and update agents

• Start agent services and VDog MasterService as applications

• Enable Known Host authentication for secure connections to agent stations

• Automatic pairing of the agents with the server

• Unpair the agents from the server
• Configure communication between the agents and the server
• Assign agents to a job
• Assign compare agents for version comparison
• Uninstall agents