Upload and Compare agents

With the help of agents, the upload and comparison of device and project data in octoplant can be carried out decentrally and, if necessary, in parallel.

The agents can be used for all device and Data types supported by octoplant. In addition, HMI Upload and Compare agents are 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
• Installing and updating agents

• Starting agents and VDog MasterService as applications

• Enabling Known Host authentication for secure connections to agent stations

• Automatic coupling of the agents with the server

• Unlinking the agents from the server
• Configuring communication between the agent and the server
• Assigning an agent to a job
• Assigning compare agents for version comparison
• Uninstalling Agents