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Siemens SIMATIC WinCC flexible

octoplant supports the management of SIMATIC WinCC flexible projects and enables the automatic creation of backups and the cyclical monitoring of the HMI for these.

Device support level

Figure: Device Support Level Siemens SIMATIC WinCC flexible

Key features

Figure: Siemens SIMATIC WinCC flexible Key features

Workflow

Figure: Workflow Siemens SIMATIC WinCC flexible

System requirements

WinCC flexible 2005 2006 2007 2008 SP3 2008 SP5
octoplant 101 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Other requirements

The WinCC flexible comparator requires a valid installation of a database for the comparison. The general database driver is the MS SQL server.

SQL instances for the WinCC flexible Versions on the devices running the comparison

WinCC flexible Version MS Data Engine 97 MS Data Engine 2000 MS Data Engine XP MS Access 97 MS Access 2000 MS SQL Server 7.0 MS SQL Server 2000 MS SQL Server 2005 MS SQL Server 2014
2004 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
2005 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
2007 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
2008 ✓ ✓ ✓
2008 SP5 ✓

Restriction

  • It is possible to upload recipe data from the HMIs if they are accessible via a network share. Under certain conditions, which depend on your network environment and the devices used, it is not possible to upload (e.g. restricted access rights).

FAQ

The comparison of my WinCC flexible projects fail, although a suitable SQL instance is installed

Explanation

If the name of the SQL Server instance on the affected client system differs from the default name (WINCC or WINCCFLEXEXPRESS), octoplant cannot access it.

octoplant assumes one of these names, as these are set in the majority of installations of the SQL Server included with WinCC/WinCC flexible.

Solution

If the name of the SQL Server instance differs from the default, this name must be made known to octoplant.

In the following example, the instance name is set to MSSQLEXPRESS:

  1. Navigate to the directory vdClientArchive\VD$A\Configuration\Compare.

  2. Open the AgentStation.ini file, if this does not exist, you can create it with any text editor.

  3. Insert the following content, depending on whether you want to compare WinCC or WinCC flexible (MSSQLEXPRESS is the example name of the SQL instance):

[WinCC]
7030=MSSQLEEXPRESS

[WinCCFlexible]
7050=MSSQLEXPRESS

Warning

Please note that if the instance name WINCC or WINCCFLEXEXPRESS is entered via the above entry, which corresponds to the standard names, octoplant also expects an installed editor in addition to the SQL instance.

If this editor is not installed, the comparison will fail.

This means that if no WinCC editor is installed, WINCC or WINCCFLEXEXPRESS must not be entered as the instance name.

Info

Instructions for installing the "Microsoft SQL server 2005 Express Edition" can be requested from the support department.