Start a Global Project

Once the Global daemon files have been configured, Global will operate in the same way that it has historically done so for Remote Procedure Call (RPC).

Start a Global Project section summarizes in brief how to start an instance of Global on a machine. Throughout the section reference is made to the Global User Guide which describes then standard process of starting a daemon. Any differences in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) configuration are clearly highlighted in this section.

The administrator must first prepare a project in the base product for use with Global, refer to Making the Project Global for further information.

In brief the administrator must load the Admin module within the base product and issue the following commands at the command line to convert the project for Global use:

Lock

make global

unlock

The user must continue to refer to the AVEVA Global User Guide to Initialise the hub location, refer to Single Project Service for further information.

Navigate to the Global Server install path:

C:\AVEVA\GlobalServer3.2.3

Make sure that the evars batch file name is correct for the project.

call "%projects_dir%\AvevaPlantSample\evarsAvevaPlantSample.bat" "%projects_dir%"

From the Windows Command Line run the singleds.bat file by using the following syntax:

singleds start aps

The following output is displayed in the command line: