Installing a Driver Pack

In some cases, a required driver may not be included among those available on the Plant SCADA installer. This may occur if a driver is new, has been recently updated, or is not included with the installer due to its ongoing maintenance classification. If this is the case, you will need to obtain a Driver Pack and install it separately.

Note: Check the Communication Drivers page at the AVEVA Knowledge and Support Center for information about driver updates and new driver pack releases.

You need to install a driver pack on the computer that will connect to the target device. This computer needs to be configured as a Plant SCADA I/O server. It needs to be also be installed on any machines where the Plant SCADA project is compiled.

Before installing the driver pack, close your Plant SCADA runtime environment and Plant SCADA Studio. You need administrator permissions for the I/O server PC.

To install a driver pack:

1. Save the driver pack to an appropriate location on the I/O Server PC.

2. Double-click the EXE file to launch the installation.

3. Follow the instructions provided by the installation Wizard.

4. You are prompted to select the Plant SCADA installation folder. If you installed Plant SCADA in a different folder to the default, browse to that location. An alert message will alert you if you have selected the wrong folder.

5. Click Finish to complete the installation.

After you have installed a Driver Pack, the associated help will be automatically merged into the Driver Reference Help.

Note: If you are installing a driver pack on an older version of Plant SCADA that precedes the initial release of the driver, the supporting help may not appear automatically in the Driver Reference Help. If this is the case, you can locate the driver help in the Plant SCADA bin directory. The help file will be named <drivername>.chm.

See Also

The Driver Reference Help