Address Forwarding Parameters

Use address forwarding to override the IP addresses that have been configured inside the project for the server processes. This allows you to quickly transfer responsibility of a server to another computer, or redirect a client to a different server. Address forwarding allows you to override the network address for each Plant SCADA server or client with a different address and port.

Forwarding is achieved by adding a special section to the Citect.ini.

[AddressForwarding]

<ClusterName>.<ServerName>=<IPv4 ipaddress>:<port>

Or:

[AddressForwarding]

<ClusterName>.<ServerName>=<[IPv6] ipaddress>:<port>

Address forwarding is only interpreted and checked at startup of Plant SCADA Runtime. Run the Computer Setup Wizard to confirm your changes. This is useful especially for Time Servers where you can configure a redirected Server as a new time server.

Note: When using this feature the compiler will not be able to apply consistency checks to your configuration. Therefore, you should not use this feature as the primary mechanism of specifying server/client communications.

See Also

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