Debug Runtime

Debugging Plant SCADA's runtime system involves two processes:

• Gathering information about Runtime

• Analyzing logged data to identify problems.

The information gathered from your system will include:

• Hardware alarms

• Log files.

Hardware alarms are typically displayed on a dedicated alarm page to alert operators to current problems.

Log Files are a record of time-stamped system data that can be analyzed to determine the cause of a problem.

This information can be analyzed directly to identify problems, or you can use the Plant SCADA Kernel to perform advanced debugging.

The Kernel can perform low-level diagnostic and debugging operations, and runtime analysis of your Plant SCADA system. Use it to display low-level data structures, runtime databases, statistics, debug traces, network traffic, I/O device traffic and so on.

You can also call built-in Cicode function or user-written Cicode functions, and use the Cicode Profiler to view how your Cicode is performing.

Note: The process involved in debugging device communications is described in the Communicating With I/O Devices section of the help. See Troubleshooting Device Communications.

See Also

System Tuning