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Citect​.ini Parameters in Citect SCADA 2015

  • Last UpdatedJul 13, 2023
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This topic lists the parameters that have changed in Citect SCADA 2015.

New Parameters

The following parameters are new or have been altered in this release.

Alarm Parameters

[Alarm]AlarmListRequestTimeout

Specifies the length of time (in seconds) that an alarm display will wait to receive data from all clusters.

[Alarm]DBLogDBServer

Use to turn on logging for the ClearSCADA Database Server.

[Alarm]DBLogHistoric

When set to 119 this parameter provides logging of historic ClearSCADA data.

[Alarm]DBLogServerCore

Used to find redundancy and synchronization issues.

[Alarm]DeltaTimeUpdate

Determines if DeltaTime (duration) field is set on non-OFF alarms by calculating volatile duration between current time and the time when the alarm was activated.

[Alarm]DisableSOE

Used to turn off the processing for the event journal.

[Alarm]DisableSummary

Allows a user to turn off processing for the summary events in the alarm server.

[Alarm]IsolationDetectInterval

Sets the interval between ICMP packets to detect network isolation on alarm servers.

[Alarm]IsolationDetectIP1

Determines status of the disconnected alarm server when network communication has been interrupted.

[Alarm]IsolationDetectIP2

Determines status of the disconnected alarm server when network communication has been interrupted.

[Alarm]IsolationDetectRetryCount

Sets the ICMP retry count to detect network isolation on alarm servers.

[Alarm]MaxQueryExecuteTime

Creates a log entry if an internal SQL query takes longer than a specified amount of time.

[Alarm]MemoryWarningLimit

Value in Mb, of the threshold of the alarm server memory.

[Alarm]SummaryAutoRefreshMode

Represents the default value for AlarmSetInfo type 15.

[Alarm]SummaryTimeoutTolerance

The length of time from timeout after which an alarm summary entry is committed to Summary Device regardless the fact that Off Time is not set.

Alarm Process Parameters

[Alarm<ClusterName><ServerName>]IsolationDetectInterval

Sets the interval between ICMP packets to detect network isolation on alarm servers.

[Alarm<ClusterName><ServerName>]IsolationDetectIP1

Determines status of the disconnected alarm server when network communication has been interrupted.

[Alarm<ClusterName><ServerName>]IsolationDetectIP2

Determines status of the disconnected alarm server when network communication has been interrupted.

[Alarm<ClusterName><ServerName>]IsolationDetectRetryCount

Sets the ICMP retry count to detect network isolation on alarm servers.

CtEdit Parameters

[CtEdit]
IncrementalEquipmentUpdate

Determines whether an incremental equipment update will occur.

DBClient Parameters

[DBClient]Enabled

Enables ODBC logging.

[DBClient]FileBase

Specifies a location for the ODBC log files.

[DBClient]MaxFiles

Specifies the maximum number of ODBC log files that are retained.

[DBClient]MaxSize

Specifies the maximum size for an ODBC log file (in kilobytes).

[DBClient]OldFiles

Specifies the maximum number of log file sets that can be retained.

LAN Parameters

[LAN]HeartbeatPeriod

Controls how frequently a tran channel sends a heartbeat packet to the other peer.

[LAN]HeartbeatTimeout

Controls how much idle time on network is accepted prior to dropping the tran connection.

Modified Parameters

[Alarm]DisplayDisable

In Plant SCADA 2015, when you set this parameter to 1 (disabled alarms are suppressed), disabled alarm will now be listed on the Alarm Summary page.

[Debug]CategoryFilter

New alarm filters are now supported.

[LAN]EarliestLegacyVersion

The allowable values were updated and the default value is now "7500".

Reinstated Parameters

[Alarm]StartTimeout

Sets the timeout period for loading each packet from the primary Alarms Server. This parameter has been reinstated for v2015 only.

Obsolete Parameters

Alarm Parameters

[Alarm]ArgyleTagValueTimeout

Defines the length of time that the alarm server will wait for argyle tag values to become available (without error) before starting to scan for argyle alarms.

[Alarm]DefaultSOETimeRange

Applies a time range filter to all SOE queries.

[Alarm]SOERowLimit

Defined the maximum number of SOE rows per cluster that can be displayed on an SOE page.

[Alarm]SummaryLength

The maximum number of alarm summary entries that can be held in memory.

[Alarm]SumStateFix

Determined whether an alarm summary entry maintained its state information when the alarm changed to an OFF state.

LAN Parameters

[LAN]KeepAliveInterval

Sets the length of time between two keep alive transmissions by the client.

[LAN]KeepAliveTime

Sets the length of time between two keep alive transmissions in idle conditions.

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