Citect SCADA 2015 Release Notes

New features and enhancements

• Alarm Server Upgrade

• Backup and Restore Included Projects

• Incremental Equipment Update

• Link a Genie to an Equipment Type

• Partial Associations can be used with Dynamic Associations

• Running Plant SCADA as a Windows Service

• Extended Memory Mode

• OPC Factory Server Version Update

• Time Scheduler support for Swedish and Norwegian.

Citect.ini parameter updates

The following Citect.ini parameters have been introduced or modified in this release.

New Parameters

• 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

Reinstated Parameters

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.

Cicode function updates

The following Cicode functions have been introduced or modified in this release.

New Functions

• .Net Functions

  DllClassDispose	Use this function to clean up resources used by the .Net object and any other .Net objects created via the use of the object.
  DllClassCreate	Use this function to instantiate a new .Net object by specifying the path, class and arguments required for the matching constructor of the class.
  DllClassGetProperty	Use this function to get a property of the .Net object.
  DllClassIsValid	Use this function to validate class. Uses the handle of the class returned from DllClassCreate.
  DllClassCallMethod	Use this function to call a method of a .Net object, passing in the method name and any arguments required for the matching prototype of the method.
  DllClassSetProperty	Use this function to set a property of the .Net object. The property may be of any type or an object itself.

Modified Functions

No functions have been modified for Citect SCADA 2015.

Reinstated Functions

• Alarm Functions

  AlarmDelete	Deletes alarm summary entries that are currently displayed.
  AlarmSplit	Splits an alarm summary entry which has no Off time.
  AlarmSumAppend	Appends a new blank record to the alarm summary.
  AlarmSumCommit	Commits the alarm summary record to the alarm summary device.
  AlarmSumDelete	Deletes alarm summary entries.
  AlarmSumFind	Finds an alarm summary index for an alarm record and alarm on time.
  AlarmSumFirst	Gets the oldest alarm summary entry.
  AlarmSumGet	Gets field information from an alarm summary entry.
  AlarmSumLast	Gets the latest alarm summary entry.
  AlarmSumNext	Gets the next alarm summary entry.
  AlarmSumPrev	Gets the previous alarm summary entry.
  AlarmSumSet	Sets field information in an alarm summary entry.
  AlarmSumSplit	Duplicates an alarm summary entry.
  AlarmSumType	Retrieves a value that indicates a specified alarm's type.

Deprecated Functions

No functions have been deprecated for Citect SCADA 2015.

Removed Functions

No functions have been removed for Citect SCADA 2015.