Re: telnet_mail and a poke at contact information.
Hi Duc, I did the write up on the various methods of e-mailing. I would be willing to write it up more formally for the FAQ. I'll have it to you by Friday. As far as contact information goes: This is kind of silly. It is ridiculously easy to make an alternate e-mail address and subscribe to the list server. Are we really going to start making phone calls before we answer questions on the list? Most of the information provided here is freely available to anyone willing to read the Foxboro manual set (although the list is often helpful with the interpretation, tricks, etc). If this is a real security concern then we should start sending PGP authenticated signatures with the messages, and do we really want that? I am also sending Mark Holts latitude and longitude to our spy satellites to see if he is really there. Regards, David Johnson Of course I'm who I say I am, why would anyone want to be me. Premier System Integrators (256) 355-1732 --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More on Archestra
James Kahlden gave a link to Wonderware's website about ArchestrA http://www.wonderware.com/Aboutus/news/archive/010626-ArchestrA.htm And today my Managing Automation issue had an article about it. http://www.managingautomation.com/Scripts/WebObjects.exe/ma.woa/4/wo/a5c87UX 7hKL02dH8QWv32a2OUuO/4.1.172.25.11.0.3.1.1.6 Here is a brief section of the article quoted out of context. (I gave you the link, read it yourself!) Bear in mind the guy quoted does not work for Invensys, so it's just his speculation. [ As much as ArchestrA will benefit Wonderware and its customers, it could be an even bigger advantage to parent Invensys. Imagine the benefits ArchestrA would bring as the underlying framework for all Invensys products, with products from the various divisions all leveraging the framework for standard services. Craig Resnick, director of hybrid manufacturing research for ARC Advisory Group (Dedham, MA), believes ArchestrA will be the foundation for all Invensys software products. He says, ArchestrA is the glue that lets customers centralize licensing and revision control, and coordinates all of the software that's running on the floor. It'll also be a platform they can take to third parties to build products to plug-and-play with the infrastructure. In the beginning, the biggest benefit will be to all Invensys plants that need to manage software from Foxboro, Baan, and other Invensys divisions and really create a sensor-to-boardroom solution. ] The article was pretty good, but not very specific as to how all the pieces are supposed to fit together. Regards, David I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of the communist party Johnson Premier System Integrators (256) 355-1732 --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What the future holds.
Hey gang, I just got this in my weekly ARCwire email and thought some of you might be interested. [ Invensys Software has announced a new ability to deliver open, unified automation and information solutions for process, batch, discrete, and hybrid manufacturing applications. The common platform is build around the Invensys ArchestrA framework, which has been in development since 1998. It will be used to unify the Invensys Foxboro, APV, Wonderware, Triconex, Esscor, and Simulation Sciences products for broader applicability across all manufacturing industry and application domains. The common architecture, which will run on Microsoft technology, will offer a migration path for customers, greater ease of use, scalability, and more functionality. ] Let us dissect the last sentence. The common architecture, (we're putting all of our development effort into one platform) which will run on Microsoft technology(no surprise here), will offer a migration path for customers(Solaris users are in trouble), greater ease of use (always promised, seldom delivered), scalability (You can mix and match NT, 2000 and XP), and more functionality(comes with Excel plug-ins). At least that's my take on it. Any of you guys familiar with this ArchestrA stuff? I'd like to know what you think. Regards, David --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MKS toolkit vi (a new thread!)
Alex, That should read: Not all commercial products are bad things. Speaking of the MKS toolkit. http://www.mkssoftware.com/ The MKS toolkit is very helpful to have around since the 70 series platform makes use of it. If you buy it from MKS, you get really good hardcopy documentation, man pages that work (Hell Foxboro!) and some other nifty utilities and features, including vi vi for windows (viw). It's been very helpful to me and cost less than $500 for a single user developers kit. Regards, David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Return Receipt Notification to the mail list.
I notice that return receipt notification puts this in the header of the headache inducing message. Disposition-Notification-To: Followed by the e-mail address to respond to. Would it be possible to bounce these messages from the server before they get posted? Then people wouldn't have to worry about automatic notification. Just a thought. David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File system error massege
If you suspect a disk is full, first you need to determine which mount point is full. From vt100 mode try the following df -k / df -k /usr df -k /var df -k /opt df -k /tmp If any of these are show 100% under the capacity, then that's the file system with the problem. Start looking for the usual suspects like core files, crash files, tar files, or log files that grow forever. Now start drilling through the disk using the du command to find these really large files, if they can safely be deleted, whack them. Good luck, David --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FoxCAE Enhancements
I don't know exactly how to put this, but every time I use FoxCAE for any serious work I feel like I have to beat the software into submission. It is very non-intuitive. Window conventions, icons, etc. are weird. It occasionally crashes! It is possible to go into the sheet editor and modify sheets such that nothing can print. Standard page setups are inadequate for large plots. Help is inconsistent where it is available. It does not handle PLB logic. It does not handle sequence logic(HLBL). It doesn't show (find) unsecured sets on parameters. I like the graphical loop idea, I think some of the features of CAE are really neat, but it is one of the most aggravating products that I have ever repeatedly used. (If there was an alternative, I would switch.) I don't know why Foxboro / Invensys Process Systems / whatever waits so long for such incremental upgrades on this product. I think it's so they can charge for some marginal improvements, while major holes remain. Boy it felt good to vent. Regards, David --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Putting ECBs on/off line without using System Monitor
Does anyone know of a way to put ECBs on and off line without using the System Monitor? I would like to be able to do this from a program or script file but do not know of a way to do it. Regards, David Johnson --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW70 System Monitor Question
I have an AW70 that I do not have the necessary privileges to set the time, make configuration changes, etc. in the system monitor. The AW70 hosts a local system monitor and I would like to be able to add these privileges to it without having to re-make and re-install a commit disk. Does anyone know a what files need to be modified to solve this inconvenience? Thanks, David --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [Digest] Email from AW51B to MS Exchange
Chad, Make sure that SMPT is turned in MS Exchange. You can sometimes get more information by telneting into the Exchange Server. If port 25 doesn't work try port 110 that should be the POP3 port. here's a copy of my session AW51B1# telnet mailhost 25 Trying 192.168.1.1... Connected to BAMA_NT_SERVER2. Escape character is '^]'. 220 bama-nt-server2.192.168.1.1 ESMTP Server (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service 5.5.1960.3) ready quit 221 closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. AW51B1# So if you can telnet to port 25 (smtp) it might tell you something. Good Luck, David --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alex's colon and other disturbing things.
At 10/17/00 03:43 PM, Bo Stear wrote : Can anyone actually believe that Alex Johnson lost his COLON? I can believe it. I lost my ass once in a poker game. By the way, The Southeastern Users group meeting is Nov. 2nd and 3rd, a Thursday and Friday. It will be at the Embassy Suites in Greenville, SC. If you are interested in attending contact Denise Kendrick or Bill Whitfield. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 803 808-2508 phone 770 329-2687 cell 803 808-0228 fax Bill Whitfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] 864 879-5011 phone These are always good meetings, so make plans to attend. You do not have to be from the Southeast region to attend! Regards, David --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW51B, blinktask and 24 bit color
Hello all, I need to know if it is possible to get the blinktask to respond correctly to a SBus video card that supports 24 bit color. When the station boots, I get a blinktask warning and some highlighting doesn't work. I think it's possible to tell the workstation to use only 256 colors, but I don't know how. (Or why you would want to for that matter.) Regards, David --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AB KF2 at 19.2 Kbaud?
I have noticed that most of the Allen-Bradley KF2 modules I come across in the field are running at 9600 baud. I also know of some instances where a Foxboro Integrator 30 is communicating with AB KF2s at 19.2 Kbaud. Is there any reason not to run the baud rate at 19.2K? You sure get a lot more I/O throughput that way. Regards, David --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Event triggered data collection
Hello all, I was wondering if there is a good way to do event triggered data collection in the legacy (Informix) historian. Ideally I would like to place a value in the historian only when a counter increments. Is there a way to do this at the historian configuration level, or do I need to write some C code to take care of it? Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. Regards, David --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An interesting note on quality.
Here's a little something I found in the Invensys annual report that I thought might be of interest to those of you on the list. We are aggressively applying Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma quality improvement practices in manufacturing, project engineering, administration and the supply chain. During the year we cut the number of manufacturing plants by 22% and continued to shift production and engineering to lower cost countries: 20% of I/A Series(c) hardware is now produced in China. Bruce Henderson Invensys Intelligent Automation Division Chief Executive from the Invensys 2000 annual reportpage 29 I have a hard time reconciling sentence number one with sentences two and three in the above paragraph. Of course that could just mean SUN is manufacturing in China these days. :-o BTW if you want an Invensys annual report just go to the Invensys web site and e mail for one to be sent to you. It's more interesting reading than you might think. Regards, David --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some notes about the conference.
Hello all, For those of you attending the conference, here are a few items of note. I am speaking as a member of the steering committee here, so bear with me. First. There will be a welcome reception Sunday night at the Westin. This should provide everyone with an opportunity to do a little informal mixing and would be a good place to discuss problems and lobby for improvements you want to see made to the system. Plus a good turnout for the welcome reception would be appreciated by our Foxboro hosts. And it makes us look good too. Oh yeah, free drinks! Second. There is supposed to be, a white board, or paper wall, or something to that effect, to post messages on during the conference. If you want to get a group of people with similar ideas and issues together you can put a message up where everyone is SUPPOSED to check. Or you can decide to present a topic of your own choosing to see how it's received. Third. We have asked that some of the rooms at either the Hynes, or the Westin be made available for groups to meet after hours. That way you could get thirty plus people together for an ad hoc discussion. Fourth. Although the agenda is fairly crowded, do try to spend a little time after hours getting to know other users. The conference is shorter this year, so don't plan spending as many nights out on the town. The whole point is to come together and get to know each other better. Fifth. That's my fifth! Don't drink my bourbon! Sixth. The steering committee will be turning over a lot of people at the end of this year, and some new faces are needed. If you are interested in serving on the steering committee next year, try to let Edward Prejean (el presidente') know about your interest as early in the conference as possible. Hope to see you there. David --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Back on the Soap Box
To add to what Neil just said, what about having to EPROM the FBMs, do we have to have redundant I/O too? David --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Trouble with phasing blocks in an AB Integrator30
[Summary: I can't get an Integrator 30 to read from a PLC with Period 3, Phase 1. Tim Lowell suggested that I leave the COMPOUNDS PERIOD 1 PHASE 0 and then phase the ABSCAN and following blocks to reduce station loading. ] Tim, I did attempt to use a PERIOD 1 PHASE 0 on the compound, and then PERIOD 3 PHASE 1 on the ABSCAN and subsequent BLOCKS. The problem persisted until I phased them to PERIOD 3 PHASE 0. Any other ideas? Thanks, David --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[NOT] using in.routed with I/A [was Ethernet Networking Question]
Alex Johnson warns against starting in.routed which will forward packets between the two ethernet cards in the Solaris box. This has the effect of routing the secondary ethernet traffic onto the nodebus. I think you can see why that's a bad thing. That's why Foxboro comments the in.routed lines out of a normal Solaris boot sequence. However, if you use the -q (quiet) option when you start in.routed the routing tables are maintained for both ethernet cards, but no routing occurs between the cards. This is part of setting up a firewall in Solaris. I have successfully used this method for some time. I believe Foxboro's concern is the difference between in.routed and in.routed -q is quite extreme for one little argument. For safety's sake it is probably better to maintain the routing tables by hand. Discretion being the better part of valor and all that. I would recommend anyone interested in learning more about this check out http://docs.sun.com and see what they have to say about setting up your TCP/IP network. The Solaris 2.6 System Administrator Collection Vol 1 does a much better job of explaining the options available to you than the man pages that get included with the systems. Regards, David Johnson Premier System Integrators (256) 355-1732 --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks to all for the Modbus info.
I will attempt to summarize the responses I got about communications with a PC using the Modbus Integrator and send it to Duc to put on the web page. Thanks to all who replied. David --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe foxboro in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
