Kevin, You can add FBMs online using ICC. Just create the ECB block in the ECB compound for the CP where this FBM will be served. If you are not sure how to fill the parameters, just take a look of another existing FBM. Alfredo Matus [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Fitzgerrell) wrote: > > Dear Peng, > It is hard to believe you would have been sold a system with no display > managers... Is this system currently controlling a process or are you > setting up a new process or plant? Is this new hardware and software, or > is this a previously installed system being recycled? > > Did you mean there were no display managers other than the one(s) set up > for the operator console? If so, an easy way to verify what DMs you have > set up is to click the SYS button on the upper left of the display on the > AW to pull down the menu, and then click on DM_Usage. That will give you a > list of the display managers set up on the AW and where (or if) they are > being used. If you have some listed with nothing under "ACTIVE SCREEN" > then those can be used for anything. Then do the same on the WP side. A > typical installation with an AW51B and a WP51B might have 4 heads > (displays), two for each of AW and WP. Typically that system might have > 6-9 display managers licenced, one or more for each head and enough extra > to do engineering work without tying up the operators console. We have 5 > display managers on our AW and 4 on our WP. We don't have a separate > license disk for these that I'm aware of, although that may be how they > were installed initially. > > Adding FBMs should be unrelated to display manager licenses. Adding an FBM > is done in system configuration. On 4.1 this could be done on the system > from the Config menu. On 4.3 this is done offline by running the System > definition CD on a Windows system (my documentation says Win 95 or NT, but > I think I was told NT only) to build a commit disk. > > I'm going to post this thread back to the Foxboro list in case I've made a > mistake here. System configuration is not something I do often. > > Kevin FitzGerrell > Fairbanks Gold Mining, Inc. > > > -------------original manager----------------- > Subject: Re: adding remote display managers > Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 21:42:53 +0800 > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Kevin Fitzgerrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Dear Kevin: > > I don't think we have any licenced display managers in my system. I think > they did not give us the license disk for our system. I can not even add a > new FBM in the system. I wonder if I have the only choice to purchase the > license from Foxboro or else? > > Thanks > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
