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Created Date: May 23,2008
Created By: Joe Avendano
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I currently have a monitoring program created with VB and I have the dsdata server software on my local hard disk. I have several DL_06s that I read downtime from. This was easily done with linktopic in VB looking at dsdata on my PC(Link Topic http://forum1.automationdirect.com/board/biggrin.gif SDATA|DOWNTIME). However we would like to be able to install this VB program on any PC on our network. This means that I will uninstall the dsdata server software from my pc and install it on the network server. I will also have to make the changes in my VB program to now look to the server that will be running the dsdata software. I don't know how to do this. Can someone please help? Thanks
Created Date: May 23,2008
Created by: rlp122
It isn't likely to work. DSData isn't supported for any server OS.
Created Date: May 23,2008
Created by: Joe Avendano
Is there any other way, Beside having to buy a dsdata license for every PC?
Created Date: May 23,2008
Created by: MacS
You could use an ActiveX control in your VB program for the PLC communications.
If you do a Google search for "Automationdirect ActiveX " you will see several options.
Created Date: May 23,2008
Created by: sii
AD tech support told me DS 5.2 would not run on a network server also. I have thus far encountered no problems after running on the server for several months.
Created Date: May 23,2008
Created by: Bob S BN
I'm not sure what data you 're collecting or the need for the VB program to collect it, but we a couple press lines with downtime data being collected to a couple 250 plcs. PLC writes to network(WX) every minute with the data.
Also on the network we have Dataworx (available from AD) running on a pc. This program grabs the data and stores it in csv. format.
We then use access to take that data and populate reports.
Might be worth a look, Bob
Created Date: May 23,2008
Created by: a agnone
Yes Bob the DataWorx works nicely. It will also allow what shift to collect the data. I got the lastest version. Easy to use and like you, we use excel to open the csv file. We bought the 3 plc version.
Created Date: May 23,2008
Created by: sii
Does anyone out there use Dataworx Professional? I just ordered a copy from Bizware to run our Sequel database server and wondered if anyone had any experiences to share. I have used the standard version on a PC for a couple of years but the IT department wants it to run in the server.
Created Date: May 29,2008
Created by: a agnone
Yes I have the professional version. I like the ability to set choose shift the data is collected. What I do not like is it will only run on a Windows based server. Ours are Linux, so I have to run it on a windows computer or IT has a windows based servo just for programs like this. The problem is if the servo goes down IT is not going to replace it.
Created Date: May 23,2008
Created by: Joe Avendano
I currently have a monitoring program created with VB and I have the dsdata server software on my local hard disk. I have several DL_06s that I read downtime from. This was easily done with linktopic in VB looking at dsdata on my PC(Link Topic http://forum1.automationdirect.com/board/biggrin.gif SDATA|DOWNTIME). However we would like to be able to install this VB program on any PC on our network. This means that I will uninstall the dsdata server software from my pc and install it on the network server. I will also have to make the changes in my VB program to now look to the server that will be running the dsdata software. I don't know how to do this. Can someone please help?
Thanks