4 Using Additional Functions - Special Features to Note
4Using Additional Functions - Special Features to Note
4.1Checking the Configuration and Diagnostics
The “Configuration Console” tool is a central tool for access to the components and data of the PC station during the following tasks:
SCommissioning and operation
SEditing the configuration
SDiagnostics
For more detailed information on the available functions, refer to the description in Chapter 16 “Tools”.
4.2Testing with the OPC Scout
If you use the OPC interface; in other words, you have used the OPC Server in the project engineering configuration, you can check the functionality of your communications system as the last step. With the OPC Scout, you have access to all process variables accessible with the configured protocols and connections via the OPC Server.
Using the OPC Scout, you can monitor the values of process variables, read values explicitly, and write values. The OPC Scout displays the name space of the variables consisting of configured communications connections and symbolic names.
For more detailed information on the available functions, refer to the description in Chapter 16 “Tools”.
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