Your ClearSCADA system can connect to, and interact with, a wide variety of outstations, PLCs, controllers and similar devices. These devices contain 'live' data that is reported to, or retrieved by ClearSCADA and stored in corresponding items in the database. Similarly, ClearSCADA can send controls to the device.
You are now going to configure ClearSCADA to communicate with a hardware device—a SCADAPack Modbus controller that has:
- Its serial port set to Modbus address 1
- Telepace firmware loaded
- Been connected to a plant simulation equipment
- A standard Register Assignment
- Been connected to a COM port on your PC.
While we recommend that you use a SCADAPack Modbus controller (available from your ClearSCADA agent), you can complete this section without any hardware. However, if you don’t have a SCADAPack Modbus controller, you won’t have live I/O to work with, so to achieve different values and states, you will need to perform Hand Controls on your points.
You need to have the Advanced Modbus driver installed on your system (see Installing ClearCADA).
As you set up your first 'live' configuration, you will learn how to configure the main elements required to operate your system. For more information, see the topics that are listed in the gray footer section at the bottom of this topic. Select the relevant entry to display the topic that you require.
At the end of this section, you can see how much you have learned by accepting our challenge to Test Your Knowledge on 'Live' Configuration.