Installation of Prerequisites

Geo SCADA Expert requires certain other software components to be in place before it can be installed successfully.

If your computer has the prerequisite software installed, the Geo SCADA Expert installer will display the Welcome ‘page’ of the Geo SCADA Expert Installation Wizard (see Welcome to the Schneider Electric Geo SCADA Expert Setup Wizard).

If the prerequisite software is missing from your computer, the Geo SCADA Expert installer will attempt to install it from the DVD. A Setup dialog box provides details about the components that need to be installed (some of which are optional).

If your system does not use Schneider Electric PLCs, you can choose to proceed with the installation without installing OPC Server.

1. Use the check boxes to choose which of the optional components you want to install (in addition to the required components that will be installed).

   The SAP Crystal Reports runtime components are NOT installed by default. If you intend to install them you must purchase a Crystal Reports runtime license for each server on which these components are to be operational (clients do not need a license to use the runtime components). For servers on which the runtime components are operational, the Crystal Reports runtime license is included with the Geo SCADA Expert Crystal Reports driver license. Please contact your Schneider sales representative for more information.

   If you intend using Crystal Reports on your system, you also need to install the Crystal Reports prerequisites and driver on any Permanent Standby servers, in order for the Geo SCADA Expert database to synchronize. However, as the Permanent Standby Geo SCADA Expert servers do not require the Crystal Reports driver to be operational, they do not require a Crystal Reports runtime license. (On the Modules tab on the Server Status Tool of such servers, the Crystal Reports driver will show a red 'No License' state due to the lack of runtime license. This is expected on Permanent Standby servers. On all other servers on systems that use Crystal Reports, the Crystal Reports driver and runtime components must be licensed.)

   Geo SCADA Expert can only install OPC Factory Server on a computer that does not have any version of OPC Factory Server currently installed. If you need to install Geo SCADA Expert on a computer that does have a version of OPC Factory Server installed, you will need to uninstall OPC Factory Server (using Windows) and then run the Geo SCADA Expert installer again. If your system does not use Schneider Electric PLCs, you can choose to not install OPC Factory Server at all.

   If you are installing the prerequisites on an operating system other than Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 Release 2, please exclude the OPC Factory Server as it may cause an installer error. OPC Factory Server is not currently compatible with the other operating systems that are supported by Geo SCADA Expert.

2. Select the OK button to proceed.
   The prerequisite components are verified and installed. If a reboot is required for the installation process to complete, a dialog box is displayed. Select Yes to allow the reboot to take place.
3. Following the reboot, Windows may ask if you want to allow Geo SCADA Expert Setup to make changes to your computer. Select Yes.
4. If a Setup dialog box is displayed, select the OK button to install any remaining prerequisite components.

Windows may ask you if you want to allow Geo SCADA Expert Service Manager to make changes to your computer. Select Yes to allow the installation process to continue.

When the prerequisites have been installed, the Geo SCADA Expert Installation wizard runs (see Welcome to the Schneider Electric Geo SCADA Expert Setup Wizard).