Get Directory

Associated with: IEC 60870-5 Outstations

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Use the Get Directory pick action to obtain a list of binary files on an IEC 60870-5 outstation. This is useful when you need to ascertain the locations and names of files on an outstation—for instance, before uploading files from, or downloading files to that outstation.

Select the Get Directory pick action to display the Get Directory window. The window has these fields:

• Destination File—Use to specify the name and location of the file to which Geo SCADA Expert is to write the directory information.

  The file has to reside in the folder (or a subfolder within the folder) that is defined using the Server Configuration Tool (see Define the File Transfer Parameters).

  Use the Destination File field to specify the relative path and filename of the file at the above location.

   

  The folder from which files on the current main server are downloaded to, and uploaded from, IEC 60870-5 outstations is set to:

  C:\ProgramData\Schneider Electric\ClearSCADA\Database\IEC60870

  To write directory information to:

  C:\ProgramData\Schneider Electric\ClearSCADA\Database\IEC60870\My Folder\IOA3DirectoryList.txt

  You set the Source Filename to:

  My Folder\IOA3DirectoryList.txt

• Source IOA—Specify the Information Object Address for which Geo SCADA Expert is to obtain a directory listing. The valid address range varies, depending on the IOA size supported by the outstation.

  An outstation that communicates using the IEC 60870-5-104 protocol has an Information Object Address size of 3 octets.

  With an outstation that communicates using the IEC 60870-5-101 protocol, the size ranges between 1 and 3 octets (see Specify the IEC 60870-5-101 Parameters).