Geo SCADA Expert Installation Guide - Virtual ViewX Server Prerequisite Components (Installing the Virtual ViewX Server)

Virtual ViewX Server Prerequisite Components

Virtual ViewX is supported by Geo SCADA Expert 2019 onwards. We strongly recommend that you install the Virtual ViewX server on a different machine to the Geo SCADA Expert server. This is to avoid potential performance issues due to the number of resources that each application uses.

If you do install Geo SCADA Expert and Virtual ViewX on the same machine, both applications must have the same version and build number. This is because the applications share some resources.

The Virtual ViewX server is designed to run on a computer that has certain other components installed. The components comprise a combination of the following:

Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 x86
Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015-2022 x86
.NET 4.8 Full Runtime
SAP Crystal Reports runtime engine for .NET Framework (32-bit)
Sentinel System Driver Installer 7.6.0
EcoStruxure Geo SCADA Virtual ViewX Manager.

WARNING

DO NOT UNINSTALL PREREQUISITE COMPONENTS

Uninstalling the prerequisite components may result in the Virtual ViewX server being unable to provide access to certain features, or being unable to run. It could also affect system security. For these reasons, do not uninstall the prerequisite components.

Failure to follow these instructions can result in death, serious injury, or equipment damage.

When you install Virtual ViewX, the components that are essential for Virtual ViewX to run on your operating system are installed automatically. A prompt is displayed for non-essential components, allowing you to choose the components that are relevant to your system.

We suggest that you only choose to install components that you need for your system.

Installing components that are not needed on your system uses up disk space unnecessarily.

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.

Geo SCADA Expert servers require the 64-bit version of the SAP Crystal Reports Runtime Engine to be selected. Geo SCADA Expert ViewX clients and Virtual ViewX servers require the 32-bit version of the SAP Crystal Reports Runtime Engine to be selected. Please select both if you are to run Server and Clients on the same computer. As the runtime components are prerequisites, you have to select them before you continue further with the Geo SCADA Expert installation (this is handled automatically in the Virtual ViewX installer). For more information about the installation order, see the Installation section of the Geo SCADA Expert Guide to the Crystal Reports Driver.

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.)

Further Information

Prerequisites for machines on which Geo SCADA Expert is installed: see Geo SCADA Expert Prerequisite Components.