This driver is a simple driver. It provides additional functionality to enable Geo SCADA Expert to interface with specific supported devices using a particular protocol. To interact successfully with such devices, you need to:
- Install and run the driver
- Ensure that the driver is licensed
- Configure the required database items and settings on the driver
- Ensure that the database items (and any database items on which they depend) have valid, saved, configuration and are 'In Service'.
Intended Audience
This guide is designed for use by engineers who are responsible for configuring EcoStruxure Web Services-specific items and features. It can also be used by system administrators when investigating any unexpected behavior relating to the Simple EcoStruxure Web Services Client Driver.
Document Scope
This guide explains how to configure EcoStruxure Web Services specific features and items in the Geo SCADA Expert database. It also explains driver-specific aspects of the driver that may be of interest to system administrators and engineers when investigating unexpected system behavior (relating to the Simple EcoStruxure Web Services Client Driver).
For more information, see EcoStruxure Web Services Specific Status Display Attributes and EcoStruxure Web Services Specific Driver Log File Options.
Prerequisite Reading
This guide contains technical information that is intended for users that are sufficiently familiar with Geo SCADA Expert configuration and operation. Before reading this driver guide, ensure that you are familiar with:
- Geo SCADA Expert configuration practices, procedures, and the configuration of properties that are common to many database items. For more information, see the Geo SCADA Expert Guide to Core Configuration, and the Geo SCADA Expert Guide to Core Point Configuration.
- Driver structure, components, and configuration properties, pick actions, and status attributes that are common to many drivers. For more information, see the Geo SCADA Expert Guide to Drivers.
- Simple driver composition, configuration order, and configuration properties and logging options that are common to many simple drivers. For more information, see the Geo SCADA Expert Guide to Simple Drivers.
EcoStruxure Web Services (EWS) is a Schneider-defined standard that allows interoperability between Schneider products and devices. Geo SCADA Expert uses this standard to allow transfer of data between the Geo SCADA Expert server and other Schneider applications.
Using the EWS protocol, you can use Geo SCADA Expert’s Simple EcoStruxure Web Services Client Driver to read and/or write to data on EWS servers, including:
- Geo SCADA Expert servers
- Other Schneider Electric servers.
The driver enables Geo SCADA Expert to communicate with servers that comply with EcoStruxure Web Services version 1.1 The driver takes into account any security settings, designed to limit access to configuration properties on many EWS servers.
For information about how to configure EWS specific features and items within the Geo SCADA Expert database,(see Configuring EcoStruxure Web Services Devices in Geo SCADA Expert).
The EcoStruxure Web Services (EWS) Client Driver was previously named the SECWS Client Driver. Any dated references to SECWS or CWS, should be understood as 'EWS'.
NOTE: There are no driver-specific pick actions for database items on this particular driver. However, users with the required privileges can add custom pick actions to a database item by using the User Methods tab on the relevant configuration Form (see Using the User Methods Tab to Define Custom Actions in the Geo SCADA Expert Guide to Core Configuration). See a system administrator for the documentation associated with such custom actions (also known as ‘methods’).
See a system administrator for the documentation associated with such custom actions (also known as ‘methods’).