Power-Up Of The Simotion P Kernel; Data Storage Concept; Data Storage Concept Overview - Siemens SIMOTION P320-4 E Commissioning And Hardware Installation Manual

9.7

Power-up of the SIMOTION P Kernel

The SIMOTION P kernel is started by default when Windows is booting up. It is thus available
after each start-up of the SIMOTION P320-4. The startup process is triggered by an installed
service, the SIMOTION P Startup Service. This service ensures that the SIMOTION P Kernel
starts automatically during the Windows startup.
SIMOTION P320-4 is started with the project last saved from RAM to ROM and starts running
immediately if the operating mode was set to RUN when the system was switched off.
If you want to explicitly end the SIMOTION P320-4 without ending Windows, use the application
SIMOTION P State.
To do this, you must be logged on with administrator privileges. Only the administrator can
see the button for the Terminate SIMOTION P function.
After an explicit ending of the SIMOTION P Kernel via the application SIMOTION P State, the
SIMOTION P Kernel can be restarted via this application (Start SIMOTION P button). A restart
of Windows also leads to a restart of the SIMOTION P kernel.
You can find more detailed information about SIMOTION P State in the section Application
SIMOTION P State (Page 65).
9.8

Data storage concept

9.8.1

Data storage concept overview

Overview
The backup possibilities described in the following section can be used to backup and restore
the complete SIMOTION P320-4 installation with the current configuration and customization.
The SIMOTION version on the target device does not need to match the version of the device
on which the backup was created.
Under certain preconditions, e.g. identical hardware for storage medium image, series
commissioning can also be carried out using these backup and restoration mechanisms.
Storage medium image
With a storage medium image, the entire storage medium can be backed up and restored.
This allows series commissioning to be performed (requirement: identical hardware!).
A storage medium image must be created both for the internal storage medium (Drive C) and
for the external CFast card (Drive D). When creating the image with the SIMATIC IPC Image
Creator, an image can be created jointly for one internal and one external storage medium.
When loading an image, be aware that the images for the internal and external storage media
must be loaded separately and that the wizard must therefore be run twice. It is not possible
to load the image onto both drives in a single process.
The restore DVD contains a storage medium image of the plant with which the delivery state
of the SIMOTION P320-4 can be restored.
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