Using Additional Functions - Special Features To Note; Checking The Configuration And Diagnostics; Testing With The Opc Scout - Siemens SIMATIC NET Manual

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4 Using Additional Functions - Special
Features to Note
4.1

Checking the Configuration and Diagnostics

The "Configuration Console" tool is a central tool for access to the components and
data of the PC station during the following tasks:
S Commissioning and operation
S Editing the configuration
S Diagnostics
For more detailed information on the available functions, refer to the description in
Chapter 16 "Tools".
4.2

Testing with the OPC Scout

If you use the OPC interface; in other words, you have used the OPC Server in the
project engineering configuration, you can check the functionality of your
communications system as the last step. With the OPC Scout, you have access to
all process variables accessible with the configured protocols and connections via
the OPC Server.
Using the OPC Scout, you can monitor the values of process variables, read
values explicitly, and write values. The OPC Scout displays the name space of the
variables consisting of configured communications connections and symbolic
names.
For more detailed information on the available functions, refer to the description in
Chapter 16 "Tools".
Commissioning PC Stations - Manual and Quick Start
Release 5/2005
C79000-G8976-C156-07

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