TOP Server Release Notes (5.11.262.0) May 3, 2013

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TOP Server Release Notes (5.11.262.0) May 3, 2013
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TOP Server Release Notes (5.11.262.0) May 3, 2013
Drivers
All Drivers
Fixed an issue that prevented Ethernet Encapsulation from binding to a network adapter. Note: This issue affects the following drivers:
ABB Totalflow
Allen-Bradley Bulletin 900
Allen-Bradley DF1
Analog Devices
Aromat Serial
AutomationDirect DirectNet
AutomationDirect K Sequence
Contrex Serial
Contrex M-Series
Cutler-Hammer D50/300
Cutler-Hammer ELC Serial
Enron Modbus
Fuji Flex
GE CCM
Honeywell UDC Serial
IA Super SEL Idec Serial
Lufkin Modbus Serial
Micro DCI
Mitsubishi FX
Mitsubishi FX Net
Mitsubishi Serial
Modbus ASCII Serial
Modbus RTU Serial
Omni Flow Computer
Omron FIN Serial
Omron Host Link
Omron Process Suite
Omron Toolbus
Partlow
ASCII
Philips P8/PC20
Siemens S5 (3964R)
Siemens S5 (AS511)
Siemens S7 MPI
Siemens S7-200
Simatic/TI 505 Serial
Thermo Westronics Serial
TIWAY Host Adapter
Toshiba Serial
Toyopuc PC2 Serial
U-CON (User-Configurable)
Weatherford 8500 Serial
Yaskawa MP Series Serial
Yokogawa Controller
Yokogawa Darwin Serial
Yokogawa HR2400
Yokogawa YS100 Serial
Fixed an issue where Ethernet Encapsulation failed to load the Network Adapter that was selected in TOP Server 5.9 or older. The Network Adapter setting would revert to Default. Note: This issue affects the following drivers:
ABB Totalflow
Allen-Bradley Bulletin 900
Allen-Bradley DF1
Analog Devices
Aromat Serial
AutomationDirect DirectNet
AutomationDirect K Sequence
Contrex Serial
Contrex M-Series
Cutler-Hammer D50/300
Cutler-Hammer ELC Serial
Enron Modbus
Fuji Flex
GE CCM
Honeywell UDC Serial
IA Super SEL
Idec Serial
Lufkin Modbus Serial
Mettler Toledo Serial
Micro DCI
Mitsubishi FX
Mitsubishi FX Net
Mitsubishi Serial
Modbus ASCII Serial
Modbus Slave RTU Serial
Modbus RTU Serial
Omni Flow Computer
Omron FIN Serial
Omron Host Link
Omron Process Suite
Omron Toolbus
Partlow ASCII
Philips P8/PC20
Siemens S5 (3964R)
Siemens S5 (AS511)
Siemens S7 MPI
Siemens S7-200
Simatic/TI 505 Serial
Thermo Westronics Serial
TIWAY Host Adapter
Toshiba Serial
Toyopuc PC2 Serial
U-CON (User-Configurable)
Weatherford 8500 Serial
Yaskawa MP Series Serial
Yokogawa Controller
Yokogawa Darwin Serial
Yokogawa HR2400
Yokogawa YS100 Serial
Prevented a server crash from occurring when processing incoming data using Unsolicited Ethernet Encapsulation. This issue only affects the following driver:
Metter Toledo Serial
Modbus Slave RTU Serial
U-CON (User-Configurable).
Fixed an issue where Unsolicited Ethernet Encapsulation loaded the host port instead of the source port. TOP Server 5.9 or older projects would break if the Port was not set to the default value (2101). This issue only affects the following driver:
Metter Toledo Serial
Modbus Slave RTU Serial
U-CON (User-Configurable).
Allen-Bradley ControlLogix Ethernet
Fixed an issue where synchronization failed on controllers with Firmware revision 15 or older that contained CAM_PROFILE Tags. This caused the driver to revert to and stay in Symbolic Mode.
TOP Server Release Notes (5.11.250.0) Mar 5, 2013
Server Runtime
Reduced unnecessary memory consumption by waiting to load Internal Tags on demand instead of loading them all at once on startup. The on-demand portion is prompted when clients connect to the server and request items. For certain applications, this update could yield a 50% reduction in memory use by the Runtime.
Updated the Runtime to require that the Windows TAPI service is a dependency when the Runtime is installed as a service. This resolved an issue where the Runtime could fail to load after PC reboot if the server project contained serial drivers. The issue was initially identified by internal testing, and was found on Windows 7 operating systems and above.
Server Configuration
Resolved an issue where pressing the Tab key when the focus was on the Channel/Device pane (and no channels were defined) caused the Configuration to crash.
Corrected a failure to show _Statistics at the channel and device level when working in the Alias Name and Tag Browser dialogs.
Server Installation
Added the IEC 61850 MMS Client Driver to the Communication Drivers feature tree. This driver will also be pre-selected for users that choose the Power Distribution Suite earlier in the install.
Added the OPC XML-DA Client driver to the OPC Connectivity Suite within the Communication Drivers feature tree. The OPC XML-DA Client driver can be installed and activated for unlimited use with an existing OPC Connectivity Suite (OPC DA and OPC UA Client Drivers) license. Contact support a re-registration request. Then simply re-process the existing activation ID through the license utility and online registration center.
Added the EFM Simulator Driver as a feature selection of the EFM Exporter Plug-In. The EFM Simulator is a free component for EFM Exporter users, and does not require a license.
Added the EFM Suite to the list of selections in the Vertical Suite Selection page of the install.
Removed the VS2005 Runtime redistributable from the install’s payload because it is no longer being used.
Updated the Custom Interface Driver (CID) example by removing unnecessary characters from Strings and String Arrays.
License Utility
Resolved an issue where the License Utility could stop running when launched on certain PCs. The issue was reported by a customer using a 64 bit Windows 2008 PC with a language selection of Korean. It was caused by an invalid method used (by the utility) to de-allocate String memory.
Improved support for RAID hard drives, virtual environments and Operating System configurations.
Native Client Interfaces
OPC UA Server Interface
Fixed an issue where the UA service “FindServers” returned an incorrect endpoint when multiple endpoints were configured. The service also now correctly handles URLs with mixed case, URLs that exclude the domain postfix, and “localhost” URLs.
Resolved an issue where the Server interface allowed remote connection to Local Endpoint when remote endpoints were disabled.
Plug-Ins
Advanced Tags Plug-In
Resolved an issue with the Add Tag dialog, wherein selecting a system keyboard shortcut (such as Alt+F4) could cause the Configuration to stop running.
Alarms & Events (AE) Plug-In
Resolved an issue with the Add Area dialog, wherein selecting a system keyboard shortcut (such as Alt+F4) could cause the Configuration to stop running.
DataLogger Plug-In
Resolved a minor issue wherein the UI portion of the Server Item List from the Data Map tab did not immediately display items following an Import from CSV.
Electronic Flow Measurement (EFM) Plug-In
Enhanced the EFM Exporter to support the following new System Tags for use in SCADA client applications:
_Enable - This enables or disables a Poll Group, Meter, or Exporter.
_ErrorOnLastPoll - This is True if there was an error on the last poll; otherwise, it is False.
_LastPollEnd - The date and time (in UTC) that the last poll completed.
_LastPollStart - The date and time (in UTC) that the last poll started.
_NextPollStart - The date and time (in UTC) of the next scheduled poll.
_Polling - This is True if the Poll Group is currently being polled; otherwise, it is False.
Note: The _Enable System Tag was added at the Poll Group, Meter, and Exporter levels, whereas the remaining tags were only added at the Poll Group level.
Altered the default path for the Flow-Cal, PGAS, and CSV exporters to make them more user-friendly. The new path is as follows:
\EFM\|PollGroupName|\|ExporterName|\|RecordYear|\|RecordMonth|\
Added vertical scroll bars to the Export File edit boxes for all exporters.
Added Windows registry persistence to the Flow-Cal Exporter for the Export File Path and Name properties. This behavior is consistent with the CSV and PGAS exporters.
Reduced memory use when dealing with large .CFX files.
Fixed an issue wherein all records of the current export file contained the current device timestamp when the data included from the previous record should retain the previous timestamp.
Made temporary meter data files persist through power loss. As a result, if the configuration is changed before a result file has been consumed its corresponding temporary file will not be deleted. A new Event Log message “Failed to remove temporary meter data file” containing the reason, “Configuration change” will inform users when this happens.
Media Level Redundancy Plug-In
Resolved an issue with the Device Browser dialog, wherein selecting a system keyboard shortcut (such as Alt+F4) could cause the Configuration to stop running.
Drivers
All Drivers
Updated several drivers to disable the ability to show the Diagnostics Window when the driver does not support device-level communication diagnostics. The following drivers do not support communication diagnostics at the device level:
Allen-Bradley Unsolicited Ethernet
Advanced Simulator
Dataforth IsoLynx
DDE Client
DNP Master Serial and DNP Master Ethernet
GE Ethernet Global Data, GE Focas1 Ethernet, and GE Focas1 HSSB
InTouch Client
Memory Based
Mettler Toledo Serial
Modbus Unsolicited Serial
ODBC Client
OPC DA Client and OPC UA Client
Simulator
Siemens TCP/IP Unsolicited Ethernet
Telemecanique Uni-Telway Slave
ABB Totalflow Serial
Improved the driver’s EFM data collection performance and efficiency when intermittent communication errors occur with the connection to the EFM data source. The optimizations are automatically handled in the driver: no project configuration changes were required in the driver UI.
Added DB1 as a supported Protocol Version in order to support G1 and early G2 Totalflow FCUs. Because the default setting for the driver is DB2, users must edit the Totalflow Settings to select DB1 for applicable devices in the server project.
Fixed an issue where the Characteristic tags’ Access Type was set to Read/Write, when it should have been Read Only.
Allen-Bradley ControlLogix Ethernet
Added device-level error messages for Identity request failures.
Added project change detection support for online and offline project edits. The device setting "Synchronize with Controller after" is available in the Logix Options property page.
Following a project download or edit is a period in which Logical Reads/Writes will resort to Symbolic Mode, after which the driver will synchronize with the controller so that Logical Reads/Writes can resume. To improve recovery time, this time period has been lowered from 60 seconds to 30 seconds.
In the event of an "Invalid or corrupt project" error during synchronization, we now wait 30 seconds until retrying. Before, we retried immediately (which caused unnecessary upload attempts and Event Log errors).
Added support for failing a synchronization in progress as soon as a project download is detected. Synchronization will be retried after 30 seconds.
Fixed an issue that was causing an unnecessary Event Log message to be posted when a project change occurred during a CIP reconnect (Idle Watchdog expires).
Improved the logic that determines how many reads or writes can fit in a single packet, which yields a slight increase in performance.
Corrected the message size estimation for Symbol Instance reads in array element blocks whose starting offset exceeded 255 (likely), thus making it possible to underestimate and overflow a request packet. The message size estimation and generation for Symbol Instance writes was also incorrect for paths exceeding 255 in size (unlikely).
Update for Logix FRN V21. Updated Pre-defined Data Types for offline automatic tag generation per Logix FRN V21:
Added the new pre-defined types “DATALOG_INSTRUCTION” and “HMIBC”.
Added several new members to “ALARM_ANALOG,” “ALARM_DIGITAL,” and “AXIS_CIP_DRIVE” as per V21 changes.
Allen-Bradley ControlLogix Unsolicited Ethernet
Added support for Strings of INT and DINT arrays.
DNP Master Ethernet
Fixed an issue where the server could become unresponsive during automatic tag generation. This problem was introduced in the 5.10 release.
Fixed an issue where the driver failed to report an Event Log error message if the socket bind failed. This message failure occurred for bind failures where UDP was the selected protocol and the optional source port was set to a non-zero value.
Added an error message that will be posted when a tag fails due to the DNP flags containing an exception condition. The error message will list the actual DNP flags byte in hexadecimal format, as well as a comma delimited String listing the exceptions. For example, “Unable to read tag '1.0.0.Explicit' on device 'Channel1.Device1'. Device indicates one or more exception conditions (DNP flags byte='0x28' - 'Offline, Remote Force, Chatter Filter')”.
Fixed an issue where on-the-fly changes to channel properties that affect the socket did not consistently force a socket reconnect.
Fixed an issue where no “Device Not Responding” message was logged and tags did not show Bad quality when the keep-alive request timed out and the project was not configured with event or integrity polling or explicit read tags.
Fixed an issue where tag quality was not updated after disabling the Enable Data Collection property.
DNP Master Serial
Fixed an issue where the server could become unresponsive during automatic tag generation. This problem was introduced in the 5.10 release.
Fixed an issue where the driver failed to report an Event Log error message if the socket bind failed. This message failure occurred for bind failures where the driver was using a Connection Type of Ethernet Encapsulation and UDP was the selected protocol.
Added an error message to be posted when a tag fails due to the DNP flags containing an exception condition. The error message will list the actual DNP flags byte in hexadecimal format, as well as a comma delimited string listing the exceptions. For example, “Unable to read tag '1.0.0.Explicit' on device 'Channel1.Device1'. Device indicates one or more exception conditions (DNP flags byte='0x28' - 'Offline, Remote Force, Chatter Filter')”.
Fixed an issue where tag quality was not updated after disabling the Enable Data Collection property.
Electronic Flow Measurement (EFM) Simulator
Initial release of new EFM Simulation Driver to be included with the EFM Exporter Plug-In. This driver gives users an easy way to evaluate or demonstrate the EFM Exporter when they do not have connection access to a physical EFM device. The driver exists as a sub-feature of the EFM Exporter and must be selected for installation.
Enron Modbus Serial
Improved the driver’s EFM data collection performance and efficiency when intermittent communication errors occur with the connection to the EFM data source. The optimizations are automatically handled in the driver: no project configuration changes were required in the driver UI.
Enhanced the driver to support Configurable Addressing. This provides users the flexibility to configure address ranges as needed to work with devices that do not use standard Enron address extensions.
Added the option to automatically generate tags from the EFM Configuration Mapping.
Added the EFM Mapping Device Property page to the Enron Modbus New Device wizard. The Import and Export functions are not available in the New Device wizard.
Enabled the EFM mapping controls on the EFM Meters New Device wizard property page.
Made the "Meter Name" element required in the XML project schema.
Made the minimum and maximum number of meters twelve in the XML project schema.
Fisher ROC Serial
Improved the driver’s EFM data collection performance and efficiency when intermittent communication errors occur with the connection to the EFM data source. The optimizations are automatically handled in the driver: no project configuration changes were required in the driver UI.
Fixed an issue where the driver could incorrectly interpret the meter type returned by the device, potentially leading to missing EFM attribute data in the final EFM export.
Fisher ROC Plus Serial
Improved the driver’s EFM data collection performance and efficiency when intermittent communication errors occur with the connection to the EFM data source. The optimizations are automatically handled in the driver: no project configuration changes were required in the driver UI.
GE Ethernet (SRTP)
Enhanced the driver to support the reading of multiple blocks within a single read packet, which dramatically improves the driver’s read performance in large projects. Changed the default value of the Maximum Bytes Per Request device property from 256 to 2048.
Enhanced the driver to support bit-level access within Symbolic addresses in the PACSystems model. This change affects the following data types: BYTE, INT, UINT, WORD, DINT, DWORD, and array elements of those data types (in both discrete and non-discrete memory).
Added new error messages for invalid bit index and invalid data type for bit access.
IEC 61850 MMS Client
Initial release of the new driver for applications in Power Distribution (substations). This Ethernet driver connects to servers that support the Manufacturing Message Specification of IEC 61850.
Key features that are supported:
Automatic Tag Generation from device or SCL file
Data Polling
Unsolicited data via Report Control Blocks (RCBs)
Custom Report Buffering/Playback
Control Model write support.
Lufkin Modbus Serial
Fixed a minor issue where the channel-level Statistics Tag “_MsgResent” value was erroneously incremented instead of the “_MsgSent” count in certain situations for read attempts following a read failure. This situation could cause the “_PercentReturn” value to be greater than 100% but did not affect the value of “_PercentValid”.
Omni Flow Computer Serial
Improved the driver’s EFM data collection performance and efficiency when intermittent communication errors occur with the connection to the EFM data source. The optimizations are automatically handled in the driver: no project configuration changes were required in the driver UI.
Fixed a device password login problem that caused the driver to stop polling for data until the server runtime was restarted. The error was triggered when Ethernet Encapsulation devices returned ‘Exception Code 5’ as a result of a login attempt with an incorrect password.
OPC DA Client
Resolved an issue where the driver would invalidate tags if the remote server did not provide a supported data type when the item was added to the server. The driver will now wait for the first update before invalidating unsupported data types.
OPC XML-DA Client
Initial release of the new driver used to connect to Third-Party OPC XML-DA Servers (such as connectivity to Siemens Simotion systems and other equipment with embedded XML-DA Servers)
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