Back in 2003 I heard Emerson was going to run some sort of utility on my client's site as part of the foundation support.
Is this utility available to non-Emerson personnel?
I'm interested in one of the features I heard it would perform - providing a listing of all peer-to-peer references.
We have a client who wants to quantify how many control loops in an existing plant are split between two DeltaV controllers.
I'm aware this information can be obtained from user defined exports and data mining, I just hoped it could be obtained easier than that, so we could run it at several locations.
Any knowledge would be appreciated - CHris
In reply to Aaron Crews:
I wonder if the Controller Redundancy Analyser Program might not provide the information needed. This utility was provided on DeltaV media and used to verify how the peer to peer configurations were done in order to identify expressions and other references that crossed controller boundaries. I believe this ran against the FHX export file.
There is an "unsupported" utility on DeltaV systems called the ROCDiagnosticsExplorer. This utility allows you to view the active connections between nodes, and will list the modules and their parameters. You would need to only look at connections between controllers. It is unsupported in that it is not intended for the end user and is not somthing you can call the GSC about. But it installs on every DeltaV workstation and can be launched from the Windows Run Menu. I'd suggest the following:
- From ROCDiagnosticsExplorer, look under each controller to find the list of Proxy Client modules sending data to this node.
- From DeltaV Explorer, go to the modules and view References. This will list the database references to the module and show you where the module references are created.
Andre Dicaire