Emerson Exchange 365

The AMS Device Manager software communicates with field devices through the DCS (distributed control system) or special protocol converters, primarily using the HART protocol. In DeltaV, you have the Professional Plus "ProPlus" station that contains the offline DeltaV configuration database. In AMS Device Manager, one station is designated as the Server Plus. The Server Plus houses the AMS Device Manager databases. You can deploy one single machine (or virtual machine) with both the ProPlus and Server Plus roles installed. This is common in smaller systems. The AMS Server Plus is configured with Networks, one of which could be DeltaV. You would configure the DeltaV Network on the Server Plus and point that connector to the ProPlus. AMS Device Manager can have Client Stations, much the same as the Professional Plus has Professional Stations. The Client Stations connect to the Server Plus, and the Server Plus supplies connections to the configured Networks (including DeltaV.) When the AMS Device Manager software is opened, you can manually interrogate devices on the various configured Networks. DeltaV continuously monitors the devices connected via HART if you enable HART on the analog channel, so there is no need to try to detect problems by manually interrogating devices. Email traffic (like any other network traffic) would require you to open the correct firewall ports to traverse multiple levels of the network. In the case where the AMS Server Plus is also the ProPlus, you would use the 3rd network interface "Plant LAN" to communicate with higher level networks. Do not use the DeltaV Primary or Secondary ACN to communicate with other networks.