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16 configuration console tool, 1 characteristics, function and activation, Configuration console – Siemens Commissioning PC Stations C79000-G8976-C156-07 User Manual

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Configuration Console Tool

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Commissioning PC Stations - Manual and Quick Start
Release 5/2005

C79000-G8976-C156-07

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Configuration Console Tool

The Configuration Console is a snap-in program embedded in the Microsoft
Management Console (MMC) and provides a wide range of options for configuring
PC hardware components and PC user programs as well as providing diagnostic
functions.

Settings for the OPC servers that ship with the communication software can also
be made in the Configuration Console.

The “Configuration Console” supports the following tasks in the communications
system of a SIMATIC PC station:

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Commissioning and operation

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Editing the configuration

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Diagnostics

16.1

Characteristics, Function and Activation

How to Start the Configuration Console

Select the following from the Start menu of the Windows operating system:

Programs

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SIMATIC NET

"

Settings

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Configuration Console