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Rockwell Automation 1757-SWKIT4000 ProcessLogix R400.0 Installation and Upgrade Guide User Manual

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Publication 1757-IN040B-EN-P - March 2002

Table of Contents vii

Installing and connecting Redundant
Chassis Pair (RCP) Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-30
Updating Firmware Revision Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-31
Creating a Redundant 1757-PLX52 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-31

Installing Knowledge Builder on a

Non-ProcessLogix System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-32

Removing Knowledge Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-32
Installing Service Pack 2 for Windows 2000. . . . . . . . . . 8-33
Installing Internet Explorer 5.5 SP1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-33
Installing MDAC2.5 SP1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-33
Installing Knowledge Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-34

Chapter 9

PC Performance for ProcessLogix
Systems

ProcessLogix Performance Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-3

PC Qualification/Installation Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-3
Redundant Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4
Server Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4
Multi-User/Location Control Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
Multiple Clients/Stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
Integrated Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5

Operating System Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5

Service/Kernel Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5

Disk Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8

File System Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8
File System Defragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-10
Defragmenting the Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-10

Memory and Swapfile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-11

Client/Station Memory Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-13
Servers with 128 MB of Physical RAM or Less.. . . . . . . . 9-13
Servers with 256 MB of Physical RAM or More. . . . . . . . 9-13
Adjusting Swapfile Size on Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . 9-14

Network Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-15

Management of Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-15
Benefits from other Network Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-17

System Usage

9-17

Topology Related Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-18

Physical Location of the Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-18
Physical location of the Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-19

Service Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-19
Network Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-19