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Setting up advanced properties, Setting up advanced properties – 11 – Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Users Guide User Manual

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Provide redundancy using a secondary server

Select or clear this check box, depending on whether you want to set up redundancy for
the data server.

Computer running secondary server

Type the name of the computer where the secondary data server is running. To find and
select a computer, click the Browse button.

Switch back options

To prevent FactoryTalk View SE from switching back to the primary data server when it
becomes available, select the option, Continue using the secondary server even when
the primary becomes available again
.

To make FactoryTalk View SE switch back to the primary data server when it becomes
available, select the option, Switchback to the primary server when it becomes
available
.

Setting up advanced properties

In the Advanced tab, set up a cache for tags on the data server. A cache lets you view tag
names when you are not connected to the data server.

For a local application, there is no Redundancy tab in the OPC Data Server Properties dialog
box. Local applications do not support data server redundancy.