Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 356)

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For information about FactoryTalk View SE platform requirements that might affect the
design of a redundant system, see the FactoryTalk View Site Edition Installation Guide.
For information about limits and requirements that apply to redundant data servers
(RSLinx Enterprise, RSLinx Classic, or another OPC-DA server), see the product
documentation.
Activating FactoryTalk View SE in a redundant system
To further maximize the availability of HMI data in a redundant FactoryTalk system,
ensure that FactoryTalk View SE software components can obtain the necessary
activations.
The FactoryTalk View SE Server software must be installed and activated on the primary
and the secondary HMI server in a redundant pair.
To ensure that HMI servers and FactoryTalk View SE Clients can always obtain
activation, it is recommended that activation be provided locally, on server and client host
computers.
For more information about activating FactoryTalk View software, see the FactoryTalk
View Site Edition Installation Guide.
For information about activating data servers, including RSLinx Enterprise and RSLinx
Classic, see the product documentation.
Setting up redundant servers in FactoryTalk View SE
You can specify an alternate server for any FactoryTalk View SE Server (also called the
HMI server), FactoryTalk Alarms and Events server, RSLinx Enterprise server, or OPC
data server (including RSLinx Classic) in a network distributed application.
In FactoryTalk View SE, the alternate (or backup) server in a redundant server pair is
called the secondary server.
Summary of steps
In FactoryTalk View Studio, after you develop and test the network distributed
application, do the following for any type of application server you want to make
redundant:
1. Install and activate the necessary software on the secondary computer.
For information about installing the FactoryTalk View SE software, see the
FactoryTalk View Site Edition Installation Guide.
The FactoryTalk Network Directory is part of the integrated FactoryTalk architecture.