HF scientific Online SCADA System User Manual
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Table of Contents
1.0
System Set Up ..............................................................................................1
1.1
Minimum Hardware Requirements for Lookout ............................1
1.2
Testing TCP/IP.................................................................................1
2.0
Software Installation ...................................................................................2
2.1
Installing National Instruments Lookout ........................................2
2.2
Installing the Online SCADA Files .................................................3
2.3
Setup Lookout for Online SCADA ...............................................3
2.3.1 System Options ...................................................................3
2.3.2 Startup .................................................................................4
2.3.3 Serial Port ...........................................................................6
2.3.4 Security Set Up and User Accounts (optional) ...................7
2.4
Setting Up ODBC ..........................................................................9
2.5
Lookout Registration and Licensing ............................................14
3.0 Data
Acquisition
.......................................................................................15
3.1 Overview
.......................................................................................15
3.2
Summary Panel .............................................................................15
3.3
Faceplate Panel .............................................................................17
3.4
HyperTrend ...................................................................................18
3.5
Edit Device Dialog Box ................................................................19
3.6 System
Panel
.................................................................................21
4.0
Report Generation .....................................................................................23
4.1
Overview .......................................................................................23
4.2
Report Configuration Panel ..........................................................23
4.3
Printouts ........................................................................................24
4.3.1 Time Range and Interval ...................................................24
4.3.2 Database
Source
................................................................25
4.3.3 Execute
Query
...................................................................25
4.3.4 Page 1 Panel ......................................................................26
4.3.5 Page 2 Panel ......................................................................26
4.4 Database/Spreadsheet
...................................................................27
4.4.1 CSV
File
Logging
.............................................................27
4.4.2 Converting CSV Files to ACCESS Database Files ..........28
5.0 Appendix
...................................................................................................29