Source Type

This information is specific to the latest release of PARCview:

7.2.x

This is a list of Capstone-supported drivers for typical historians. A source type is also called a “dataseries” and functions as an interpretative layer between Capstone’s OPC HDA and OPC UA servers and underlying tag historians.

PARCSecurity Permissions

PARCsecurity Console should be configured for the following permissions for rights to System Configuration elements.

• DataPARC Admin: Grants administrative access to PARCview.
• System Config Process Area: Grants access to the Process Area tab in System Configuration.
• System Config Process Tags: Grants access to the Process Tags tab in System Configuration.
• System Config Reason/Evidence/Category: Grants access to the Reason, Evidence and Category tabs in System Configuration.

Configuration

This is a list provided by Capstone and not typically modified. Each dataseries type can vary with regards to its configuration and abilities.

Log Files

PARCMessage is a built-in error monitoring software. It creates an ongoing log of errors generated from PARCview on the specific computer where PARCMessage is running in the system tray. The Icon in the tray is a triangle, red if errors are present, and green if there are no errors.

Errors can also be stored in the PARCview install directory both on the server and clients ...\Capstone\PARCView\LogFiles.

Required Server Applications

No server applications are required to use System Configuration.

UA Server: All PARCview vr 7 functionality requires a Universal Access (UA) server.

GDS: All PARCview vr 7 functionality requires a Global Discovery Server (GDS).