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See the Release Notes for more information about software changes since version 8.10, in particular a list of modifications and known issues.
What’s new in version 8.2 Service Pack 2?
This section lists all major new features and enhancements in version 8.2 Service Pack 2.
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| Single-Sign On support for automatic login when using the Supervisor in Microsoft® Windows Terminal Server environment along with Microsoft® Windows authentication based on domain controllers and Active Directory. |
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New online help in German and Japanese.
Updated online help in Russian. |
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| The DVD splitter tool can no longer be used and is not supplied. |
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| 225+ fixes and enhancements. |
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HMI
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| 3D mimics, mimic templates and symbols can now be saved in plain text format – It is possible to generate such objects via third-party tools. |
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| Trend viewer – It is now possible to display time values formatted in the form dd hh:mm:ss:lll in the legend area and in trend scales. |
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| The log viewer now supports sort features and context mimics as already available with the alarm viewer. |
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| The log viewer time filter now supports both start and end times or start time and direction. |
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Real time Data management
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| Variable extended attributes and simulated flag can also be persistent. |
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| Performance improvements on loading and unloading phases. |
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Alarms management
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| A new set of levels has been added in addition to alarm priority: Acknowledgement, mask and maintenance levels. The ability for users to acknowledge, mask or take alarms into account can now be independent to the alarm priority. Additional properties have been added to the user profile to accommodate this. |
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SCADA Basic scripting
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| In addition to the parameter-based built-in sort features, log and alarm viewers sorting is fully scriptable to comply with custom needs. |
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| A new mode is available to execute scripts when a user clicks in the log and alarm viewers, thus allowing any custom processing on the selected alarms or logged events. |
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| The AIGrid macro-animation is now fully scriptable via the SELECTOR verb. |
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Data Acquisition
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New protocols:
- MEWTOCOL-COM for ET1 – TCP based driver for communication with Panasonic devices (formerly Matsushita). The driver for communication with FP series PLCs via serial port was already available,
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The Supervisor now takes advantage of LNS-TE lost node detection, widely improving the system responsiveness in case of massive disconnections or power supply issues on the network side – in particular in case of Lonworks® router loss.
LNS® package versions prior to 3.2 are no longer supported. |
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| Support for double floating point data mapped on Word frames. |
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| OPC XML-DA: Performance improvements. |
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| LNS: Various fixes and enhancements both in the configuration & diagnostic environment and at runtime. |
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Communication interfaces
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OPC Server
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The OPC-Security specification has been implemented along with other means to restrict unexpected third-party access via the OPC server, thus reducing the attack surface of the Supervisor:
- The OPC server can be disabled, preventing any OPC client connection,
- The OPC server can be configured to require the use of the OPC-Security authentication interfaces when an OPC client tries to connect to the Supervisor,
- Security can be turned-off in order to accept connections from OPC clients not supporting the standard authentication process.
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More item properties are available for OPC clients. In addition to the minimum and maximum values, and the control level, the following are now available: Binary and text extended attributes, domain, nature, minimum and maximum values for control, threshold values and the simulation flag.
The extended attributes, threshold values and the simulation flag can be read and set by OPC clients; the other properties are read-only. |
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In addition to these developments, it is now possible to rule and limit the visibility of data in the address space when the Supervisor is browsed. Access rights can be enforced for browsing and commands.
Where the OPC client supports the standard OPC identification interfaces, all connections, disconnections and write operations can be logged in historical data as user actions, along with the name of the OPC client as user name. |
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WebVue
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Most of the new features of the log and alarm viewers are also available in WebVue:
- Sort,
- User selection scripting.
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The trend viewer component has been widely improved:
- SCADA Basic scripting: Verb TREND modes SETVAR, CLEARVAR, GETDATETIME, SETDATETIME and GETCURSORVALUE,
- Printing: Support for the orientation & background color,
- Value and time scale management,
- Curves rendering and zoom support.
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Configuration environment
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Smart Generator
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Smart Generator for FactoryLink® enhancements:
- Automatic conversion of Modbus TCP communication objects and mapping,
- Tag scaling properties are now taken into account,
- mlang.dat file version 8.0 now supported.
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| Smart Generator for LNS® – Export your selections of device template’s network variables and import them into any other project to minimize the integration workload when re-using the SG-LNS. |
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Smart Generator for CAD:
- Enhancements to provide a graphical tool for matching the AutoCAD® block references with the Supervisor’s objects,
- Gif files support for background images,
- New option for defining symbol location in generated mimics.
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| Smart Generator for XML Generic Import – Bug fixes and enhancements. |
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| Smart Generator for ISaGRAF® – OPC server v3.0 now supported. |
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| Miscellaneous |
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| Event triggers can now be defined with alarm transitions: MASK>UNMASK, UNMASK>MASK … |
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What’s new in version 8.2 Service Pack 1?
This section lists all major new features and enhancements in version 8.2 Service Pack 1.
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Version 8.2 Service Pack 1
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The Smart Generator for CAD usability has been improved by providing an enhanced block reference editor allowing a visual block to branch correspondence.
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New – The DBImport tool enables you to import data to HDS tables. The format supported gives you the option to import files created when using the HDS export feature.
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New user and profile properties: Display name, Job title and Role.
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Drivers for SAIA® devices now support PLC time stamping.
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New 65 000 I/O license option.
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80+ bug fixes and enhancements.
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What’s new in version 8.2?
This section lists all major new features and enhancements in version 8.2.
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The Supervisor is now shipped on DVD.
A tool is provided to split the contents of the DVD into 2 CDs for target PCs that do not have a DVD drive.
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Microsoft® Windows Vista support – x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) architectures.
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Microsoft® Windows Server 2008 partial support* – x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) architectures.
*Only Terminal Server and web-based features are validated
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Support for Microsoft® Windows authentication based on domain controllers and Active Directory to allow your domain users to login as users of the Supervisor.
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Central project management and version control tool fully reworked (bug fixes and new Look & Feel).
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New presentation language: Japanese.
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Component Registration Utility for use when multiple versions of the Supervisor are installed on the same PC. Just run it prior to launch a version to automatically re-register the Supervisor’s components as the installation process does.
A component registration check is now made during the Supervisor’s startup.
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A new section can be found on the DVD – The Supervisor’s Add-ons. It contains a set of complementary tools. The first 2 available with this version are:
- The WebScheduler version 1.0 – It enables you to run scheduled tasks and configure them locally or via Internet.
- Dream Report® version 3.3 – A powerful tool that will help you design, generate and publish your reports.
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HMI
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Navigator – Provides a thumbnail display of a mimic.
Changing the targeted position in the thumbnail by mouse drag automatically scrolls the mimic and vice-versa, scrolling and zooming in the mimic automatically changes the position in the thumbnail.
This new feature is designed for both ‘smart navigation’ in runtime mode and as a help in design mode for very large mimics.
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Trend viewer – Auto-focus.
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Improvement in mimic panning, horizontal scrolling and mouse action customization.
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Tooltips in design mode display properties of the object the mouse is over (branch, object name etc.).
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New Text graphic object for 3D mimics.
Provides for the display 3D texts, register values, labels…
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A new option allows highlighting graphic objects that are supporting control zone animations.
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A new property permits the inhibition of the mimic background color for printing.
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Historical Data management
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Maintenance Plan to automate and synchronize HDS database maintenance tasks: Export, Purge…
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Alarms management
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It is now possible to display the timestamp for all alarm events on a single line in the alarm viewer: On-Acknowledge-Off.
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SCADA Basic scripting
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New SCADA Basic script editor:
- Color highlighting to facilitate script edition,
- Auto-completion (IntelliSense®)support for an easy and error-free script editing,
- Contextual help for language instructions (verbs),
- Code snippets to automate insertion of common code fragments (program and function comments, loop, conditional statements, new sub…),
Selection and insertion of Supervisor objects’ name instead of typing them in (variable names, branches, mimic names). |
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VBA scripting
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Trend viewer objects can now be scripted using VBA.
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Communication
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Protocols
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Support for temporary LNS monitor sets.
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New protocols:
– CwIpCitilog for communication with Citilog Video matrix.
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Networking
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A server can now belong to more than one association. It opens the Supervisor to distributed architectures where multiple local servers are backed-up by one or more centralized servers.
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3-level architectures are now supported – A client station can be used as a gateway for the 3rd level.
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WebVue
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Microsoft® IIS 7 support for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
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New presentation languages: Chinese and Japanese.
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Bug fix and many improvements in graphical objects and animation support, in particular the Trend Viewer.
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Configuration environment
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Improvement of the environment:
– Look & Feel.
– Performance.
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Dialog boxes rework for the following objects configuration: LNS, DDE and User rights management.
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For OPC, LNS and DDE communication objects, status information has been added, as well as a direct control for starting and stopping data exchanges. This can be of great help during testing and commissioning phases.
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Smart Generator
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Smart Generator for FactoryLink® helps you convert your FL applications to Supervisor applications.
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Smart Generator for LNS completely automates the configuration of communication objects and variables using your LonWorks® database and device templates.
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Smart Generator for CAD enables you to generate mimics by importing DWG and DXF files. This all-in-one tool allows you to clean up the original CAD file in order to generate a simplified background image (change colors – filters on Xref, layers and blocks), substitute CAD blocks with graphic symbols, and generate fully animated mimics.
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Smart Generator for ISaGRAF® completely automates the configuration of communication objects and variables using your ISaGRAF® configuration database in order to exchange data using the ISaGRAF® OPC server.
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Smart Generator for WAGO-Codesys® completely automates the configuration of communication objects and variables using your WAGO® configuration in order to exchange data using Modbus over TCP/IP.
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System requirements
Operating Systems
Only operating systems from the Microsoft® Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2008 Server and Windows 2003 Server families are supported.
Qualified and fully operational:
- Windows XP Professional Edition with Service Pack 2 or Service Pack 3, 32-bit version
- Windows Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate Editions
- Windows Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate Editions with Service Pack 1
- Windows Server 2003 Standard and Enterprise Editions, 32-bit version
- Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard and Enterprise Editions, 32-bit version
Operational but may have limitations in use. Please contact technical support before using any of these:
- Windows XP Embedded with Service Pack 2 or Service Pack 3
- Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
- Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005
- Windows Vista Home Premium Edition
- Windows Server 2008 Standard and Enterprise Editions
- Any operating systems hosted in a system virtual machine such as Microsoft® Virtual PC or VMWare®.
NOT supported:
- Windows XP Home Edition
- Windows XP Professional Edition, 64-bit versions
- Windows Vista Starter and Home Basic Editions
- Windows Server 2003, 64-bit versions
- Windows Server 2003 R2, 64-bit versions
- Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based systems
- Windows CE (Windows mobile)
For all operational editions of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) processor architectures are supported.
Editions of Windows XP and Windows Vista designated as ‘N’ or ‘KN’ versions include the same functionality as the corresponding standard editions, except that they do not include Windows Media Player and related technologies such as Windows Movie Maker.
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Required:
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer version 6 or later.
Recommended MINIMUM PC configuration
- Processor – 1.0 GHz for 32-bit systems (x86) or 1.4 GHz for 64-bit systems (x64).
- System Memory – 1 GB for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003; 2 GB for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
- Available hard disk space – at least 2 GB.
- Graphics – Super VGA (1024 × 768 pixels) for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
For Windows Vista, Microsoft® recommends the following for full support of the Aero mode and DirectX 9:
- A WDDM display driver,
- At least 128 MB of graphics memory,
- Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware,
- 32 bits per pixel,
- DVD-ROM – Required for installation only.
The above represent the minimum requirements. For advice on specific applications please contact Technical Support.
For information about the Windows’ user rights required to install and run the Supervisor see the installation help.
Installation
See the installation help for more information and help about pre-requisites and the installation process itself.
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