PB5501.

TrainTools Server Softwareproduct bulletin

W Controller Communication
and Data Archiving
Server Software
TrainTools human-machine interface (HMI) programs employ a
U
modular, client-server approach that allows multiple Windows
PCs to simultaneously display data from the same controllers
without overloading their central processing units (CPUs) and
PID communication channels.

TrainTools Server
A/D Archival Data Local Remote
Manager Clients Clients

Alarm and
Event Servers TT Web TrainTools
CCC and Services Web Gateway
Third-Party
Controllers OPC/DA Modbus Third-Party
Servers Slave Modbus Host

Any system employing TrainTools HMI programs must include at

least one PC running an appropriate server software package:
RAM • The full Server Package, which includes all OPC/DA servers,
all alarm and event (AE) servers, archival data management,
and the web communication services, is required in order to
run the TrainView2 or TV2Web client software (see PB5522).
• The Platform Servers package, which omits the archival data
management and web communication programs, is sufficient
for running only the field Engineering Utilities (see PB5511).

OPC Online Data Access Servers

Each platform communication server program allows OPC/DA
clients to communicate with a specific type of controller (third-
party clients may not be compatible):
• The Series 5 OPC Server provides access to the HMI
variables of Series 5 Vanguard and Reliant Controllers.
• The Series 4 OPC Server provides access to the parameter
database variables of Series 4 application function modules.
• The Series 3 OPC Server provides access to supersets of the
Modbus data provided by Series 3/3 Plus / 3++ Controllers.
• The Modbus OPC Server provides access to configured
subsets of the Modbus data provided by third-party slaves.
• The Script Engine OPC Server calculates custom data items
based on inputs from OPC/DA servers.

PB5501 (1.0) May 2007

 PB5501 (1.0) May 2007

A Alarm and Event Servers

Each AE Server posts and provides a management interface for
TrainTools (not OPC) alarm and event messages:

Features: • The Series 5 AE Server (part of the Series 5 OPC program)

posts messages created from Series 5 Controller AE notices.
• Local and remote client • The Generic Controller AE Server posts configured messages
programs share a single triggered by binary OPC data items.
controller connection and • The Script Engine AE Server signals conditions calculated
archival database from one or more OPC data items of any type.
The GC and SE servers are used to create AE messages for
• Clients can monitor multiple
Series 3* and 4 Controllers, and third-party Modbus slaves.
groups of turbomachines by
simultaneously connecting Archival Data Manager
to more than one server PC The archival data programs record and allow the TrainView2 and
Archival Data Utility programs to retrieve specified OPC data
• Compatible with Series 5, 4, items and AE messages:
and 3/3 Plus/3++ Controllers, • AE messages are recorded in a single Message Channel. The
plus third-party OPC servers length of time such messages will be retained in the archive
and Modbus RTU & TCP slaves database is user configurable (typically four weeks).
• OPC data items are recorded in Tagged Data Channels with
• Scriptable calculation of
various maximum resolutions and retained times.
multivariable OPC data items
• All AE messages and OPC data recorded during brief periods
• Customizable alarm and event leading up to and immediately following specified process
messages triggered by any changes are copied to individual Critical Event Files.
OPC data items Network Communication
• Archiving of OPC data and When TrainTools client programs are run on server PCs, they
alarm and event messages communicate with the server programs using the Windows COM
(component object module) service. When run on separate work-
• Critical event files record data stations, they can communicate via either the TrainTools Web
immediately prior to and after Services (TTWS) or Windows distributed COM (DCOM) service.
specified process changes TTWS avoids the well-known problems of DCOM by encapsulat-
ing COM messages within HTTP packets. Its clients connect via
• Remote clients can employ an included WebGateway program installed on their host PCs.
TrainTools web services or The TTWS program also provides the mechanism through which
DCOM communication TrainView2Web clients download the TV2Web browser plugin
and project files (see PB5522).
• OPC data can be accessed by
Finally, the Modbus Slave OPC Client program allows Modbus
Modbus RTU and TCP masters
RTU (serial) and TCP (ethernet) masters to access OPC data
items as Modbus registers, coils, and discrete inputs.

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