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TopView turns 10 years old
in 2007
TopView 6.0 for OPC and PI - the next generation in Process alarming, notification, and
remote monitoring software
TopView 6.0 is a major
release of TopView containing more improvements, new features, and new
components than any previous version. TopView 6.0 includes:
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Updated Configurator and
TopView engine
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New components and
diagnostic tools
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New features
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Improved performance
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Support for Windows Vista
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Support for PI HA (High
Availability) and PI Expressions (TopView PI)
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be updated with the latest information and availability of
TopView 6.0
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TopView Configurator
The TopView Configurator allows you to create TopView configuration
files (*.cfg). Each configuration file defines the tags, operations
(calculations), alarm conditions and alarm notification settings for
one TopView Window
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Updated user interface with new Global Options screen for all
non-default TopView settings.
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New email recipient drop-down (all existing recipients) when adding
recipients to an email notification group.
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Ability to edit existing Tag Group names.
TopView Window
The TopView Window is the alarming and notification engine for
TopView. Each running TopView Window operates on the details of a
single configuration file created with the TopView Configurator. You
can run multiple TopView Windows for multiple configuration files.
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Updated interface
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In
addition to row font color, a new "Alarm" column to signal rows
in alarm (bell icon signals row is unacknowledged)
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Values View (traditional TopView Window) or Alarms View (current
alarm/unacknowledged items)
Values View
Alarms
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Remote Viewer (Desktop)
The
TopView Remote Viewer allows TopView users to monitor TopView
Windows and acknowledge alarms from anywhere on the network. The
Remote Viewer can now display the Remote Viewer icon in the System
Notification Area of your desktop. The icon will display new alarm
messages in a pop-up bubble as they occur in remote TopView Windows.
As with
previous versions, TopView 6.0 includes the TopView Configurator and
TopView Window (the engine).
Two new
components have been added to TopView 6.0:
TopView Admin Tools
Designed for detailed monitoring of running TopView Windows.
Runs on the TopView machine.
Using TopView Admin Tools, you can
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View
the current operating status, values and alarms
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View
Audible Alarms settings
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Monitor the outgoing email, modem, and voice notification queues
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Monitor current connections from the Remote Viewer
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View
the HTML summary output
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Monitor TopView performance details
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Monitor all log files (application, alarms, and notification)
TopView Information Icon
The TopView Information Icon runs in the System Notification
Area of the computer that is running TopView.
The
TopView Information Icon can be used to:
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View new alarms in a pop-up bubble (optional)
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Listen to new Audible Alarms (optional)
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View TopView Windows that are minimized to the Icon
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Monitor the current list of running TopView Windows
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Launch the TopView Configurator or TopView Admin Tools
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Support
for Windows Vista: TopView and Remote Viewer
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OPC:
Group tag reads for multiple OPC Servers
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PI: PI
Expressions: TopView can display and alarm on the result of a PI
Expression (PE Syntax) including arithmetic and if..then.else
expressions
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PI:
support for PI High Availability Servers
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PI:
PI-SDK is now used for all PI Server communication
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New
maximum 5000 tags per TopView Window
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New Alarm
condition: tag has good status
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Alarm
expiration setting
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Custom
return-to-normal (RTN) notification messages
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Latch
last good value setting (for bad status values or lost connections)
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New-line
character for custom alarm message (email notification)
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Option to
suspend alarm processing and notification on lost Server connection
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Option to
automatically re-start on configuration changes
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Ability
to automatically update tags and limits through scripts and custom
code
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New Logs
for Alarms, Notifications and Remote Dial-in
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Placeholder tags: can be used if the current row's alarm condition
does not depend on the value a tag
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HTML
output will use the same font colors as the TopView Window
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Optional
Passive FTP transfer of HTML file
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Output
Points can exist on any Server
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Failure
to setup listening for Remote Connections will retry until
successful (if port already in use)
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FTP of
HTML file on separate thread
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Email
messages now sent on a separate thread
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Application error handlers ensure increased TopView stability and
configuration storage/recovery
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