TopView Requirements
TopView has few requirements beyond the chosen data source.
Data Source
- TopView OPC/SCADA
OPC DA/HDA Servers: OPC Data Access (DA) 2.05 or later or OPC Historical Data Access (HDA) version 1.1 or later. - TopView OPC A&E (TopView Events)
OPC Alarms and Events Servers: OPC A&E 1.1 - TopView PI
PISDK: 1.3.6.361 or later (32 bit) on the TopView computer.
AFSDK: v 2.8.6.7801 (PI AF Client 2016-R2-SP1) or later - TopView Canary Labs
Canary Labs Enterprise Historian v9.7 or later
Note: if you are using a 64-bit OS, you must install the 64-bit version of the Canary Labs Historian - TopView SQL
ODBC or OLEDB Databases. May require ODBC driver or OLEDB Provider from database vendor. - TopView PerfMon
No special requirements.
Computer (physical or VM)
- Operating Systems
- TopView version 6.33 and later
- Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607) or later (32/64)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, 2012, 2012R2, 2016, 2019 (32/64)
- TopView version 6.25 to 6.32
- Windows Server 2008/2012/2016 (32/64)
- Windows 7/8/10 (32/64)
- TopView version 6.24 and earlier
- Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 (32/64)
- Windows 7/8/10 (32/64)
- Windows XP, Vista (32/64)
- TopView version 6.33 and later
- Third party software: Microsoft .Net Framework
TopView requires the Microsoft .Net Framework and provides this with the installation if it is not already present. The following minimum versions are required:- TopView 6.33 and later: .Net Framework 4.7.2
- TopView 6.29-6.32: .Net Framework 4.6.1
- TopView 6.25-6.28: .Net Framework 4.6.1 and 3.5 SP1
- TopView 6.12-6.24: .Net Framework 4.0 and 3.5 SP1
- TopView 6.8-6.11: .Net Framework 3.5 SP1
- TopView 6.0-6.7: .Net Framework 2.0
- CPU
Any current CPU. TopView can take advantage of multi-core CPUs. - Disk
10GB free disk space recommended. This is much more than typically used by TopView, but it is quite small considering the size of today’s hard drives.
TopView log files will accumulate over time but can be automatically purged. - Memory
Each running TopView Engine (configuration) will typically use 20-200 MB memory.
We recommended 500MB of free RAM before TopView is running, plus 200MB per additional running TopView Engine. - SQL Server (optional)
SQL Server 2000 or later for optional alarm and snapshot logging