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
  • Versions 6.25 to current releases require one of the following:
    • Windows Server 2008/2012/2016 (32/64), or
    • Windows 7/8/10 (32/64)
  • Versions 6.24 and earlier require any one of the following:
    • Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 (32/64),
    • Windows 7/8/10 (32/64), or
    • Windows XP, Vista (32/64)
• 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