See the Release Notes for information about problems fixed with this release.
See the Security Addendum for information about security enhancements in this release.
Please note:
CitectSCADA version 7.10 includes the following new features:
For further information about new features, see the online help.
You must upgrade your current CitectSCADA license key in order to run V7.10. To check if your Software Protection Key is capable of running Version 7.10 go to CitectSCADA Explorer > Help > Citect Key Update and verify the CitectSCADA Version is 7.1x.
If your CitectSCADA Version is 7.0 you are entitled to a free upgrade to
v7.10. Use the Citect website Auth Code Generator to get a
new authorization code at http://www.citect.com/authcode, or contact Citect
Technical Support.
If you need to update your version and you are NOT in Support and are not already licensed for Version 7.0 contact your local sales representative.
Version 7.10 has been tested to run on:
Notes:
Refer to the CitectSCADA Installation and Configuration Guide provided on the DVD for this detailed information.
In this release of CitectSCADA an Installation and Configuration Guide in PDF format is included with the documentation on the distribution disk. It is important that you read this document carefully prior to performing the installation to ensure a satisfactory installation of the software.
When you insert the distribution disk in your drive and you have autostart enabled, CitectSCADA Setup starts up automatically to guide you with your installation choices. An alternative way to start CitectSCADA Setup is to double-click the setup.exe file that appears in the root directory of the distribution disk. We recommend that you use the CitectSCADA Setup utility to install our products as installing the individual product setups separately is not optimal.
Notes:
Only selected drivers are included in this release (see Restrictions and Limitations for further information on drivers). You can use the DriverWeb utility at http://www.citect.com/driverweb to check that you have the latest versions of drivers.
To improve the security of your SCADA system and provide compatibility with Windows Vista, CitectSCADA 7.10 can now be run under a standard user account (i.e. one without administrator privileges). To achieve this, some modifications to the location of files installed by CitectSCADA have been made. These changes apply to all supported operating systems. Specifically, it is not possible for standard users to write to the Program Files or System directories, which means the citect.ini file cannot live in the Bin or Windows directory, and the User folder cannot live under Program Files. It is advisable that you accept the default installation path when installing, or ensure that your chosen User/Data folder is writable by standard users.
When installed on Windows XP or earlier, configuration and project files are stored in the Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/ folder. When installed on Windows Vista, configuration and project files are stored in the ProgramData/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/ folder. Install locations are as follows:
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File type |
Platform |
Install Path |
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Configuration files such as the citect.ini file |
Pre-Vista |
Documents and Settings/All Users/Application
Data/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/Config |
|
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ProgramData/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/Conf
ig |
|
|
User directory |
Pre-Vista |
Documents and Settings/All Users/Application
Data/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/User |
|
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ProgramData/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/User
|
|
|
Data directory |
Pre-Vista |
Documents and Settings/All Users/Application
Data/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/Data |
|
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ProgramData/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/Data
|
|
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Log files All log files produced by drivers are written to a sub-foldercalled 'Drivers'. |
Pre-Vista |
Documents and Settings/All Users/Application
Data/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/Logs |
|
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ProgramData/Citect/CitectSCADA 7.10/Logs
|
For Version 6.10 users, before upgrading your projects it is important that you read and understand the Whats New and Upgrading sections of the online help, or the CitectSCADA User Guide, and the Migration section of the Installation Guide as significant structural changes occurred in Version 7.0. The ability to use Project Fonts inside buttons has been removed and replaced. (see What’s New in online help). During project upgrade CitectSCADA will look up the project font being used by a button and convert it into the appropriate font properties on the Button.
Windows enforces that all time manipulation requires Administration privileges. CitectSCADA has been changed to only require Standard User privileges and as a result means the existing TimeSet cicode function is now obsolete. For time synchronization the new CitectSCADA Time Synchronization service should be used.
Please note the following:
Windows
Integrated Security
CitectSCADA
User login security is performed both by the Client process and by any Server
processes that the Client connects to. With a standard CitectSCADA user the
full user credentials are configured in each projects, so the Client and Server
processes both must match to be valid. With Windows Integrated Security, in a
stand-alone system, all processes run on the same physical computer, so any
Windows User can be successfully validated by both sides. For a networked
system where the Client process is not on the same machine as the Server
processes, only a Windows Domain User is allowed as it is able to be
independently validated by a Domain Controller.
Runtime-Graphics
When using dynamic page resizing, please be aware that a change has been made to scale (rather than stretch) all text regardless of whether it is static or dynamic text providing a smoother display.
The Windows Vista environment introduced a radically different architecture with a significant increase in security checks that has impacted on application performance. Running CitectSCADA servers on a Windows Vista computer will incur a performance penalty and at this point in time is not recommended.
Windows Firewall
During CitectSCADA installation, if you are running Windows Vista or Windows XP SP2 and have the Windows Firewall enabled, you are given the option of allowing the CitectSCADA Setup to modify your firewall settings by adding CitectSCADA Runtime and FTP Server to the Windows Firewall’s list of authorized programs. If the Windows Firewall is not enabled, this dialog is not displayed.
The following are known problems which are not yet fixed in this release.
38532 - On Vista, when starting the WebClient after starting the Display Client on the same computer an error message “Unexpected error;quitting” will appear. This error will appear for projects using the ItemList.exe ActiveX control, for example the CSV Example project. This issue can be worked around by either not running the WebClient on the same computer as a display client, or to first run the WebClient and then run the CitectSCADA Display client, and then restart the WebClient (if needed).
41794 - Batch fails to install on Windows Server 2003. This
is because of legacy restrictions in the length of the install path for
DAO. A workaround is to copy the whole 'Batch' folder on the DVD to the
root drive (C:\ usually), and then run the Batch setup.exe from there.
41810 - On
This issue can be worked around in several ways.
Option
A:
Run the web client before
installing CitectSCADA.
Option
B:
1. Un-install CitectSCADA.
2. Re-run the WebClient with the project that uses the ActiveX servers.
3. Re-install CitectSCADA.
Option
C:
1. Un-register
any ActiveX servers in the common files folder. ActiveX servers are ActiveX
controls that have an .EXE extension.
1.1. Open a
command prompt with Administrators privileges by going Start->All Programs->Accessories
and right click on the command prompt menu item and click the Run as
Administrator option.
1.2. go to Common program files by typing > cd %CommonProgramFiles%\Citect in
the command prompt
1.3. Un register the ItemList
Control by typing > ItemList.exe /UnRegServer in
the command prompt
1.4. Repeat
the previous step with any other ActiveX Servers e.g. MsgBox.exe
1.5. the command prompt may now be closed.
2. Re-run the WebClient with the project that uses the ActiveX servers.
Hotfixes
The following are recent hotfixes for existing issues in v7.0 which have
not been ported to the v7.10 code base. The status of these issues within v7.10
has not been tested.
37854 – High CPU on standby alarm server at startup.
37867 – Improvements in time needed to create all trend files from scratch.
38453 – Fix for missing comments when cicode TrnPrint() is used.
38644 – Crash in animator during cicode PageAnimate() when the background Cicode (the page event “while page shown”) performs a call to the WinFree() Cicode function.
38748 - Alarm updates not sent to redundant server when [ALARM]SaveStyle=4 set.
38833 – Tag values not updated on Standby I/O Dev when StandbyWrite mode on a single I/O Server.
39326 - Active Alarms sometimes displaying at random on graphics in place of objects during runtime.
40585 – Cicode TagSubscribe() spawns a new cicode task on every execution. This can cause “Out of Cicode threads”.
Performance Issues
These issues are known to Citect and are being worked on in the next release. Tips and hints on how to improve results in the current v7x releases will be posted inside the Citect KB system at http://www.citect.com/kb as an ongoing task. Please check here occasionally (particularly “Upgrade Issues”) for updates or subscribe to the RSS feed for real time updates. You will need a valid MyCitect username and password.
Cicode TagWrite() – TagWrite() performance is slower than in pre v7 versions. The visible affect of this maybe a slow down in system response depending on the volume of writes. This issue will be resolved in the next release of CitectSCADA.
Cicode
TagInfoEx() – TagInfoEx() performance is slower than the existing TagInfo() function. See KB 5136
for some suggestions to improve this. This issue will be resolved in the next
release of CitectSCADA.
Page Updates -
Page updates are slower than pre v7 when waiting for many tags to be read,
especially if the source is from more than one IO Device. See KB 5129
and KB
5136 for some suggestions to improve this.
This issue will be resolved in the next
release of CitectSCADA.
Analog variables - Analog reads cause greater system loading than pre v7 if used without deadbands defined. See KB 5137 for information on how to set deadbands.
Local Variables – Slow performance when local variables are used (local variables replaced “memory” tags from v7). See KB 5147. This issue will be resolved in the next release of CitectSCADA.
Slow Startup – This occurs in a limited situation where no Internet access is available and certain network files are not available. See KB 5163 for details and the work around.
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