Hi eveyone newbie

[purencool]

Hi everyone I am a newbie. I am find the set up for open scada documentation lets say limited. The most pressing questions I have right now are,

1. Can I access openscada  modbus over tcpip?
2. Once I have download the other modules like aurora where do I put them?
3. If add the modules to the plugin directory how do I know that they are working? 
4. Does openscada have a web interface how do is start it and where do I access it.

There might be documentation on this but I can't seem to find any if some one could point me in the right direction that would

be great.

[Jens Reimann]

Hi,

well we know that documentation is currently one of the biggest issues with openSCADA. But if you have an actual setup you are interested in, I am glad to help you and document that right away.

Now to your questions:
1.) Yes. openSCADA "speaks" Modbus RTU and TCP.
2.) + 3.) openSCADA has two ways of deploying a runnable system. Some require OSGi as a runtime environment. This is a bit difficult to explain in a few sentences. While other drives modules are plain java applications which can be started from the command line. For Ubuntu there are debian packages which aid in setting up the system. For Windows there is a "driver package" which installs the drivers as a windows service. The most "problematic" part is the OSGi container area. Currently we are only testing with Equinox and we made some setup scripts in python that work on Linux.
4.) openSCADA has a basic configuration interface (called "CA") accessible using the OSTC application. This CA system is used for OSGi based applications. The drivers use XML files for configuration.

So if you can tell me a little bit more about your setup (windows, ubuntu, ...) I might try to help you in getting it up and running without to much troubles.

[pure...@gmail.com]

Thanks for the reply,

I am running it on ubuntu 12.04 in 32bit virtual machine. I have download the tar files OSTC into my home
folder on the virtual machine and got it running after following the install on the wiki using eclipse from apt-get repos. The I have done a git pull on the other scada modules but don't know what to do with them or where to put
them.

I have installed the modbus package from the ubuntu repos as well

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[Victor Rocha]

hi jens, colleagues

as you know i develop scadabr, i must admit we are a bit jealous of the high-tech robust architecture of openscada :-)

however it is still so painfull for starters.

is that intentional? are you aiming specifically at power-users?

or is it only that time is lacking for more user-friendliness?

we forked from mango years ago, and now face some issues like missing code (for around 1% of mango) and few voluntary developers.

as a business, sometimes we feel it is taking too much time to take off.

on the other hand, we have a bunch of protocols, and it is so user-friendly ;-)

would you and others consider joining efforts? i mean, like trying to glue mango as HMI to openscada in the long-run.

i could develop "openscada" as a mango datasource, having it as an alternative back-end for robust, modular applications.

or port parts of gui (we have jsp/rudiments of jsf/ and flash) to equinox maybe

just cloudy thoughts for now, but who says it couldnt evolve?

best regards

[Jens Reimann]

Joining efforts sound like a good idea! I think we should talk! :)

However today is not a good day, since Hosteurope still has problems, or lack of interest, in getting our server back up and running. So we are in the process of switching the provider. But I will contact you beginning next week if this is ok for you.

[Victor Rocha]

Thats nice, Jens,

Don´t need to worry, we are working on a veeeeery loose schedule.

:-)

I will talk to my colleagues to start finding common points of work.

best regards and nice weekend