[foxboro] IACC v2.1

A little development question on IACC...
 

During our recent upgrade, we installed IACC v.2.1 on our one and only
AW70XP machine, which was purchased for a specific project that required
the ability to configure HART devices (I'm still not sure if we could
have configured HART devices using Solaris and the ICC, but that's
neither here nor there).  At some point in the future, I'd like to be
able to start using IACC to configure the rest of our "legacy" CP's,
which are hosted by two new AW51G boxes at Solaris 8.  From the
experience of the engineer who is working on the project with the HART
devices, he really likes it and thinks it would be a good idea to
migrate away from ICC to IACC.  I know that you can install IACC on
off-platform client PC's and use the second ethernet port to do the
configuration.  However, Version 2.1 of IACC says that it will only run
on off-platform PC's that are at XP Service Pack 2.  Our company does
not allow us to run XP Service Pack 2 on our desktop PC's, and they
appear to be sticking with that for the near future (at least) due to
various compatibility issues.

 

My questions are: 1) Is there any compatibility reason why I couldn't
run a previous version of IACC, one that works with XP SP1, on the
client PC's and still have version 2.1 on the on-platform AW70XP?  The
two versions wouldn't be trying to access the same CP's, but they would
have a common database, I guess; and 2) If the answer to the first
question is "yes", will there ever be a newer version of IACC available
that can be loaded both on an on-platform AW70XP and on an XP client
that is at SP1, or is that not in the works?

 

I'm trying to figure out whether or not to schedule a training class on
IACC for our group, but if we can't even load the software on our
desktop PC's, it doesn't seem worthwhile.

 

Tim Lowell

Control Systems Engineer

ConocoPhillips Trainer Refinery

(610) 364-8362

tim.c.lowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 


 
 
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