Tim, It's like Mostafa said: It doesn't matter if the IP of the client changes. The IACCSettings.txt will always point the client where it should search for the IACC Database. To make IACC look for the settings file, you have to delete the system variable "IACC_DBNAME" Wim >From: "Lowell, Timothy" <TLowell@xxxxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: [foxboro] IACC Client/Server installation >Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:57:51 -0500 > >I know that there aren't many IACC users out there, but we ran into a >little issue that is likely to occur at any site that uses IACC in a >Client/Server architecture using the second Ethernet port, and I need to >verify what appears to be a simple solution. > > >During the installation of IACC on a client PC, the user is prompted to >enter a hostname or IP address that identifies the IACC server PC. If >you are using the MESH network to do your client/server communications, >this is pretty straightforward, since the IP addresses are set by SysDef >and rarely change, except for some sort of major network consolidation >or upgrade that might happen every few years. However, if you are using >the second Ethernet port for the client/server communications, things >are a little different. > > > >Now, we all know that if there is one thing that corporate IT groups are >really good at, it is changing IP addresses for no apparent reason on >the networks they control. That has occurred here with our business >network. In IACC, there is no menu option to change the server IP >address once the installation has been completed (obviously, if you type >in a hostname during installation and your business network has DNS set >up properly, this isn't an issue, but that is not the case here.) > > > >We have been instructed that the only way to correct this is to >uninstall IACC and re-install it, typing in the new IP address of the >server during the install process. I did some digging, and from what I >can tell, the only place in the client PC's registry that refers to the >IACC server IP address at all is a Windows environment variable called >IACC_DBPATH. It seems to me that modifying that environment variable >should do the trick. > > > >My questions are then, will this work, and if not, why not? > > > >Thanks, > > > >Tim Lowell > >Control Systems Engineer > >Tesoro Petroleum Company > >210-283-2929 (w) > >210-253-0225 (c) > >tlowell@xxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave