Re: [foxboro] Feedback to Stan Brown

From: Neil Martin <neil_martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:20:43 -0600



Hi Alex,

Can you answer a few questions?

1.  When can we expect the release of 8.1?

2.  In a mixed CP270, CP40a, CP60 environment, at 8.1, can we have the AW70
host the CP270s, and the remaining CPs still hosted by an AW51 station?


Neil Martin,    P.E.
Huntsman Polymers Corporation
2505 South Grandview
Odessa, TX.  79766
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Mesh - The Mesh network can be used with V4.3/6.1 and later systems - once
the ATS is released - to replace the CBLAN. It does require the purchase of
one AW70 to act as the ATS boot host and to run NFD and SysMon, but that
box
does not need to be used for anything else. Of course, the existing
AW/WP51s
can remain unchanged at their current level.

CP270s - If one extends the use of the AW70 mentioned above to hosting CPs,
you can use the CP270s with Solaris WPs at V4.3/6.1 and later as soon as
V8.1 is released.

If the "base" system is V6.4 or later, you can use the IACC to configure
the
CPs. You will not have to "touch" the AW70 during normal operations.

AIM*Historian has the ability to export data directly to Oracle today.


Regards,

Alex Johnson
Invensys Process Systems
Invensys Systems, Inc.
10707 Haddington
Houston, TX 77043
713.722.2859 (voice)
713.722.2700 (switchboard)
713.932.0222 (fax)
ajohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Brown [mailto:stanb@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 6:46 PM
To: Johnson, Alex (Foxboro)
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Can't figure out a way to justify it.

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 06:35:47PM -0500, Johnson, Alex (Foxboro) wrote:
> Thanks, Stan.
>
> I appreciate the feedback.
>
> 1. Offer us something we _want_ to justify (that's spelled UNIX!).
> 2. Offer increased reliabilty (Longer MTF, lower MTR).
> 3. Enhance self diagnostics.
> 4. Offer better easier to understand control functionality.
> 5. Make configuration easier.
> 6. Make configuration documentation easier.
> 7. Provide enhabce conectivity to open databases.
>
>
> I think you will find that V8's CPs and Mesh network address point 2.

I would absolutely agree, and someday we poor 2nd class UNIX users
will be able to take advantage of these :-)
>
> We are working on improving the configuration process - points 4, 5, and
6

Right, the new stuff looks good.
>
> Tell me about point 7. What data are you interested in getting into what
> database?

Well, on a system we built in house, a number of years ago, the actual
trend data goes directly into an Oracle database. This lets me use
SQL to query the data. Remarkable useful.

If I were to do it today, I would use Postgress, but MySQL is popular
(iff significantly less powerful0>


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