National Instruments BridgeVIEW - Manual (Page 199)

Chapter 8 Servers
BridgeVIEW User Manual 8-4 © National Instruments Corporation
All Channels created with the NI-DAQ Channel Wizard appear as items
when the DAQ OPC Server is selected in BridgeVIEW.
Installing and Configuring Device Servers
from the BridgeVIEW Device Servers CD
The BridgeVIEW Device Servers CD contains servers for several PLCs
and remote I/O devices. These device servers are DLL-based servers using
the Device Server Toolkit interface to BridgeVIEW.
To install the BridgeVIEW Device Servers from the BridgeVIEW Device
Servers CD, follow these steps.
1. Insert the CD in your CD-ROM drive.
If you are running BridgeVIEW on Windows 95 or NT 4.0,
select Run… from the Start menu.
2. Follow the instructions that appear on the screen.
The Installer prompts you to select one or more servers to install. It also
installs the Server Explorer, which all the device servers contained on the
CD use for server configuration. After you run the installer, you must run
the Server Explorer to configure the device-specific parameters of your
industrial network before using the server with BridgeVIEW. The Server
Explorer also registers your server so you can use it with BridgeVIEW.
Each server on-line help file documents configuration instructions specific
to each server on the CD. See the on-line help files for your server for
more information.
Registering Simulation Servers
BridgeVIEW automatically installs three servers used by several of the
BridgeVIEW examples—the Tanks Server, the SIM Server, and the
Cookie Server. You can use these servers to experiment with Tag
Configuration and building your HMI. You also can look at the diagrams
of these servers to see how a VI-based server works.
These servers must be registered for BridgeVIEW to recognize they exist.
The three servers are contained in folders named
Tanks Server , SIM
Server , and Cookie Server in the BridgeVIEW\_servers folder.
Within each folder, each server has a VI named Register Tanks
Server.vi , Register SIM Server.vi , and Register Cookie
Server.vi respectively. To register each server, open its register VI,
run it, and close the VI. The server then appears in the BridgeVIEW list
of servers whenever you configure a tag or look at servers in the Server