DSC Module How-To
August 2006
NI Part Number:
370246E-01
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Configuring Alarms and Events
Configuring Alarms
Configuring Alarms for Boolean Shared Variables
Configuring Alarms for Double Shared Variables
Configuring Alarms for String Shared Variables
Configuring Alarms for U32 Bit Field Shared Variables
Filtering Alarms and Events in the Alarm and Event Display Control
Printing Alarms and Events
Viewing Alarms and Events Using the Alarm and Event Display Control
Logging Historical Data to the Citadel Database
Creating a Citadel ODBC Data Source
Creating a Data Link for the ODBC Data Source
Creating Data Sets for Logging
Logging Historical Data
Opening a Trace for Writing Directly to Citadel
Writing a Data Break into a Citadel Trace
Writing a Value to a Citadel Trace
Configuring Networked Computers and Applications
Registering Networked Computers
Setting Time Synchronization for Networked Computers
Setting Up Networked Applications
Troubleshooting Communication Problems
Configuring Security Settings for Front Panel Controls and Indicators
Configuring Security Settings for Shared Variables
Disabling Windows Key Combinations
Logging In and Out
Setting a Proxy User Account
Binding Shared Variables to Data Items on OPC Servers that Do Not Support Browsing
Creating a Periodic I/O Server
Creating an On Input Change I/O Server
Creating Modbus I/O Servers
Creating an OPC Client Instance
Committing Shared Variables
Deploying a Shared Variable
Stopping and Starting the Shared Variable Engine
Configuring Shared Variable Properties
Configuring Alarms
Configuring and Reading Shared Variable Properties Programmatically
Editing Shared Variable Configuration Manually
Exporting a Shared Variable Configuration to a Spreadsheet
Importing the Shared Variable Configuration from a Spreadsheet
Initializing Shared Variable Values
Scaling Boolean Shared Variables
Scaling Double Shared Variables
Scaling U32 Bit Field Shared Variables
Setting Shared Variable Deadbands
Creating, Editing, and Monitoring Shared Variables
Creating Shared Variables Programmatically
Generating Shared Variables with the Multiple Variable Editor Window
Monitoring Shared Variable Values