DeltaV Alarming

[roydm]

Hi,
I have an older DeltaV system (about 10Y) running on Windows NT. The system will be monitoring after hours and I need it to dial up if it goes into alarm. Any suggestions on how to do this would be much appreciated.
I also need to back-up historical data. On a previous machine I did this to a CD burner but this seems very time consuming.
Note: The NT PC is connected to the internet. I'm told that NT will not support a memory stick.

Thanks in advance.

Roy


and need it to dial up

 

[ScottyUK]

Roy,

For backups on our WDPF control system we installed a mid-range HP/Compaq server with a 6x 300GB RAID and a high capacity tape drive. A scheduled backup transfers historical data to the server over the network each night, then to tape each month for off-site archiving. For us the most important data is the historical data for the machine: the operating system, system environment and the applications can be rebuilt given enough effort - a lot of effort, having done it a couple of times - but the history is irreplaceable. The system was supplied with an HP2600 magneto-optical data corruptor for backups, a pretty hopeless device to be charitable.

The WDPF system itself is running on Solaris 2.5.1 for sparc and the server is running Solaris 10 for i86, but I don't see much problem doing something similar with Windows. Run the backup process from the server and mount the remote systems to the server. I seem to remember NT4 doesn't deal with massive disks but an NT disk should mount ok to a machine running a later O/S.

Is our solution effective? So far we've lost one disk in the RAID which didn't hurt us much, except in the wallet, and one historian disk which would have been pretty bad if we hadn't had a backup available. We were back up and running normally within a couple of hours, most of which was transferring data across the network.


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[JLSeagull]

Plenty of telephone or email callout systems exist. These are common for semi-attended processing facilities as well as computer server facilities. I did a quick search and found "Sensaphone". Within that brand there are several models including a SCADA model. Others with operating companies may be able to recommend a reliable model for such products that they use.

 

[roydm]

ScottyUK, JLSegull,
Thanks for the feedback.
I should have mentioned that the system is very small only two racks with one PC for engineering/operating to monitor a prototype skid. It's connected to the internet for remote access so I thought there might be an easy way to send text messages without additional hardware. The PC has some form of disc imaging but I need an easy way to copy operating data to Excel format. A memory stick would be great but NT doesn't support that. Perhaps some way via the internet?
Regards
Roy