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Downloading the Visual Designer Project
Windows Standard Embedded 7 User’s Guide for Eaton XP-503 with Visual Designer
MN031001EN August 2014 www.eaton.com
Downloading the Visual Designer Project
Setting the XP-503’s IP Address
To download the Visual Designer project to the XP-503
over Ethernet, you will first need to establish an Ethernet
connection to the XP-503 unit. This can be done many
ways from a simple point-to-point connection with a Cat 5
crossover cable or by using an Ethernet hub, switch, or
router. Note that some PC’s Ethernet ports will autosense
the transmit/receive lines and provide internal crossover
capability. If your PC has this feature, you can use a standard
Cat 5 patch cable to connect to the XP-503. The XP-503’s
two Ethernet ports are configured at the factory for dynamic
IP addresses (DHCP). In most applications, the XP-503’s IP
address will be set to a static value. If you are unsure of how
or what to set the XP-503’s IP address, please consult your
local IT support personnel. Once you know the IP address of
the XP unit, take the following steps:
1. Open Control Panel with
Start > Control Panel
and then
double click to open the Network Connections dialog.
2. Double-click on one of the Local Area Connection
icons and scroll down in the connection items list to
select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and then click on the
Properties button.
3. Select the radio button labeled “Use the following IP
Address:” and then type in the IP address and subnet
mask (e.g., 10.155.0.12 and 255.255.255.0) and click OK.
4. Click OK to close the Local Area Connection Properties
dialog and then close the Network Connections window.
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There are two Ethernet ports on the XP unit. The first
one is physically located next to the DVI port (closest
to the 24 Vdc power connector) and is listed as Local
Area Connection 1. The other is listed as Local Area
Connection 2. Both are 10/100/1000Base-T ports.
Downloading to the XP-503 via Ethernet
The following instructions on downloading via Ethernet
or USB memory device direct you to locate the Visual
Designer project on the protected “C” drive of the XP
unit. Because any changes to that drive are only stored
temporarily in volatile DRAM until a Protect Mode Save
action is taken (see section on Protect Mode Save earlier
in this document), it is important that you remember to do
this with every change made to the project. Furthermore, by
default, all archiving of Trends, Alarms, or Events goes to the
HST and Alarm sub-folders of the project. It is critical that a
project that is performing these archiving functions redirect
the archiving to either the D drive or any other permanent
memory resource, either local or on a network. Otherwise
the data will not be archived and instead be re-directed to
volatile DRAM, which potentially could fill up and stop the
Windows operating system. The following is an example of
the VB Script commands that will redirect both Trend and
Alarm/Event archiving to the D drive. In this example, it
directs the archiving to folders that would need to first be
created manually on the D drive because this command will
not create directories when executed. These commands
must be placed in the Startup Script under the Tasks tab of
Project Explorer in the Scripts folder, which executes once
on startup of the project.
$SetAppHstPath(“D:\Data\Trends”)
$SetAppAlarmPath(“D:\Data\Alarms”)
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The XP-503 includes a utility called
Junction.exe
that
automatically sets the C:\Cfg\APPL\HST and ALARM
folders to write instead to the D:\Data\TRENDS
and ALARMS folders negating the need for these
commands in the application as long as the user
loads the project to the default
Ce:\Cfg\APPL
folder
as instructed below.
Once you have an Ethernet connection established between
your development PC and the XP-503 unit, make sure that
the Remote Agent that opens by default at XP’s startup
is running. If it was shut down manually, you can restart
the Remote Agent with
Start > All Programs > Eaton >
Visual Designer vX.Y> Remote Agent
. Then open your
Visual Designer project on your PC and click on the Connect
button on the Home tab of the Ribbon under the Remote
Management Group. In the Network IP property, type in the
IP address of the XP-503 as shown below and click on the
Connect button.
If your Ethernet connection is configured correctly, the
Status property will change to show “Connected to Visual
Designer
vX.Y
” as shown below.
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