ThinClient to Display FT Optix Runtime

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Description
Setting up a ThinClient Panel PC terminal pointing to an ASEM 6300B Box PC with FactoryTalk Optix runtime.

We will configure the ThinManager server step by step, in order to make connecting a terminal as easy as plug and play. Thinclient has no HHD, it only has RAM. You can also integrate with InfluxDB in order to store machine or process data.

Contributed by Xavier Florensa – YouTube – LinkedIn – GitHub

Transcript
(00:01) hi everybody in this video I will show you how to set up Thin Client with Factory talk Optics first of all let me PLU the CLE Cent now and while it’s starting I will explain you this setup here on the left we have our big box PC it’s an ASM 6300 or it’s running a server so thin manager we have a laptop with the remote desktop to show what’s Happening we can even start uh th manager here okay where we see that we have nothing on the terminal as a as and here we have our th manager that it’s
(01:10) starting and we have also a runtime of factory talk Optics on the server on the box PC and as soon as you start your think lion not yet configured on the th manager since we see here we have nothing then you can start creating new terminal and we have to continue on the thin manager to configure the terminal let’s create new terminal here but before connecting your thing client to your thing manager you have to set up pxc you can connect to your them manager through remote desktop
(02:20) connection you log in and here we have our server where we can open we have to check here first of all you have this interface network interface pointing to your server address if you don’t see this you will not be able to configure the think lion then also you have to change the status of PX server you have to enable it okay change some use this one option not using a standard dhp server because in this case it will be the thing manager who will give an IP address to the
(03:26) client okay in arp in you have to set up uh IP address range in order to point which one of the these will be given to the think lion and that’s all okay it is also important to change the port you’re using on the server this way you can advance with next on most of the options you should disable this one you should the server address here and let’s give next for several times and finally we arrive here this is the port of th manager server it should be not the same as
(04:32) BNC in BNC by default you’re using 59 100 so you have to change whether here or on the other side and this is all concerning your setup you can disable this and we are not going to use it and finish that’s all and then we see this message so use the manager to configure terminal server we see here on the te manager our screen so once you plug your think Lon to your server you will have to continue configuring the client on the server and you will see such screens so you have to just accept most of the default options like this
(05:39) one next we have a name for [Music] example the name of the thing client we do next we see that here we have already a number detected from the terminal let’s choose um Alan Bradley and unknown 6,300 and just if next several times like this uh we just add what do we want to see on the client this is the tight VNC okay and nothing more else we leave this
(06:45) blank and I want to leave only this one this the server and that’s all now if we look here this is negotiating and after some time it will now it’s rebooting docent is repoting as soon as it reports you will see this grain we see here that we have the BNC typ BNC server running on this sport 59 100 we go back to our the C manager is still
(07:55) starting I can show you other things here you have apart from terminals here you have our local this is the address of the vmc server in the port and here we see the content we can share per think Lon like BNC you could also sh Docker containers PR desktop etc etc camera and so looks like like the yes now we have our think lion already set up and and running again with this PR point this is a laptop session with think L here we could even see this is our think lion
(09:05) okay now the system is reboting since our client is already configured as you can see here we have already our ASM 63 100 terminal here we can see that now this is rebooting but already set up once the theme client starts working we will see our VNC so the our desktop through VNC and everything you have running on the server and the M 63 100 PC box you will have on your screen of the
(10:11) client yes here we are with our client showing the server content as you can see here now the terminal as is in green and the ti dbn C has a green point also so we could start working here let’s log in and as soon as we lock we see the server on our screen so here we can move on our screen and for instance show whatever we have like Factory talk Optics
(11:14) running here so you already have it Optics over think lion we’ll show you a little bit more so we see here a red line on the tank on the boiler and this is due through the fact that this is controlled by opcua so let’s start an opcua server giving those values this is the unified automation this one one now it started and as soon as it started you start with the life values and you could even fill and so on but be careful before starting those
(12:22) valves you have to start the PLC we have a PLC emulated with logic Echo here let it in okay but should be started this is in IP address Local Host and let’s go to Studio 5000 to start to make the PLC and run let’s put the PLC in run mode okay and as soon as it starts we will have this available to fill like this now you can fill and empty the tank okay here you can also start uh in Flex
(13:27) DB and inject data from the PLC to influx DB and that’s all concerning this theme manager setup I hope you enjoy thank you very much

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