Allen-Bradley Logix 5000 controller operation properties for disaster recovery and device monitor

Specify default disaster recovery schedule settings for Allen-Bradley Logix 5000 controllers in

Tools > Options

.

Specify the settings of a particular Allen-Bradley Logix 5000 controller asset in an existing schedule on the

Schedules

tab. Changes to the settings within a schedule override the default settings for that instance.

(Only available when editing an existing schedule, not when setting defaults.) This field specifies the master file to be used in Disaster Recovery operations. Files are kept in Archive where several versions of the same file may be stored. By default, Disaster Recovery operations use the pinned version of the specified file or, if no version has been pinned, the most recent version of the device's Configuration Data file. If you want to specify another version for the master file, click within this field and then click . Before you can edit this field, the device must have its Configuration Data defined in the device's properties.

This defaults to

False

. If set to

True

, when differences are detected this uploads the current file from the physical asset to Archive and makes that version the master file for the asset.

This option determines which differences are included in the Backup and Compare report. Set this option to

True

to only include those differences found since the last report was run. Set this option to

False

to include all differences found between the master file in the FactoryTalk AssetCentre Archive and the file in the device. To set this option to

True

, you must select

Promote New Upload to Master

(above).

When setting

Report Incremental Differences

as

True

, the latest file with

Incremental Checkpoint

label in the archive will be compared as master file when running Disaster and Recovery Schedule.

To avoid this problem, you can do the following steps:

When set to

True

, each change reported by the controller is copied to an Audit Log entry while the schedule is running. When set to

False

, no audit log entries are created.

When set to

False

, FactoryTalk AssetCentre allows Logix 5000 to perform a correlation to determine if the version of the controller configuration file stored in the FactoryTalk AssetCentre Archive and the version of the file in the physical controller match to a sufficient extent as determined by Logix Designer. If the correlation determines that the files are an exact match with the exception of tag data values, which are not considered, the backup operation or backup and compare operation will not take place. If the correlation determines there are program changes, for example, changes to ladder logic, the operation will take place and changes to the file will be backed up in Archive. During a backup and compare operation, no tag data value differences will be found during the comparison. This is because changes to tag value data are not retrieved from a controller during correlation. Select

True

to always have the backup operation or backup and compare operation take place.

To set the types of information you want to compare to the master file stored in the FactoryTalk AssetCentre Archive, click in the field,and then click . Complete the

Compare Options

dialog box.

To specify which tags you want to compare, click in the field, and then click the browse button . This opens the

Tag Filter

dialog box from the Logix Designer Compare Tool. Use this dialog box to select the tags that you want to compare.

The email addresses separated by semicolons (;) to which notification will be sent if the compare finds differences between the master file for the asset stored in the FactoryTalk AssetCentre Archive and the configuration of the physical asset.

The email addresses separated by semicolons (;) to which notification will be sent when the operation completes for the asset. If a Backup and Compare schedule completes without differences, an email is sent to this list. If it completes with differences, an email is sent to the

Event Compare Differences Detected

list, not this list.

The email addresses separated by semicolons (;) to which notification will be sent when the operation fails. For disaster recovery schedules, this message is sent when the backup or backup and compare operation fails to complete. For Device Monitor, this message is sent when communication to the controller is lost and the status shows

Communication error

.

This defaults to

False

. Select

True

to attach a report of differences to the email if the backup and compare schedule finds differences between the asset's master file stored in the FactoryTalk AssetCentre Archive and the configuration of the physical asset.

This defaults to

False

. Select

True

to attach a report to the email regarding whether or not the backup and compare event completed successfully.