Citect V6.0 Connection with S7 300 CPU

[Mentor]

Dear All,

I have never work with Citect SCADA, and las days i had to convert a PC (where the Citect V6.0 is installed) in Virtual machine.
The SCADA is connected with a SIEMENS PLC S7 315-2DP via Ethernet.

The vistual machine works fine, but the SCADA cannot connect to PLC. I gues there is something in connection settings, But i don´t know where is it.

All computer name and IP address are the same, only the network card name has been changed.
Please help me how to setup the connection between the Citect and PLC.

Thank you and best regards.

[Hennie_Smith]

Hi, Which driver is the Citect setup to use? PSDirect or S7NT? (To check open Citect Explorer, Change to the Project Editor Menu Communications>IODevices

[Mentor]

Hi, Thank you for the comment.

It uses S7NT driver.

[Hennie_Smith]

The S7NT driver uses the Simatic Net software from Siemens to connect to the PLC. Did you check the Simatic Net is still licensed on the virtual machine and configured?

[Mentor]

I have check the Simatic PG/PC interface and it is OK.
I can connect the PLC with SIMATIC MANAGER.
Please check the photos of the settings.
Thank you.

[Hennie_Smith]

Hi, All the info above seems correct but need the NetPRO configuration as well to be sure.

Once the configuration is complete in NetPro, it must be transferred to the PC Station. This can either be done by a file or over the Network. Provided that everything is OK, you should see your configuration from NetPro appear in the Station Configuration Editor on the Local PC.