Citect 2018 – Upgrading to Citect SCADA 2018 PDF

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In Citect 2018 Upgrade Guide, or Citect SCADA 2018 Manual PDF, the aim is to centralize all sources of information in relation to the upgrade process and pathways to Citect SCADA 2018, from versions as early as CitectSCADA 5.21. It is always recommended to keep your software applications updated to the latest version. There are general advantages of being on the latest release of Citect SCADA, as well as the new functionality in Citect SCADA 2018. Depending on your starting version, there will be a lot of features that might be new to you.

Table of Contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY – 4

INTRODUCTION: CITECT 2018 – 4

BENEFITS OF UPGRADING – 4

WHY UPGRADE? – 4

WHAT’S NEW IN CITECT SCADA 2018 – 5

PLANNING YOUR UPGRADE – 5

UPGRADE PATH – 5

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS – 6

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS – 10

FILE INVENTORY – 11

OFFLINE UPGRADE PROCESS – 14

BACKUP YOUR CURRENT PROJECT AND RELEVANT FILES – 14

UPGRADE YOUR LICENSES – 15

PLAN YOUR UPGRADE PATH – 15

UNINSTALL YOUR CURRENT SCADA VERSION – 16

RESTORE YOUR PROJECT – 16

UPGRADE YOUR PROJECT – 16

MIGRATE YOUR PROJECT – 17

MERGE YOUR .INI FILE – 19

COMPILE YOUR PROJECT – 20

RUN THE COMPUTER SETUP WIZARD – 21

RESTORE RUNTIME FILES – 21

RESTORE HISTORICAL DATA FILES – 21

RUN YOUR PROJECT – 22

INSTALL CITECT SCADA 2018 – 22

TROUBLESHOOTING OFFLINE UPGRADE – 23

CANNOT UPGRADE LICENSE KEY – 23

COMPILER ERRORS AND WARNINGS THAT ARE NOT RELATED TO DEPRECATED FUNCTIONS – 23

ONLINE UPGRADE PROCESS – 24

ONLINE UPGRADE STEPS: 7.20 TO CITECT SCADA 2018 – 25

ONLINE UPGRADE STEPS: 7.40 SP1 TO CITECT SCADA 2018 – 27

UPGRADING FROM V2015 – 28

7.3.1. Special Considerations: 2015 SP1 Patch 6 to Citect SCADA 2018 – 29

UPGRADING FROM V2016 – 29

TROUBLESHOOTING ONLINE UPGRADE – 29

REFERENCE TO KNOWLEDGE BASE ARTICLES – 32

Excerpts

“Most updates and fixes have been developed for Citect SCADA 2018. Versions 7.20, 7.30 and 7.40 have matured which means neither Service packs nor fixes are developed for versions in the mature phase and limited support will be provided. For more information on this, please check Citect SCADA’s Support Lifecycle.” – Page 4

“ … make sure your project runs and works properly on Citect SCADA 2018 before deploying to production and starting the online upgrade. If your project is complex or you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.20 SP4, it is strongly recommended that you have a test environment, as the offline upgrade could be complex and could involve a long server downtime if done on your production system.” – Page 24

“Citect SCADA v2018 server will synchronize its alarm database with the running v2016 server. You need to wait for the synchronization process to finish, and this will depend on the size of your alarm database. The synchronization information is available from the main kernel window of the Alarm Process as well as the syslog.” – Page 29