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Power Generation Portal

Procedure for building and importing


AC800M Tag database

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1. Run the .exe called PGPProjectGuid.exe. This file can be found at


C:\Program Files\ABB Industrial IT\Power Generation Portal\bin.

2. As soon as the executable file is run, a .xml file and a text file is created in the same
folder.
3. Copy the ProjectGuids.xml file which was created in the config folder of PGP.
C:\Program Files\ABB Industrial IT\Power Generation Portal\Ac800m\config.

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4. Now get back to C:\Program Files\ABB Industrial IT\Power Generation


Portal\bin and run the file AC800Mbuilder.exe. This is done to build the tag
database of your AC800M project.

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In the following window which appears, select your Control Builder version.

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Now click on the Open CBM pro project Button.

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Select your project from the window that appears and click OK

Now to build the tag database, the builder opens the Control Builder M automatically.

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In the following window select standard and click OK. This only appears for the first
time.

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In the window above select the Applications from the tree for which you want to build the
Tag database and click on Create the PGP DataBases button.

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The maximum tag name length should be 20 characters. If it is beyond 20, the builder
will ignore those tags. So be sure all tag names are below 20 Char before start the
builder.

Now click on the Build the PGP Databases button and click Close
5. The database has been built and it can be found in C:\Program Files\ABB
Industrial IT\Power Generation Portal\config\tag

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6. Now this .DBF file can be imported as it is into PGP.


7. Until now all the steps have been explained under the assumption that both the OPC
Server for AC800M and PGP Server reside in the same machine.

For the remote OPC server to communicate with the client,


DCOM security settings have to be configured in the
remote OPC server.
In the start menu type dcomcnfg. Under Component Services Computer My
Computer, select DCOM Config.

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Set the Authentication level to none.

Under Security Tab,


Goto Launch and Activation Permissions and select Customize and add
Everyone. Do the same for Access permissions and Configuration
Permissio
ns.
If there are multiple remote OPC servers, the above mentioned two steps
have to be done in each of them.

Now when you start PGP, an OPC instance will be created in the registry for
each of the remote OPC servers. This can be found in Registry.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE ABB Power Generation
Portal APPS OPC .

When PGP starts, the OPC monitor utility is started automatically. In the OPC
monitor window you can find all the OPC servers listed. It also shows whether
they are connected or in standby mode.
Please ensure OPCEnum service is running. If not, goto start menu and
type services.msc. Look for OPCEnum service and start it.
Note: The Drive path(C:\) mentioned in this document has to be replaced
with the drive path where PGP is installed.

Communication through OPC


Start the OPC Server for AC800M and add the controllers both in Data Access and
Alarm and Event. If the connection has not been established properly, a red circle
with a cross mark appears as shown below.

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One OPC server can handle only 30000 opc items. Hence if more than 30000 OPC
items have to be communicated with PGP, more than 1 OPC servers have to be
used.
The OPC items that are not needed in HMI can be hidden using the Dataprocessor
file present in C:\Program Files\ABB Industrial IT\Power Generation
Portal\config\DataProcessor.

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