ABB 800xA Swapping Active And Standby PLC Connect Server

ABB 800xA Infi90 Swapping Active And Standby PLC Connect Server

ABB 800xA Infi90 Swapping Active And Standby PLC Connect Server

You have to be in Service Structure to do this.

Xybernetics ABB 800xA : Swapping Active And Standby PLC Connect Server

 

Expand Services->Softpoint Server. Then expand the PLC Connect Service Group you want to do the swap with.
We will be using “SG_PLC_Net2” service group for your example.

Xybernetics ABB 800xA : Swapping Active And Standby PLC Connect Server

 

Uncheck the “Enable” checkbox and click the “Apply” button to stop polling from the PLC Connect server TEST-PLC-88.
After a while the current status will change from “Service” to “Undefined” (see image below). Once that happens, you can restart/power cycle that PLC connect server (TEST-PLC-88).
Note that when we perform this PLC Connect server swap, there will be no outage on the poll and operations will not see any outage in their graphics.

Xybernetics ABB 800xA : Swapping Active And Standby PLC Connect Server

 

Click on the redundant node server TEST-PLC_89 (right below it). Notice that it changes its current status from “Standby to “Service”. Which means that the DCS is polling though this server now.

Xybernetics ABB 800xA : Swapping Active And Standby PLC Connect Server

 

Once the TEST-PLC-88 PLC connect server is restarted, check the “Enable” checkbox. It will start to synchronize with the active PLC connect server TEST-PLC-89. When you bring the PLC Connection up from “Undefined”, it goes from Undefined -> Initialise – > Ready -> Synchronizing -> Standby.

Xybernetics ABB 800xA : Swapping Active And Standby PLC Connect Server

 

Once the synchronization is done, TEST-PLC-88 will be in standby mode.