List of applications, tools, and services

Several applications, tools and services are installed as part of PcVue installation. Some of the tools require PcVue to be running whereas others are standalone. All can be accessed from the Tools folder in the PcVue Program Group, some have a shortcut on the desktop.

This topic contains a brief description of the tools, applications, and services and where to find help about them.

Main application

Application

Help book or topic

Description

PcVue

Reference architectures

The main application for a standalone station, a client station, a data acquisition server, an Historical data server or a Web backend server.

It corresponds to the process sv32.exe and can run as a desktop application or as a service depending on the type of station and architecture.

Tools for administrators

Tool	Help book or topic	Description
Component Registration	Operating system related considerations	A tool used to register the PcVue components with Windows. If you have more than one version of PcVue installed on the same computer host, you must run this tool manually to register the components of a version before launching it. This tool can only be used when PcVue is stopped.
Core Management Console	Overview of running PcVue as a Windows service	A tool used to manage PcVue deployment. It enables you to switch from deployment as a Desktop Application to deployment as a Windows Service. It includes dialogs for configuring the startup arguments and other settings related to the deployment mode, as well as the ability to monitor PcVue running processes. This tool can be used with or without PcVue running. If running, only the monitoring tools can be used.
Host Deployment Console	Host Deployment Console	A tool used to manage the deployment of a project on computer hosts where an instance of PcVue needs to run. It can also be used to migrate a project to the current version of the product.
Web Deployment Console	Web Deployment Console	A tool used to manage the deployment of the PcVue web services hosted in Microsoft IIS.
svcmd	svcmd CLI reference	A tool to manage secure keys, project protection, central project management, and host protection.
ProjectUtility	ProjectUtility CLI reference	A tool to manage migration of a project from one version of PcVue to a newer one.
Log Monitor	Log Monitor	A tool to display logged messages from PcVue. It enables users to monitor PcVue activity and identify normal and erroneous operation. This tool can be used with or without PcVue running.
View Effective Permissions	Operating system related considerations	A tool to display the effective Windows' permissions of the current user on files and folders (ACL). It is useful to troubleshoot file and folder access issues. This tool can be used with or without PcVue running.

The use of these tools requires Administrator privileges except the View Effective Permission utility, designed to be run under the identity for whom you need to test permissions.

Running the Component Registration Utility resets all system settings associated with PcVue processes to their installation defaults. This includes:

Settings associated with the SV Core Daemon, SV DbConnect, SV Core Session Host and SV Core Data Isolation services: Startup type, Recovery mode, Service account, Service dependencies.
Configuration of the 3 DCOM applications associated with PcVue.

We recommend you document these settings as part of your project documentation so you can set them again each time you update the PcVue version, replace a computer or in any other situation requiring that you run the Component Registration Utility.

Tools for configuration and diagnosis

Tool	Help book or topic	Description
Application Architect	Application Architect	A tool used to configure the PcVue application (project) by defining and instantiating templates (application modeling) representing real world objects from the process to be supervised. This tool can only be used with PcVue running.
Application Explorer	Application Explorer	A tool used to configure and troubleshoot the PcVue application. It is a Windows Explorer style configuration tool. This tool can only be used with PcVue running.
License Utility	None	A tool to manage the PcVue license: Get detailed information about the license, manage updates and upgrades. This tool can be used on a standalone PC where PcVue is not installed.
Map Cache Creator	Using the map cache creator	A tool used to download maps from the Internet and store them locally for use by the Map Control. This tool can be used with or without PcVue running.
Smart Generator	Smart Generator	A tool for generating the PcVue project configuration importing configuration elements in mass according to configuration repositories from third party software such as PLC programming packages or generic XML files. This tool can only be used with PcVue running
Smart bots manager	Smart bots manager	A tool to configure Smart bots blueprints. This tool can only be used with PcVue running.

Other tools

Tool

Help book or topic

Description

Database Import

Database Import tool

A tool used to import data in mass to HDS databases.

This tool can be used with or without PcVue running.

Database Manager

Database Manager tool

A tool used to view SQL Server database and table. It allows the configuration of the HDS replication.