InTouch Unlimited Professional - Usage

Hi Peter, so the Intouch unlimited works as follows:

You will need a Tag server that runs as console session, this can also be an independent machine/ VM

The tag server connects to PLC I/O and does the IO processing, lets call this Intouch project 1.

You will need to create another project , lets call it intouch project 2, this Intocuh project will have remote reference to tags in Intouch project 1 ( and no direct I/O tags )

This Intouch project 2 needs to run on Windows server and have RDS Session licenses.

Then the thin clients will need to point at this RDS server running project 2 and you can obtain unlimited ( practical max 40 sessions ) from this project 2.

To make any changes in a project, you will need to make a change in project 1 and project 2 ( which is insane )

I would like this whole process to be a lot more simpler than what it is and the unimited license ( Intouch professional ) forcing RDS where Intouch is amazing as standalone clients in another big pain point

Hi Peter, so the Intouch unlimited works as follows:

You will need a Tag server that runs as console session, this can also be an independent machine/ VM

The tag server connects to PLC I/O and does the IO processing, lets call this Intouch project 1.

You will need to create another project , lets call it intouch project 2, this Intocuh project will have remote reference to tags in Intouch project 1 ( and no direct I/O tags )

This Intouch project 2 needs to run on Windows server and have RDS Session licenses.

Then the thin clients will need to point at this RDS server running project 2 and you can obtain unlimited ( practical max 40 sessions ) from this project 2.

To make any changes in a project, you will need to make a change in project 1 and project 2 ( which is insane )

I would like this whole process to be a lot more simpler than what it is and the unimited license ( Intouch professional ) forcing RDS where Intouch is amazing as standalone clients in another big pain point

Hi Rainer,

That's only the way the tag server works. But it's not the way InTouch Unlimited has to work.

With InTouch Unlimited it's possible to have these "second" applications access whatever they want, not only the Tag Server and that's great for many customers. They do access the I/O source of the Terminal Server and do whatever they want.

That's related to the setting "InTouchView application" which can't be used with IT Unlimited otherwise the licenses won't work.

But yes, in a tag server application setup it's cumbersome to take care of two projects.

Hi Peter, you are right but there are several technical challenges if the second application has to acces whatever it wants. Intouch is a single threaded application for it's view.exe , so that means for it to access I/O , do scripting and present graphics it all happens in a single core CPU EVEN though your hardware maybe top of the line multi-core system. That's the main reason for two projects and it's a fundamental core problem that AVEVA is solving hopefully in new releases.

We need a fast, multi-threaded Intocuh system with appropriate licensing.