Hi there,
I am a bit confused on what is required to connect to get CTAPI working.
Our current architecture is 2 x Aveva Plant SCADA 2023 servers running in redundancy, a third remote computer running as a client to access the primary and secondary.
We want a fourth computer to access Trend Data from the Plant SCADA servers using CTAPI.
My current understanding is for the fourth computer to connect remotely via CTAPI we need .net framework installed and the visual c++ redistributable’s (2017 x86 and x64). But what are the other requirements, I have been attempting to use https://github.com/estradege/citect but keep getting an error when trying to import the CTAPI .DLL’s.
I understand the requirement for the servers to have the the INI file to include [CtAPI]Remote = 1
but is there further setup required on the servers? Does PCS framework need to be installed? Does the System Management Controller need to be configured as well? If anyone has completed any CTAPI projects running on a remote computer and can point me in the right direction that will be extremely helpful. The ideal configuration is a remote application that can access and download trend files, but that is probably why the Aveva Historian was created, I want to do this myself to learn how to get these CTAPI functions running on a remote computer
Thanks in advanced!
Jason