Does Plant Scada support FTP functionality ?

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Can Plant Scada support FTP Functionality ?

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Since it is no longer built in, you can use a 3rd party tool, or the Windows FTP command line tool. Here's a script I wrote years ago to do an FTP upload using the command line. It's kind of a pain because you have to write a FTP command script to a text file, then run FTP.exe and tell it to run the script, then read back the log file it creates to tell if it was successful. // Function: FtpUpload // // Description: Uploads a file to an FTP server // // Revision: 1.00 4/29/04 Eric Black Original // // Arguments: sURL URL of the FTP server (e.g. ftp.myserver.com or localhost or 192.168.1.1) // sUser FTP server login user name // sPassword FTP server login password // sLocalFile Path and filename to upload (can use path substitution) // sRemotePath FTP server folder to upload to (e.g. Reports\Current). Default is "." for the default folder // // Return Value: 0 if successful, otherwise a Citect error code is returned // // Notes: 1. This is a blocking function // 2. If the upload fails, check [Data]:FtpLog.txt for errors before calling FTPUpload again // or the log will be overwritten. // 3. If FtpUpload returns 1340 (timeout), but the upload eventually finishes successfully you may need to increase // the UPLOAD_TIMEOUT_SEC value (default is 5min) // 4. If this function is called from multiple threads, they will get queued up and only 1 will // run at a time. // 5. The sRemotePath may be case sensitive. It may also require either '/' or '\' to separate folder names. If // the path is invalid the file will upload to the default folder. // 6. The Citect IDC FTP Server does not support receiving files at this time (Citect 5.50) // // Example Command: FTPUpload("ftp.widgets.com", "scadauser", "scadapwd", "[data]:dailyreport.htm", "SCADA/Reports"); // INT FUNCTION FtpUpload(STRING sURL, STRING sUser, STRING sPassword, STRING sLocalFile, STRING sRemotePath = ".") // Local Constants STRING SCRIPT_FILE = "[Data]:FtpScript.txt"; STRING LOG_FILE = "[Data]:FtpLog.txt"; STRING SUCCESS_RESULT_CODE = "226"; INT UPLOAD_TIMEOUT_SEC = 300; // Local variables INT hScriptFile = -1; INT hLogFile = -1; INT hFTPWindow = -1; INT iUploadStartTime; STRING sText; STRING sComSpec; ErrSet(1); IF NOT FileExist(sLocalFile) THEN RETURN 261; // File does not exist END sComSpec = GetEnv("ComSpec"); // Get path & filename of DOS command interpreter EnterCriticalSection("FTPUpload"); // Create a new FTP script file with the specified settings FileDelete(SCRIPT_FILE); hScriptFile = FileOpen(SCRIPT_FILE, "a"); IF hScriptFile = -1 THEN LeaveCriticalSection("FTPUpload"); RETURN 264; // Cannot write to script file END FileWriteLn(hScriptFile, "open " + sURL); FileWriteLn(hScriptFile, sUser); FileWriteLn(hScriptFile, sPassword); FileWriteLn(hScriptFile, "binary"); FileWriteLn(hScriptFile, "cd " + sRemotePath); FileWriteLn(hScriptFile, "put ^"" + PathToStr(sLocalFile) + "^""); FileWriteLn(hScriptFile, "bye"); FileClose(hScriptFile); FileDelete(LOG_FILE); // Run the script by executing ftp.exe -s:"

Does Plant Scada support FTP functionality ?

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