Virtual ViewX Server Prerequisite Components

Virtual ViewX is supported by Geo SCADA Expert 2019 onwards. We strongly recommend that you install the Virtual ViewX server on a different machine to the Geo SCADA Expert server. This is to avoid potential performance issues due to the number of resources that each application uses.

If you do install Geo SCADA Expert and Virtual ViewX on the same machine, both applications must have the same version and build number. This is because the applications share some resources.

The Virtual ViewX server is designed to run on a computer that has certain other software components installed. Some of these prerequisite components are mandatory and others are optional (they are only required if you want to use certain features in Virtual ViewX).

When you install Virtual ViewX, you are only offered those prerequisite components that are not installed already.

Mandatory Prerequisite Components

The mandatory prerequisite components are:

These will be installed automatically if they do not already exist on the machine once you proceed with the installation.

Optional Prerequisite Components

Optional prerequisite components include a check box in the Setup window. You only need select those components that need installing for the features that you want to use in Virtual ViewX.

We recommend that you only install components that you need for your system. Installing components that are not needed on your system takes up disk space unnecessarily. It also increases the attack surface. For improved system security, you should avoid installing or running components that you do not require on your system.

Key:

✓ indicates an optional prerequisite component that you have to select in order to use the feature for which the component is required

The optional prerequisite components comprise:

  1. SAP Crystal Reports runtime engine for .NET Framework (32-bit)
  2. Sentinel System Driver Installer 7.6.1.
Feature that you intend using in Virtual ViewX Prerequisite Component (see the 'Key')
1 2
SAP Crystal Reports 2020 or SAP Crystal Reports 2025

(The prerequisite component enables reports to be displayed in Virtual ViewX.)

(see the note below)		 ✓  

Dongles for licensing (rather than license files, or an AVEVA Enterprise License Server)

   ✓
WARNING

inoperable system or feature

Take care when uninstalling unnecessary prerequisite components.

Always shut down Virtual ViewX first and ensure that no other applications require those components.

Uninstalling prerequisite components that are still required might result in the Virtual ViewX server being unable to provide access to certain features, or being unable to run. It might also affect system security.

Failure to follow these instructions can result in death, serious injury, or equipment damage.

The SAP Crystal Reports runtime components are NOT installed by default. If you intend to install them you must purchase a Crystal Reports runtime license for each server on which these components are to be operational (clients do not need a license to use the runtime components). For servers on which the runtime components are operational, the Crystal Reports runtime license is included with the Geo SCADA Expert Crystal Reports driver license. Please contact your Schneider sales representative for more information.

Install the 64-bit version of the SAP Crystal Reports Runtime Engine on Geo SCADA Expert server installations (to enable generating and exporting of reports). Install the 32-bit version of the SAP Crystal Reports Runtime Engine on ViewX clients and Virtual ViewX servers (to display reports). Please select both if you are to run Server and Clients on the same computer. As the runtime components are prerequisites, you have to select them before you continue further with the Geo SCADA Expert installation (this is handled automatically in the Virtual ViewX installer). For more information about the installation order, see the Installation section of the Geo SCADA Expert Guide to the Crystal Reports Driver.

If you intend using Crystal Reports on your system, you also need to install the Crystal Reports prerequisites and driver on any Permanent Standby servers, in order for the Geo SCADA Expert database to synchronize. However, as the Permanent Standby Geo SCADA Expert servers do not require the Crystal Reports driver to be operational, they do not require a Crystal Reports runtime license. (On the Modules tab on the Server Status Tool of such servers, the Crystal Reports driver will show a red 'No License' state due to the lack of runtime license. This is expected on Permanent Standby servers. On all other servers on systems that use Crystal Reports, the Crystal Reports driver and runtime components must be licensed.)

Further Information

Prerequisites for machines on which Geo SCADA Expert is installed: see Geo SCADA Expert Prerequisite Components.