The ArchestrAnaut

If you read our first post in the series( http://archestranaut.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/regular-expressions-for-fun-and-profit-part-1-of-2/) you are no doubt excited about the world of possibilities you open up when you combine Archestra with Regular Expressions.   In this post we’ll look at a real world example that we use with our clients to solve real world issues.

Keeping time in System Platform is absolutely critical.  When I work with a client that is having connectivity and deployment issues this is one of the first areas I look at.  We’ve found that using standard NTP works just fine (except on your Historian) as far as an accuracy level but what if something happens and you start drifting?  How do you know you are drifting.  I guess you could do some fancy math in the historian while historizing timestamps on platforms but that gets messy.  Let’s put our new found skills to work.

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Andy & I have always been fairly frustrated with the Wonderware Alarm Logger service.  It almost seems like an afterthought for System Platform (just look at the service name:  New_AlarmLogger).  Perhaps the most frustrating part is trying to integrate it into a system with redundant App Servers.  To the developers:  please integrate this into the System Platform in a future release.

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