Installation and Upgrade Guide Owner's manual

Publication 1757-IN040B-EN-P - March 2002
Table of Contents vii
Installing and connecting Redundant
Chassis Pair (RCP) Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-30
Updating Firmware Revision Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-31
Creating a Redundant 1757-PLX52 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-31
Installing Knowledge Builder on a
Non-ProcessLogix System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-32
Removing Knowledge Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-32
Installing Service Pack 2 for Windows 2000. . . . . . . . . . 8-33
Installing Internet Explorer 5.5 SP1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-33
Installing MDAC2.5 SP1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-33
Installing Knowledge Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-34
Chapter 9
PC Performance for ProcessLogix
Systems
ProcessLogix Performance Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-3
PC Qualification/Installation Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-3
Redundant Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4
Server Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4
Multi-User/Location Control Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
Multiple Clients/Stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
Integrated Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
Operating System Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
Service/Kernel Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
Disk Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8
File System Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8
File System Defragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-10
Defragmenting the Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-10
Memory and Swapfile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-11
Client/Station Memory Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-13
Servers with 128 MB of Physical RAM or Less.. . . . . . . . 9-13
Servers with 256 MB of Physical RAM or More.. . . . . . . 9-13
Adjusting Swapfile Size on Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . 9-14
Network Optimization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-15
Management of Traffic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-15
Benefits from other Network Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-17
System Usage 9-17
Topology Related Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-18
Physical Location of the Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-18
Physical location of the Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-19
Service Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-19
Network Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-19