TwinCAT Management Server

The TwinCAT Management Server enables the central administration of Beckhoff controllers. Software updates, for example, can thus be loaded conveniently from a central place to controllers in the network. Besides the general updating of operating systems, device-specific components (PLC boot project) can also be loaded.

In the first step, Beckhoff controllers in the network are detected automatically via "Device Discovery"; subsequently there is a possibility to assign the detected devices to logical groups. For each group, actions can be defined that can be processed individually by the respective devices.

The following basic actions are available: copying, deleting, renaming of files or folders, carrying out of registry entries, running of applications and restarting of the system.

Building on these basic script-based actions, powerful custom scripts for complex update scenarios can hence be executed. The Management Server offers the possibility to monitor the ongoing processing of the actions and to display the status.

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TwinCAT Management Server	licence for using the TwinCAT Management Server for central administration of Beckhoff CE controls

Product announcement

estimated market release 4th quarter 2008