At our treatment plant we have 5 Schneider Electric Trio JR Radios. We recently had an issue with communications, but got the issue resolved. I am wanting to implement a few things on VTScada to give our operators a graphic should there ever be any kind of problems with a drop of plant wide communications. My only concern is that I do not have much experience when setting up or configuring the SNMP driver tags with VTScada. I'm also not sure how to go about setting up the port tags either. My idea is to create communication uplink indicators on VTScada. You'd have a green light for "good" and red light for "bad" along with some graphics. In this instance I know I have a Trio Radio connected to our SCADA server. I can check for communications via the embedded web server, but would like to pull information from the Trio Radio to VTScada. Could someone show me examples so that I can learn how to properly configure these SNMP driver tags. I was a bit worried on the security side of things that I would somehow open holes.

@ArghDave

This is exactly what I have just spent 5 hours trying to do... Did you ever get it working?
Just looking to get a red/green status graphic for our PLC networking switches.

I've looked at the user guide - nothing on the SNMP driver.

I've looked at the Academy - nothing on configuring or using the SNMP driver.

I can see the data I need via a third party MIB browser, but can't get VTScada to read the data, just a '?' in the Value area at all times.

Some help getting SNMP working via the tag browser would be very much apricated.

Hey all,

Most of what you need to set this up and what to expect with a proper mibs file should be well explained in the links below:

SNMP Driver: https://www.vtscada.com/help/Content/D_Tags/Dev_SNMPDriver.htm

SNMP Driver Addressing: https://www.vtscada.com/help/Content/D_Tags/Dev_SNMPAddressing.htm

Note that if there is a web server for your device, you could check to see if the server has a url to create a JSON response with key:value pairs to the data available. If so, you could use the JSON/XML driver to query that.

@beno
No, I never was. I'm glad you found the link though. I hope Dave was able to help you.