Issue
Will we be able to use our TAC Workbench (Tech Laptop) to connect to the Honeywell Supervisor?
Environment
I/A Series G3 (all versions)
Cause
The NiCS statement within the license controls the sharing of data and usage of Workbench on a G3 (AX) platform.
Resolution
The answer depends upon the NiCS statement within the Honeywell Supervisor license. If the Honeywell license accept.wb.in statement is open, the TAC brand Workbench would be able to connect and engineer. Based on past experience, the accept.wb.in statement is typically set to webs and can only be accessed by a Honeywell licensed Workbench.
The NiCS statement for the ENC is setup to prevent connection by a non-TAC brand Workbench. The statements that control sharing of data (accept.station.in and accept.station.out) have always been open. Unfortunately prior to G3 version 3.6, the Niagara driver point discovery process utilized some Workbench functionality to perform the connection and use basically defeating the main purpose of the NiCS statement. This meant that the points needed to be added manually.
The software was corrected in 3.6 to allow discovering of points regardless of the NiCS accept.wb.in statement. The points will be able to be discovered with the Honeywell Supervisor as long as G3 version 3.6 or higher is being used.