SIMATIC WinCC V8.
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Powerful, flexible, future-proof!
What’s new in WinCC V8.1?
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WinCC V8.1 – Communication
"REST Connector" becomes "IT Connector“
IT-Connector
Support of MQTT within the IT Connector
➢ Enhanced the “REST Connector” to support also MQTT and
therefore renamed it to “IT Connector”
&
➢ Multiple MQTT brokers with multiple topics can be addressed
➢ Requests for each topic can be triggered cyclically or by a Tag
or Alarm event
➢ Payload can be freely defined and mapped to dynamic WinCC
content with an easy-to-use configurator
➢ Support of different “Quality of Service” modes and
“Last will and testament”
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WinCC V8.1 – Communication
IT-Connector – Placeholders for REST and MQTT
Dynamic parts allow flexible requests
Assign dynamic Tag values or content of Message blocks to
placeholder which can be used in:
➢ Content of payload
➢ Identification of endpoints
➢ Values of queries
➢ Values of headers
➢ Identification of topics
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WinCC V8.1 – Communication
IT-Connector - Optimized support for Server redundancy
Choose how the IT-Connector should behave in
a configuration with redundant WinCC servers
Option that both servers (Master, Standby) are sending in parallel
the REST calls / MQTT topics, or if always only the active master
server is sending the data.
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WinCC V8.1 – Communication
IT-Connector – REST: Mapping of the response to VBS function/VBS code
Handle the response directly in a script to
parse the json string
➢ VBS function: Call a VB script with the body of the REST
server response.
➢ VBS code: Run VB code with the body of the REST server
response.
Access to:
➢ [Link]: Url of Rest Server to identify the call
➢ [Link]: Endpointname to identify the call
➢ [Link]: Status of Response
➢ [Link]: Body of response
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WinCC V8.1 – Communication
REST API: Support of access to the message system
REST interface supports now as well the
message system
➢ Reading configuration data of messages, message classes,
message types, message blocks, and message groups
➢ Reading configuration data of tag limits
➢ Reading Runtime messages from:
➢ Message lists
➢ Short-term archives
➢ Long-term archives
➢ Hit lists
➢ List of messages to be hidden / hidden messages
In the "Alarm Logging" editor, you configure a REST filter that
you use for the methods for reading runtime messages.
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WinCC V8.1 – Communication
REST API: Multiclient Support
REST Client
[Link]
[Link]
REST-API
MULTI MULTI
… Access to multiple WinCC server stations via
one central REST Gateway
➢ Send the REST requests to the Multiclient together with the
WinCC dedicated Serverprefix
Server (Pairs) SERVER1 SERVER2
Tag_1 Tag_2
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