G2 Optegrity
Version 5.1 Rev. 1
Readme

• What is Optegrity

• System Requirements

• Windows Operating Systems Considerations

• Known Issues

• What's in this Release?

• Online Documentation

• Examples

• Upgrading SymCure Applications

• Gensym Customer Support

Optegrity is an extensible software platform that delivers applications for abnormal condition management for the process manufacturing industry. Optegrity applications ensure sustained operational performance and continuous availability of production assets. Optegrity applications perform advanced detection of abnormal process conditions that left undetected can disrupt productivity and weaken product quality and profits.

Optegrity is a powerful application platform for OEMs, value-added-resellers (VARs), system integrators (SIs), and consultants. Combined with existing control systems, data historians, and databases, Optegrity applications work in real time to:

• Proactively monitor process conditions to avoid or minimize disruptions.

• Analyze, filter, and correlate alarms to speed up operator responses.

• Rapidly isolate the root cause of problems to accelerate resolution.

• Guide operators through recovery to enhance safety levels.

• Provide expert guidance so that operators of all skill levels can effectively respond to problems.

• Predict the impact of process disruptions so operators can prioritize actions.

Optegrity consists of a broad set of capabilities for meeting the wide-ranging needs of Abnormal Condition Management, covering the whole life cycle of projects from modeling to validation and deployment. Optegrity monitors and evaluates, in real time, process conditions received from a DCS, provides advisory messages, extensive diagnostics, and root cause analysis capabilities. Fault models that leverage the reasoning over process maps reduce the number of operator alarms significantly and isolate the root cause(s) of problems.

Domain experts such as process engineers can graphically model and deploy the logic used to monitor, diagnose, and control the process conditions. Logging and replay capabilities enable domain experts to validate their logic before deployment or replay historical data for in depth analysis of specific situations. Optegrity also enables domain experts to build libraries of reusable intelligent process objects that include a generic formalization of event detection and fault models.

Optegrity is a client/server, multi-user environment, enabling multiple users to collaborate during the development and deployment phases of a project. Multiple operators can interact with the server simultaneously to monitor and diagnose in real time the state of the process condition.

To use Optegrity, you need:

• Windows XP Pro, 2003, or 2000.

• Pentium processor (at least 1 GHz Pentium 4 processor recommended for development).

• 1 GB memory.

• 1 GB disk space, including documentation.

• 14.1" TFT display for laptops or 17" desktop monitor with a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768

• TCP/IP protocol installed and configured

• 10 Mbps local area network (LAN) connected to the server

Optegrity installation differs depending on the Windows operating system:

• For Windows, the installation differs depending on your privileges when you install the product. If you are installing with administrative privileges, the system, without prompting, installs for all users. To install as the current user, temporarily remove your administrative status.

• For Windows XP, 2003, and 2000, you must use administrator privileges to install. If you do not, the system generates the error, "Setup failed to launch install engine: Class not registered."

• For Windows XP, 2003, and 2000, after installation, a user without administrator privileges cannot run Optegrity until the file permissions on the installed files have been changed. The recommended way to do this is to have the administrator follow these steps after installation:

  1. Choose Properties on the folder that contains the Optegrity bundle software, g2-8.3r1, by default.

  2. Click the Security tab, then click the Advanced button.

  3. Enable the "Reset permissions on all child objects and enable propagation of inheritable permissions" option.

Enabling this option allows the user to run Optegrity without giving administrator privileges. You can now run Optegrity.

Information on bug fixes and known bugs is available separately as Technical Bulletins through HelpLink at www.gensym-support.com. For information on bugs in Optegrity Version 5.1 Rev. 1, choose Technical Bulletins for Optegrity, specify Starting From Version as 5.0 Rev. 0 and Ending At Version as
5.1 Alpha Rev. 0, choose the bugs and suggestions that either Remain Open or Were Fixed, then click Execute.

Optegrity is installed in the following directory, by default:

C:\Program Files\Gensym\g2-8.3r1\

Optegrity contains the following directories and files in the installation directory. This table lists only those directories and files that you need to know about for building and running Optegrity applications.

optegrity

g2i

doc

g2

The Optegrity documentation is available in Windows HTML Help and PDF format. The typical installation directory is:

C:\Program Files\Gensym\g2-8.3r1\doc\optegrity

You can access both types of online documentation from the Windows Start menu by choosing:

Start > Programs > Gensym G2 8.3r1 > Documentation > G2 Optegrity

You can also access the Windows HTML Help from within the Optegrity client from the Help menu.

Optegrity is bundled with the G2 Bundle, which means the complete G2 Bundle documentation is also available. For a description of the G2 Bundle documentation, see the readme-g2.html file.

You can access Optegrity online help by choosing Help > Help Topics from within the Optegrity client. You can also access Optegrity online help from the Start menu by choosing:

Start > Programs > Gensym G2 8.3r1 > Documentation > G2 Optegrity > Optegrity Help

The Windows help files are located in the doc\optegrity\WinHelp directory.

The top-level help file is called Master.chm and includes these online books:

• Getting Started

  • Optegrity Release Notes

  • Optegrity Heater Tutorial

• Optegrity Core

  • Optegrity User's Guide

  • G2 Event and Data Processing User's Guide

  • SymCure User's Guide

You must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 4.0 or later to view the PDF files.

The PDF documentation includes these files:

readme-optegrity.html

OptegrityHeaterTutorial.pdf

OptegrityUsersGuide.pdf

GEDPUsersGuide.pdf

SymCureUsersGuide.pdf

readme-symcure.html

To access online release notes:

-> Choose Programs > Gensym G2 8.3r1 > Documentation > G2 Optegrity > Optegrity Release Notes.

To access online PDF documentation:

-> Choose Programs > Gensym G2 8.3r1 > Documentation > G2 Optegrity.

Optegrity provides this example:

f102demo.kb

To run the Optegrity tutorial:

-> Choose Programs > Gensym G2 8.3r1 > Examples > G2 Optegrity > Heater Tutorial.

For information on upgrading SymCure applications, see readme-symcure.html.

If you need help with the installation, use Helplink or contact Gensym Customer Support: