Connectivity

Certain pruduction environments may require the possibility for displaying events of certain machines on a host computer. The TcEventLogger does support two ways for implementing such systems:

• DCOM
  This is a propietary protocol developed by Microsoft. Method calls are serialized over the network so that one can call methods inside the remote TcEventLogger. This protocol is only avalable on Windows NT/ XP based systems.
• ADS
  Beckhoff has defined a binary protocol for exchange of event states and state callbacks. This protocol is supported on NT/ XP as well as on Windows CE.

Exchanging the communication layer during the development process or even at runtime is possible with minimal effort.