Administrator Application

The Administrator application (see Figure 1) is intended for developing Rapid SCADA projects and monitoring the state of the automated system. The Administrator is an integrated development environment provides editing the configuration database, configuring the main Rapid SCADA applications, Server modules and device drivers.

Figure 1. Administrator application

The Administrator tools to speed up the configuration process:

• Import and export of configuration database tables for the exchange of works between projects.
• Wizard to automatically create input and output channels.
• Channel cloning feature that minimizes manual input.

A project contains a set of configuration files, mainly using the XML format. This approach makes it easy to copy projects from one computer to another. To control project versions and collaboration, Git is the best choice.