SIMATIC

STEP 7 Professional 2017
Engineering Software for SIMATIC S7 / C7

Security Information:

Siemens provides products and solutions with industrial security functions that support the secure operation of plants, systems, machines and networks.
 

In order to protect plants, systems, machines and networks against cyber threats, it is necessary to implement - and continuously maintain - a holistic, state-of-the-art industrial security concept. Siemens' products and solutions only form one element of such a concept.
 

Customer is responsible to prevent unauthorized access to its plants, systems, machines and networks. Systems, machines and components should only be connected to the enterprise network or the internet if and to the extent necessary and with appropriate security measures (e.g. use of firewalls and network segmentation) in place.
 

Additionally, Siemens' guidance on appropriate security measures should be taken into account. For more information about industrial security, please visit
 

http://www.siemens.com/industrialsecurity

Siemens' products and solutions undergo continuous development to make them more secure. Siemens strongly recommends to apply product updates as soon as available and to always use the latest product versions. Use of product versions that are no longer supported, and failure to apply latest updates may increase customer's exposure to cyber threats.
 

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Notes on Installation and Usage

These notes should be considered more up-to-date than the information in other documents. Read the notes carefully, because they contain information on installing and using STEP 7 Professional.

Also read the Special Notes of the STEP 7 Professional parts of products.

Note when printing the file that the left and right margins are set to a width of 25 millimeters for A4 portrait size.

Contents

Notes on Installation

Contents              1

1              Contents of the Consignment              2

2              Hardware Requirements              3

3              Software Requirements              4

3.1              Operating Environment              4

3.2              Memory Requirements              5

4              Installation              6

4.1              Installation of STEP 7 Professional              6

4.1.1              Firewall              7

4.2              License Key of STEP 7 Professional              8

4.3              Uninstalling STEP 7 Professional              9

5              Additional Notes              9

5.1              Special Characteristics of the MS Windows 7 Operating System              9

6              Terms of License and Disclaimer of Liability for Open Source Software              11

Notes on Installation

The installation notes contain important information that you will require in order to install STEP 7 Professional. Read these notes before installing the software.

1              Contents of the Consignment

Contents of DVD STEP 7 Professional

·              Folder "InstData":

-              STEP 7 V5.6

-              Automation License Manager V5.3 incl. SP4 incl. Upd1

-              S7-GRAPH V5.6

-              S7-SCL V5.6

-              S7-PLCSIM V5.4 incl. SP8

-              S7-PCT V3.4 incl. HF2

-              S7 Web2PLC V1.0 SP3
Application for creation and setup of user-defined Web pages for the Web server of the CPU.

-              S7 Block Privacy V1.0 SP4
Application for encoding of blocks.
Notes:
A block protected with Block Privacy can only be loaded to the following CPUs:
- S7-300 and ET 200 CPUs as of firmware V3.2
- S7-400 CPUs as of firmware V 6.0
- A block protected with "Block Privacy" will not be considered in the reference data lists! Keep this in mind when creating protected blocks. All global variables used in creating protected blocks cannot be entered in the reference data list. This means you should not use global variables in the protected blocks.

·              Folder "_Manuals":

-              file "STEP 7 - What's New.rtf"

-              file "S7-GRAPH - What's New.rtf"

-              file "S7-SCL - What's New.rtf"

-              Electronic manuals for STEP 7 V5.6

-              Electronic manuals for S7-GRAPH V5.6

-              Electronic manuals for S7-SCL V5.6

-              Electronic manuals for S7-PLCSIM V5.4 incl. SP8

-              Command Interface description

-              Description of the Central Installation Procedure

The manuals are available in an installable form in the folder "_Manuals" and are optionally available on your computer after STEP 7 Professional has been installed. If you do not install the manuals, you can also view at any time on the data carrier.

·              Folder "Optional Components" (Has to be explicitly installed by the user if necessary).

-              Folder "Communication Blocks"

Documentation of blocks FETCH/WRITE-FBs 210 and 220.

-              Folder "PROFIenergy"

Projects (ET200S) and descriptions

-              Folder "OC Wizard"

With this tool, link modules for open TCP/IP communication can be created.

The wizard can be installed from this folder by means of “Setup“. An existing installation must be removed beforehand.

In this folder, please read the provided documentation with application examples (PDF file) as well as the conditions of warranty, liability and support.

-              Folder "SIMATIC iMap STEP 7 Addon"

-              Folder "SCT Security Configuration Tool"

Configuration of the Security functions of SIMATIC NET products

-              Folder "CP PtP-Param"

Configuration of the communications processors CP 340, CP 341, CP 440, CP 441-1, CP 441-2

-              Folder "FM Configuration Package"

Configuration of the function modules FM 350-1, FM 350-2, FM 351, FM 352, FM 352-5, FM 355, FM 355-2, FM 450-1, FM 451, FM 452, FM 455

·              Folder "Open Source Software"
Source code of the OSS software

2              Hardware Requirements

In order to work with the STEP 7 Professional, you need a suitable programming device or a suitable PC. There are no special hardware requirements. Therefore, the minimum requirements specific to the operating system apply. You can find these requirements on the appropriate Microsoft websites.

When using a PC instead of a PG, you also need to have an external prommer for SIMATIC Memory Cards / MMC if you want to save your S7 user program to EPROMs. A communications card (CP) or SIMATIC NET connection is necessary for PC online functions to the automations system (PLC).

As of STEP 7 V5.5 you can use the USB prommer without installating additional software. The necessary functionality has been integrated as of STEP 7 V5.5.

3              Software Requirements

3.1              Operating Environment

Operating System

STEP 7 Professional can be used with the following operating systems:

·              MS Windows 7 Ultimate, Professional and Enterprise (64-bit), with SP1

·              MS Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise (64-bit)

·              MS Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) with SP1 (Standard Edition as work station computer)

·              MS Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit) (Standard Edition as work station computer)

·              MS Windows Server 2016 (64-bit) (Standard Edition as work station computer)

STEP 7 Professional has not been tested on any other operating systems; use at your own risk.

Important additional information:

·         STEP 7 V5.6 checks during the installation of HSPs and other functions, that the files have a valid certificate. This check requires a corresponding root certificate, which has to be available on the computer in a current version. If the root certificate is unavailable or expired, errors can occur during the installation of HSPs or the performance in connection with GSDML files can suffer. This behavior is described in FAQ 87057037.
http://support.automation.siemens.com/WW/view/de/87057037

·              Special considerations when installing the software on MS Windows Server 2008:
You need administrator rights to configure the PG/PC interface or install hardware support packages. The user rights from the user group "Siemens TIA Engineer" are not sufficient.

·              Special consideration when installing the software as of MS Windows 7: Observe the notes in the paragraph "Special Characteraistics of the Operating Systems" regarding the user group "Siemens TIA Engineer".

Supported virtualization platforms

You can install the SIMATIC STEP 7 Professional 2017 software package in a virtual machine. To do so, use one of the following virtualization platforms:

·              VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESX(i) 6.0

·              VMware Workstation Pro 12.5.2

·              VMware Workstation Player 12.5.2

·              Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V.

You can use the following host operating systems within the selected virtualization platform to install SIMATIC STEP 7 Professional 2017:

·              Windows 7 Professional/Ultimate/Enterprise (64-bit)

·              Windows 10 Pro (64-bit).

There can be restrictions on the STEP 7 online functions.

Internet Explorer

All operating systems must be using MS Internet Explorer 6.0 (or higher).

Display of PDF files

To read the supplied PDF files, you need a PDF reader that is compatible with PDF 1.7 (ISO32000-1:2008 PDF).

Security settings

In project directories, all users who have write access are to receive write permission in case of non-exclusive use by one user only. These rights have to be set up by an administrator.

Note: The standard rights available in the operating system depend on the operating system in use. Tools used for the creation of partitions will implement their own security guidelines.

Hibernation mode

Shifting to hibernation mode is generally permitted in STEP 7 Professional. However, hibernation must not be triggered if online connections are open or projects are being accessed by STEP 7 applications via a network.

In such cases, online connections could be terminated unintentionally and open projects on networks may experience data loss.

For these reasons, the energy options for the operating system in the Windows Control Panel should be set so that hibernation is not automatically triggered (by timer). Hibernation should not be triggered manually by the user in the cases mentioned above.

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