Optimize SCADA Momentaries

By default, SCADA incidents (no matter their outage times) create and restore loadpoints at the times “Incident Open” and “Incident Close” are received from the SCADA system. Creating and restoring loadpoints for large incidents can affect application performance, so it is important to do so only if necessary. Toward that end, RxIF has an optimized engine that processes “momentary” incidents without creating the loadpoints. It is important to remember that “momentary” incidents are not counted in the Reliability Reports anyway, so it is recommended to configure the definition of “momentary” for the optimized engine.

There are configurations in two separate configuration files. To configure the optimized engine, follow these steps:

Navigate to the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Miner and Miner\Responder\Integration\Scada Service
Open the Miner.Responder.ScadaService XML configuration file in a text editor such as Notepad ++.
Locate the appSetting “Scada.OptimizeScadaIncidentCreation”

TIP: The easiest way to locate the proper setting is to search for Scada.Optimize.

Set the value to “true.” This turns on the optimized engine.

<appSettings>
   <add key="Scada.OptimizeScadaIncidentCreation" value="true" />
</appSettings>

Save and close the configuration file. Next, you configure the time definition of “momentary.”
Navigate to the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Miner and Miner\Responder\Server
Open the Miner.Responder.DataServices XML configuration file in a text editor such as Notepad ++.
Locate the appSetting “Momentary.MinTime”

IMPORTANT: If you do not find the appSetting, you can add it to the XML configuration file in order to configure this setting.
Set the time value definition for “momentary.” The time format of the value is hr:min:sec. In the following example, a SCADA incident duration of 1 minute or less is classified as “momentary.”
```
<appSettings>
   <add key="Momentary.MinTime" value="00:01:00" />
</appSettings>
```
Save and close the configuration file.
Restart both the Responder and RxIF Scada Services to enact the change for your users.