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Beginning July 2020, ACM will only support Microsoft operating systems and servers that are also still supported by Microsoft.

ACM System Requirements:

• Microsoft Windows:  8.1 and 10 (Anniversary Update or later)
• Microsoft Windows Server:  2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019
• Microsoft SQL Server: 2012 SP4 or newer

AUTOSOL offers both a 32-bit and a 64-bit version of ACM.

For more information regarding the Microsoft product end-of-life dates, reference the Microsoft Lifecycle Policy.

For more information regarding ACM system requirements, reference the ACM System Planning and Requirements Guide.

Installation Notes

If you have a support agreement, the new ACM version can be downloaded by using the monthly login credentials received from your sales representative.  For more details, please contact us today.   

Components from ACM 8

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cannot be combined with components from ACM 7.

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• If upgrading from a Beta version of the 64-bit ACM 7.1, it must first be uninstalled.

• For installations that make use of Safe Mode operation, ACM 8.1 uses the "Microsoft ACE OLEDB 12.0" database driver for the safe mode database. The ACE OLEDB 12.0 driver can be downloaded from Microsoft here.
• It is always a good idea to back up your ACM configuration database before updating. This update makes changes to the database and if for some reason the update is not successful, a backup may be required to revert to your previous version of ACM.  Instructions are found in the ACM User Guide under Maintenance –> Backing up the SQL Database

OMNI 7000 Beta

ACM 8.1 includes a Beta release of the OMNI 7000 driver.  This driver:

• Supports OMNI 7000 devices and OMNI 7000 compatible RTUs
• Supports reading and writing to all valid Modbus registers and retrieving historical data
• Device Configuration
• Commands
• Data Types 
• OPC Items

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• Added a "LicenseExpiration" OPC item to display the date and time at which a temporary ACM license will expire.  If the license is temporary and active, the item will display the expiration date and time and have a “Good” quality. If the license is temporary and expired, the item will display the expiration date and time and have a “Bad” quality. If the license is not temporary, the item will show 12:00:00 AM with no date and the item's quality will be Bad“Bad”.

ACM GC Write Service

• Modified the service to allow CSV files created for the GC Write File Service to have empty fields when a component has no value. An empty field will not be used as a value.

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• Added variables Octane, Nonane and Decane to the ROC800L Internal Map.

  Note
  title Effect on Published Output
  Octane, Nonane and Decane fields will be published in CFX and CSV for ROC devices.

  
  

Teledyne CA Protocol

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• Improved the error message logged when an item with an incomplete name is added by an OPC client.
• Corrected an issue that caused the Sinewave item to stop updating after ACM had been running for an extended period of time.
• Improved the Archive Record deletion process to prevent reduce the likelihood of timeouts.
• Modified OPC item updates to use the timestamp from a remote device if the device is capable of sending a timestamp with the value.

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• Corrected an issue that caused time outs during Continuous Scans by preventing a Demand poll from occurring when triggered during cry-outs.
• Corrected an issue that caused an incorrect message sequence to be sent out during call-in on a messenger modem.
• Corrected an issue that caused the EFM upload to stop before it was complete if the last audit record in the upload resulted in a timestamp gap.

• Corrected an issue that caused incorrect values to be published for Audit Trail volume units for non-350 series devices.

  Note
  title Effect on Published Output
  Audit record volume units for non-350 series Mercury devices will now have correct values.

  
  

• Corrected an issue that caused EFM history records to always be published with a value of 60 for the $$Record.Period$$ field.

  Note
  title Effect on Published Output
  EFM history records are now published with the correct value in the $$Record.Period$$ field.

  
  

• Corrected an issue that caused the LogTrigger column to be missing from a CSV Audit Report.

  Note
  title Effect on Published Output
  The CSV audit report will contain the LogTrigger column by default. This may add an additional column to the CSV report.

  
  

• Modified the contents of the LogTrigger column in a CSV Audit Report to contain the entire T&A value.

  Note
  title Effect on Published Output
  The LogTrigger column in the CSV audit report will now contain the entire T&A field value.

  
  

• Corrected an issue that caused some items to have an incorrect data type which could result in invalid values or statuses.

• Corrected an issue that could cause non-time triggered audit records to be published even when the ACM device object was not configured to do so.

  Note
  title Effect on Published Output
  Non time-triggered audit records will only be published if the ACM device object is configured to do so.

  
  

• Corrected an issue that could cause too many audit configuration registers to be polled.

• Corrected an issue that prevented an item's unit value from being published in the audit record if the item's units could not be resolved.

  Note
  title Effect on Published Output
  Item unit values are now published for all items in the audit record, including the items that do not have an associated unit. This may add additional columns to a CSV report.

  
  

• Corrected an issue that caused response packets of audit records with fewer than four item fields to be processed as an error response.
• Corrected an issue that caused history upload to continue despite a failure to read audit configuration.
• Known issue: Right-clicking to find references for an object referenced by a new Honeywell Mercury device object may return a message that no objects were found.

Modbus Protocol

Enron Modbus Protocol

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• Corrected an issue that caused EFM history records to always be published with a value of 60 for the $$Record.Period$$ field.

  Note
  title Effect on Published Output
  EFM history records are now published with the correct value in the $$Record.Period$$ field.

  
  

• Corrected an issue that prevented the LogTrigger column from appearing on a CSV Audit Report.

  Note
  title Effect on Published Output
  The CSV audit report will contain the LogTrigger column by default. This may add an additional column to the CSV report.

  
  

• Modified the contents of the LogTrigger column in a CSV Audit Report to contain the entire T&A value.

  Note
  title Effect on Published Output
  The LogTrigger column in the CSV audit report will now contain the entire T&A field value.

  
  

• Corrected an issue that could cause non-time triggered audit records to be published even when the ACM device object was not configured to do so.

  Note
  title Effect on Published Output
  Non time-triggered audit records will only be published if the ACM device object is configured to do so.

  
  

• Corrected an issue that caused history upload to continue despite a failure to read audit configuration.

• Corrected an issue that prevented the K-Factor value from being published.

  Note
  title Effect on Published Output
  Non time-triggered audit records will only be published if the ACM device object is configured to do so.

  
  

Siemens S7 Protocol

• Resolved an issue with OPC item Read/Write access showing only Writable and not Readable.

Totalflow Protocol

• Modified the driver to stop history collection if meter configuration retrieval failed and no it failed to retrieve meter configuration data has been retrieved previously. If meter configuration data has previously been retrieved the history collection will continueunless it was successfully retrieved in a previous history collection.
• Modified the initial OPC quality of “MoveEvent” to be “Good” to match the other "Move" items.
• Corrected an issue that caused the "Request 3 days of history when 2 days history is needed" option to be ignored.