A look at redundancy for the 8.5 release

November 17, 2016 / 0 comments / in General  / by CygNet Blog Admin

Just 10 months ago we published an article looking for feedback on our plan to make CygNet redundant.  We got lots of feedback (thank you!) and have been working hard ever since to lay the groundwork for a top notch feature.  As expected, we had to cut lots of scope and weren’t able to do it all in this release, but I’m confident that what we completed will get you to parity (or very close) with the scripted solution many of you are currently using.  We will continue working in the next release to deliver even more in 2017, but I wanted to take a moment to describe what you can expect in the coming 8.5 release.

WESC 2016 Breakout Slides

May 9, 2016 / 0 comments / in WESC  / by CygNet Blog Admin

Here are the slides from the CygNet breakout sessions presented at the 2016 Weatherford Enterprise Software Conference.

2016 Weatherford Enterprise Software Conference

March 10, 2016 / 0 comments / in General  WESC  / by CygNet Blog Admin

Don’t forget to register for the 2016 Weatherford Enterprise Software Conference, to be held in Houston on April 25-27, 2016. This year we will be talking about the latest release for SCADA and Measurement, the launch of the CygNet Mobile app, new developments in lift optimization, and a deep-dive into the CygNet Designer, plus the first look at Canvas, our new screen authoring environment. You won’t want to miss out so sign up soon!

The plan to make CygNet truly redundant

January 21, 2016 / 2 comments / in General  / by CygNet Blog Admin

As many of you are well aware, CygNet does not have a great solution for productized failover.  You can replicate CygNet data.  You can setup a clustering environment to detect failures.  You can write scripts to swap config files in order to change a services role.  I’ve talked to many of you over the last month or two and for those who do have a working solution, it took a lot of work to setup, and takes a lot of work to maintain.

For those of you who are in this boat, or are afraid to get into the boat, I’m happy to announce that we have a team assembled and are working to vastly improve this process!

CygNet Operator is released!

January 18, 2016 / 0 comments / in General  / by CygNet Blog Admin

I’m happy to announce that CygNet Operator, our first mobile app, has been officially released!  I won’t go into details on the app as that was already covered in a previous post.  I just wanted to let you all know that you can find the app in the iTunes store by searching for “CygNet Operator”.  You can’t do anything with the app until you connect to a host, so we have a test site running that is publically available.  If you are interested, just email us and we will send you the details (CygNetBlogAdmin@weatherford.com).

Blog Feedback

September 8, 2015 / 0 comments / in General  / by CygNet Blog Admin

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CygNet .NET API: Integrators, your life just got (a wee bit) easier

July 27, 2015 / 0 comments / in API  General  / by CygNet Blog Admin

I’m not sure how many of you noticed, but with the arrival of CygNet 8.1.3 came a fresh face in town to help with all your API woes (well, some of them anyway).  Our first round of .NET API assemblies were unleashed into the world to bring hope and joy to all who write their own integration applications on top of the CygNet system.

Up until this point, you’ve had a couple of different tools at your disposal.  CygNet ODBC, the COM scripting API, and the Enterprise Integration Suite are some of the different options you have to select from when you want to build an application to interact with CygNet. Each of these tools has its own set of advantages and disadvantages.

Update on CygNet mobile

July 16, 2015 / 0 comments / in General  / by CygNet Blog Admin

Since WESC is now ancient history, I wanted to give you all an update on our new mobile product.  For those who haven’t heard, we started a research project back in April 2014 to understand what our customers wanted from a CygNet mobile solution.  The research told us that lease operators were most in need of an app to view data and acknowledge alarms from the field.  That is what we have been working towards ever since and I’m pleased to announce that we are now feature complete!  That being said, the official release date is still Q4 as we have some minor issues to address and want spend some time focusing on performance.

CygNet ODBC and LEFT OUTER JOIN

June 19, 2015 / 0 comments / in General  Patch  / by CygNet Blog Admin

The CygNet ODBC driver has recently been patched such that it returns the correct rows for a query that processes the results of a LEFT OUTER JOIN with a subsequent LEFT OUTER JOIN. Previous to this patch, such a query would not return the correct rows and either generate an unknown exception in the associated log file or cause the application to crash.

I improved this screen’s performance by 1000% and so can you! (part 2)

May 22, 2015 / 0 comments / in General  / by CygNet Blog Admin

In Part 1 of my mathematically inventive “1000% improvement” tale, I introduced you to some fundamental diagnostic techniques for evaluating the potential causes of slow CygNet Studio screen performance.  Here in Part 2 of the continuing saga, we’ll dive into more details of the process by which we arrived at our Part 1 solution and introduce some useful tools for evaluating and understanding many CygNet message-based behaviors, not just this one example.