The Deploy feature facilitates seamless deployment of changes to the project's runtime while also enabling to start the project. Once you configure the data sources and tags/data points, you can deploy the project to the connector runtime. You can select the required data points of each data source that you want to deploy, and only the selected data points are deployed. When you deploy the data points to the connector runtime, the configuration is saved and loaded to the connector runtime.
The SIMATIC S7 Connector allows you to edit or delete the data points or import the new data points without stopping the runtime. When you deploy and start the project using Deploy button, you can again use the Deploy button to deploy the changes while the runtime is still running.
When you deploy the changes, Connector birth message and Connector status data is published. For more information on status publish, refer Connector and Connection Status.
While the runtime is running, you cannot perform the following tasks:
- Configuring Optimized SIMATIC S7 connection with TLS security enabled.
- Configuring Full Text Alarms