Create and Start the Standard S7 Driver
- In System Browser, select Management View.
- Select Project > Management System > Servers > Main Server > Drivers.
- Object Configurator displays.
- Click New Object and select New STANDARD S7 DRIVER.
- When the Create New Object dialog box displays, the Child type is pre-defined to Standard S7 Driver, and the Name and Description fields are pre-defined to S7 Driver_n and S7 Driver Std n respectively, where 'n' represents the count of the number of drivers in the system.
- Click OK.
- The new Standard S7 Driver object appears in the System Browser below the Drivers node.
- Select the Standard S7 Driver node.
- Select the Extended Operation tab and navigate to the Status property.
- Click Start to start the driver. You may need to enlarge the pane to access the buttons that are located on the right side of the pane.
- The Status property changes to Started to indicate the driver has started.

NOTE:
You must not delete the driver if it is monitoring a network.