What is Loopback Adopter and why we need it?

Since we are working on our laptops, Our laptop network card has one IP address, we need another
device to communicate (in case of substation other devices are relays, BCUs), since we do not have
devices attached with our laptop through switch, we make a virtual network card pretending to be
another device to communicate. This virtual network card for practice purpose is called as loopback
adopter.

More definitions are as below:

Microsoft Loopback Adapter is a dummy network card, no hardware is involved. It is used as a testing
tool for a virtual network environment where network access is not available

After the loopback adapter is installed, there are at least two network adapters on your computer: your
own network adapter and the loopback adapter.

What is environment variable

Environment variables are global variables accessible for all programs in windows. First we define
environment variable with the name of csc2100_home and define the directory where it will belong to
i.e. D:\csc2100_home then we give name of this variable in “Path”. CSC2000V2 will be installed in D
directory in folder named csc2100_home

Path is a well-known variable and it keeps the name of those programs which are executable and need
commands to execute can be directly executed by single click if we have added there name in Path. If we
miss this step we will have to use number of commands to open CSC2000V2 every time we want to
start.

Environment variable specifies the directories in which executable programs are located on the machine
that can be started without knowing and typing the whole path to the file on the command line

You can read more about environment variable from here.

https://superuser.com/questions/284342/what-are-path-and-other-environment-variables-and-how-
can-i-set-or-use-them

This terms i.e. environment variable is related to operating system.

Why Change Computer Name

Computer Name is changed for recognizing multiple computers at substation like SCADA 1, SCADA 2,
SCADA 3 etc.