A control and monitoring system for a switchgear cabinet, having at least one switchgear cabinet (G1 . . . Gn), a control and monitoring arrangement (ÜS, ÜS1) and an operating and information system having user components designed for remote control, data processing, data transfer and memory components, and a user guide arrangement and a configuration arrangement, the control and monitoring system comprising:
- in a vendor arrangement (RS) the operating and information system containing a planning arrangement for selectively combining the at least one switchgear cabinet with switchgear cabinet components into an individual user unit NA, NA1) in which vendor data from different of the switchgear cabinets (G1 . . . Gn) and switchgear cabinet components are contained, from which a selected arrangement of planning data from the at least one switchgear cabinet and the switchgear cabinet components can be extracted.