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5.3 External OPC Server

OPC is an industrial standard created in a collaboration of automation hardware and software suppliers. The standard defines methods for exchanging real-time automation data between PC-based clients using Microsoft operating systems.

An OPC server acts as a controller towards an operator panel.

5.3.1

OPC Classic Client

Settings for the OPC Classic client is made in the

Choose Controller

dialog.

Select

Localhost

when accessing an OPC server running in your local PC.

Select

Remote Server

when accessing an OPC server in the network environment, and type the IP address of the OPC server, or click

Browse

to select the OPC server. Clicking

Refresh

makes it possible to select the OPC server from the OPC

Server drop-down list next time.

Add OPC server tags by clicking the small arrow at the right-hand side of the

Add

button on the Tags tab:

To validate tags from a remote OPC server in the iX Developer project, return to the Controllers tab and select the remote OPC server once more, and click

OK

.

This procedure is necessary as the tags in the remote OPC server may have been changed since they were selected on the Tags tab.

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