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- Communication line category: OPC.
- OPC parameters:
- OPC Host: Only Remote entrance requires it. Computer, where the program D2000 OPC Server is installed in - it is defined for OPC server type "Remote" only (maximum string: 50 characters). You can define names according to the UNC convention (e.g. \\server or server), DNS domain names (e.g. domain.com, example.company.com) or IP address (196.54.23.113).
- Backup Host: Only Remote entrance requires it. It is backup OPC host. If the parameter is defined, after the communication has failed, the process D2000 KOM is attempting to establish connection alternately with the OPC host and Backup host.
- OPC Server: Name (ProgID) of the OPC server (maximum string: 50 characters).
- Server Type: according to the server type – InProc, Local or Remote.
Communication line parameters
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| OPC HDA server name (ProgID), if it is available. OPC HDA functions not to be activate use empty text. | - | |||||||
| Sets the parameter NumItems at synchronous reading of historical "raw" values. The implicit value 0 (zero) means all values in the given interval. | - | 0 | ||||||
| Starts the sequencing of calling the function Refresh2 of interfaces Async I/O 2.0 and Async I/O 3.0. The calling executes after the first calling has been finished (after it gets the values). | YES/NO | NO | ||||||
| Failed OPC group activations will be attempted again after a delay specified by parameter "Group reactivation delay". | YES/NO | YES | ||||||
| A delay after which a failed OPC group activations is repeated if repetition is enabled by parameter "Repeat failed group activation". | sec | 30 | ||||||
| When an OPC group activation fails, KOM disconnects from OPC server and reestablishes a connection. Parameter is relevant in a configuration of redundant OPC servers (after a disconnect from an OPC server follows a reconnect to alternate OPC server where group activation may be successful). | YES/NO | NO | ||||||
| Period of executing the call of GetGroupState of interface IOPCGroupStateMgt. This synchronous call is repeated periodically and detects the problems which could occur in communication with OPC Server. | sec | 10 | ||||||
| All the errors returned by calling of "GetGroupState" of interface IOPCGroupStateMgt are considered to be fatal (they will result in disconnect from the OPC server and reconnect or in restart the COM process). | YES/NO | NO | ||||||
| Allows to stop KOM process when the fatal error occurs in communication. See the Note. | YES/NO | NO | ||||||
| Only the active KOM process (i.e., the active instance connected to the HOT server) communicates with the OPC server. The KOM process, which becomes passive (by changing the active instance or switching the redundancy), closes the connection to the OPC server. Note: This parameter allows to reduce the OPC server load in redundant D2000 systems as well as to solve roblems with license limitation of the number of OPC clients. | YES/NO | NO |
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Fatal abort of communication with OPC Server causes the COM/OPC errors at callings:
- GetGroupState of interface IOPCGroupStateMgt,
- "Write" of interface IOPCASyncIO2, IOPCASyncIO3 and IOPCSyncIO2,
- "Read" of interface IOPCASyncIO2, IOPCASyncIO3 and IOPCSyncIO2.
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Communication protocol: OPC Data Access 2.05 & 3.0.
Station address requires:
- OPC Group Name - maximum string: 80 characters. This name is only formal in most cases and has no direct relation to the address scheme of devices communicating with the OPC server. The name of group must be unique, two stations cannot the same OPC Group Name within one link.
- Type - data access type. You can chose one of the Async I/O 2.0, Async I/O 3.0 and Synchronous I/O options. The Async I/O 2.0 option - the asynchronous OPC interfaces IOPCAsyncIO2 and IOPCDataCallback (OnDataChange and OnReadcompleted call-back procedures) are used for data reading. The Synchronous I/O 2.0 option - OPC interface IOPCSyncIO is used. The Async I/O 3.0 option - OPC interfaces IOPCAsyncIO3 and IOPCDataCallback (OnDataChange and OnReadCompleted call-back procedures) are used for value reading of OPC items
- Create Active - if the option is checked, the OPC group is active and OPC items in this group get values. If the option is not checked, the OPC group and items are initialized, but the OPC items do not get values. It is possible to block the OPC group - station temporarily. The option controls the pActive parameter of SetState call of the OPC interface IOPCGroupStateMgt.
- Update Rate - it is given in milliseconds and defines the maximum speed of OPC item value changes for the option Async I/O 2.0 or Async I/O 3.0. It is transferred as parameter pRequestedUpdateRate of SetState call of OPC interface IOPCGroupStateMgt. Warning - the information, set in tab Time parameters in dialog window Communication station - configuration dialog box defines the read rate of OPC items.
- % Deadband - the parameter range is from 0.0 up to 100.0%. The parameter can be only used for analog type of items and determines the minimal change of the item for sending the value from the server to clients. For calculation, the OPC server uses the range defined by parameters High EU and Low EU, which can be get by using the interface IOPCItemProperties. Default value of this parameter is 0.0. Value of % Deadband is transferred by means of parameter pPercentDeadband of the SetState call of the OPC interface IOPCGroupStateMgt.
Note: The protocol OPC Client described in this topic does not support the OPC interface IOPCItemProperties. For further information read up the document listed in the section Literature. - Time Bias - If OPC server and OPC client do not run in the same time zone, the parameter (given in minutes) will be used for the correct calculation of the value time of the OPC item - time stamp. Default value of the parameter is 0 (zero). For further information read up the documents listed in the section Literature.
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| Allows to verify the value after the recording by synchronous reading. | YES/NO | NO | ||||||
| Allows to write data into OPC Server only by synchronous interface IOPCSyncIO2. | YES/NO | NO | ||||||
| Using the Async I/O 3 option allows to write data by WriteVQT function of IOPCASyncIO3 interface (i.e. the write that transfers the quality and the timestamp together with the value). | YES/NO | NO | ||||||
| Activates the debug list. It increases the number of information about the communication operation. It is recommended to use only in detection of the problems and debugging. | YES/NO | NO | ||||||
| Special mode for communication with OPC Servers made by Merz company. The conversion to/from MS DOS Date Time Format (2 x WORD) is used for values of TiA and ToA type. | YES/NO | NO | ||||||
| Delay which is artificial inserted between the AddItems callings to slow down the initialisation phase. | ss:mss | 0 | ||||||
| Integer value of "ERROR" state for conversion into Qi - quaternary input. | 0,1,2,3 | 3 | ||||||
| Integer value of "OFF" state for conversion into Qi - quaternary input. | 0,1,2,3 | 2 | ||||||
| Integer value of "ON" state for conversion into Qi - quaternary input. | 0,1,2,3 | 1 | ||||||
| Integer value of "TRANS" state for conversion into Qi - quaternary input. | 0,1,2,3 | 0 | ||||||
| If the quality of OPC item changes into "BAD", the value of I/O tag will be valid with Weak flag. | YES/NO | NO | ||||||
| Blocks the effort to call AddItems which still repeats after its failure. | YES/NO | NO | ||||||
| Activates all the items of group by one calling. It can quicken the OPC communication start. | YES/NO | NO | ||||||
| Keeps files of all callings of Write and Refresh2 functions as separate transactions. If they do not end up (successful or unsuccessful) to this timeout, the error message will occur in trace file of communication. | sec | 120 | ||||||
| Timeout, which delays the repeat of failed operation:
| sec | 5 | ||||||
| Enables a synchronous reading of the item value before the writing in case that KOM process do not know correct item data type (i.e. if there is an default value of data type "Empty/Default (VT_EMPTY)", the value must be written). | YES/NO | YES | ||||||
| Address of OPC Item (OPC Item ID), which contains the OPC server or OPC group error status (e.g. depending on the state of communication). An I/O tag with this address must also be configured. If the status reports error, it will affect the values of all I/O tags on the station (they will have the Weak flag set). The Status Item Inverted Operation parameter specifies what value corresponds to the error status. | - | - | ||||||
| Interpretation of the OPC Item Status Item Name with error status of OPC server or OPC group. The NO value means that the False or 0 reports the correct state and True respectively non-zero value reports an error. The YES value means that the False or 0 means the error state and True respectively non-zero value reports correct status. | YES/NO | NO | ||||||
| Mapping the OPC DA flag of quality Non Specific into the attributes of I/O tag value. | None, FA, FB, FC, FD, FE, FF, FG, FH, FI, FJ, FK, FL, FM, FN, FO, FP | None | ||||||
| Mapping the OPC DA flag of quality LocalOverride into the attributes of I/O tag value. | ||||||||
| Mapping the OPC DA flag of quality Config Error into the attributes of I/O tag value. | ||||||||
| Mapping the OPC DA flag of quality Not Connected into the attributes of I/O tag value. | ||||||||
| Mapping the OPC DA flag of quality Device Failure into the attributes of I/O tag value. | ||||||||
| Mapping the OPC DA flag of quality Sensor Failure into the attributes of I/O tag value. | ||||||||
| Mapping the OPC DA flag of quality Last Known into the attributes of I/O tag value. | ||||||||
| Mapping the OPC DA flag of quality Comm Failure into the attributes of I/O tag value./td> | ||||||||
| Mapping the OPC DA flag of quality Out Of Service into the attributes of I/O tag value. | ||||||||
| Mapping the OPC DA flag of quality Waiting For Initial Data into the attributes of I/O tag value. | ||||||||
| Mapping the OPC DA flag of quality Last Usable into the attributes of I/O tag value. | ||||||||
| Mapping the OPC DA flag of quality Sensor Cal into the attributes of I/O tag value. | ||||||||
| Mapping the OPC DA flag of quality EGU Exceeded into the attributes of I/O tag value. | ||||||||
| Mapping the OPC DA flag of quality Sub Normal into the attributes of I/O tag value. | ||||||||
| If consecutive number of errors during reading equals to the value of this parameter, reinitialisation of OPC connection will be performed. Value of zero means that reinitialisaton will not be performed (default behaviour). Current implementation handles only errors in synchronous mode (type setting to "Synchronous I/O" in tab Address of Station object). | - | 0 |
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Possible I/O tag types: Ai, Ao, Ci, Co, Di, Qi, Dout, TiA, ToA, TiR, ToR, TxtI, TxtO.
I/O tag address requires to define OPC Item ID (maximum string: 200 characters). If OPC server supports interface IOPCBrowseServerAddressSpace, the address OPC Item ID may be selected directly from the address list supported by OPC server (it is needed to click on button "Browse Items...", see the section Browsing of OPC server address space.
Note: if I/O tag's address is specified as %IGNORE, such an I/O tag will be ignored.
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Further required parameters (OPC Item Parameters) are:
- Type - required data type VARIANT. Default value is Empty/Default (VT_EMPTY), - the OPC server makes a decision on the VARIANT type of the item.
- Item Active - if the option is checked, the item will be active and get values from the server. The option is transferred by the parameter bActive of the pItemArray structure into the AddItems call of the OPC interface IOPCItemMgt.
- Bit Index - bit number. It is defined as a number within the range of 0..31. It can be only used for the Di and Dout value types. Value received from the OPC server is being converted to 32 bit unsigned number and the binary value of the I/O tag is the value of particular Bit Index. The conversion is allowed only for the VARIANT values of integer types (e.g. VT_UI1, see the adjusted parameter Type).
- Array Index - the option (a number within the range of 0..32767) determines the index in the array of received VARIANT value from the OPC server of the Array type. Array value on the defined position is assigned to the value of the I/O tag.
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The protocol supports the configuration of tab Destination of I/O tag. If the value of OPC item is of Array type, the communication protocol copies the values of array from the item ArrayIndex into column of structured variable. The size of structured variable is taken into consideration. If the array VARIANT is smaller than number of structured variable rows the empty rows of structured variable will be invalid. If the number of structured variable rows is smaller than array VARIANT, the values which are remaining are ignored.
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Clicking on button "Browse Items..." in the Address tab of I/O tag dialog box opens another dialog window "OPC Item Browser".
Here the user can choose the items from the OPC server address space. The item representation can be "Hierarchical" or "Flat". Some of the OPC servers do not support the "Hierarchical" representation (the button "Hierarchical" is disabled). If both the representations are supported the "Hierarchical" may be switched over to "Flat" and vice-versa.
- Hierarchical - enables browsing of the OPC server address space according to the logical hierarchical groups and subgroups. The dialog box "OPC Item Browser" is divided into two parts:
- hierarchical tree structure (top part)
- list of OPC items (OPC tags) belonging to the selected branch (bottom part)
- Flat - displays all the available OPC items in one linear list.
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On the top part of the dialog window there are filter options. Text "Filter" allows to show only the items according to mask (some of the OPC servers supports so-called star convention).
"Data Type Filter" allows to show the items containing a suitable data type. The option "Empty/Default" is default and enables to view all the items.
User must define whether the filter should be applied on the hierarchical tree structure (check button "Apply to the branches") or also on the OPC items (check button "Apply to the items").
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D2000 KOM Process (version 7.01.020 rel. 055 and higher) supports the getting GUID OPC Servers from ProgID on remote computers through the DCOM interface by OPCENUM utility (remote browsing). The local registration of OPC server at client is not required if the utility/windows service OPCENUM has been installed on the local PC with D2000 KOM process as the OPC client and on the remote PC as the OPC server and the access rights allows the remote browsing. The utility OPCENUM is a part of package OPC Core Components Redistributable available on http://www.opcfoundation.org/ or as the part of OPC Server installation package.
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If this error occurs (see the section COM/OPC errors record):
ERROR: OPCServerName caused COM/OPC error 80040153H on CoCreateInstanceEx(IID_OpcServerList), Error string : Invalid value for registry
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it is necessary to install the OPC Core Components Redistributable also on the OPC client (KOM process). The registration of OPC Server is optional. To register use one of the two ways:
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- Some OPC servers are supplied together with installation programs supporting the connection of OPC clients (third side) to the remote OPC server. This installation programs are called e.g. OPC Server Connect, etc. After installation, the OPC server (ProgID) appears in the list of OPC servers on the client's computer. D2000 OPC client uses this information for acquisition of CLSID from given ProgID (see the section Communication line configuration). A OPC server registered by this way, of course, can't be run on the client side.
- Manual registration of the OPC server on the client side. Proceed as follows:
- Copy the OPC server (from the computer where has been installed) into an auxiliary directory on the client side (computer).
- Run the command line from the directory.
- Register the OPC server. If the OPC server name is e.g. OPCSERVER.EXE, then you enter: OPCSERVER.EXE /regserver and press ENTER. If the OPC server is only as .dll, use the system utility regsvr32.
- The auxiliary directory and files can be deleted.
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- On the computer with OPC server use the command "dcomcnfg" to start "Component Services" (or start it in "Administrative Tools").
- Select "Properties" menu in "Component Services" -> "Computer" -> "My Computer".
- Make sure that DCOM is enabled, i.e. parameter "Enable Distributed COM on this computer" on "Default Properties" tab is checked.
- In the list of components, select required OPC server and open the dialog box containing its parameters (Properties). Click the Security tab.
- The parameter "Launch And Activation Permissions" set to Customize and click Edit... button.
- Find the required user and if is not in the list, add him/her into..
- Enable the options "Remote Launch" and "Remote Activation".
- The parameter Access permission set to Customize and click Edit... button.
- In the "Identity" tab check whether "The launching user" or "This user" option is enabled, which is also the checking of user account that you configure. Typically, we recommend the setting "The launching user". If some problems occur, try direct setting "This user". In any case, be careful about setting "The interactive user", which is absolutely not recommended! The OPC server can be accessible and started only if some user is interactively logged on to computer with OPC server. This setting leads to the problems such as unavailability of OPC server, e.g. after its starting until any user is logged on.
- If you must use the setting "The system account (services only)", i.e. OPC server works as Windows service, watch the level of access rights of "SYSTEM" according to above mentioned rules.
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Wrong setting of access rights will probably causes an error (see the section Errors and problems - COM/OPC error reports):
|E|> ERROR: ServerProgID caused COM/OPC error 80070005H on CoCreateInstanceEx(CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER), Error string : Access is denied.
Watch logs in the Event Viewer.
The problem can be partially solved when you add the Everyone group into Launch Permissions and Access Permissions. To ensure, that the OPC server will be run under some user (not under SYSTEM account), open the tab Identity and define the data for the option This user. In this case, the OPC server is not safe.
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If the KOM process runs as Windows service it cannot use the parameters /X1 or /X2, because it does not work under the logged on user but under SYSTEM account and access rights verification executed by the OPC server fails. Use the start up parameter /X4".
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If it is not possible to start up the KOM process with parameter /X4, check the user to be included in Policy Log on as a service. Open the Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy -> Local Policies -> User Rights Assignment -> Log on as a service.
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For users working under Windows XP with ServicePack2 or later operating systems, it is recommended to change the parameter Network access: Let Everyone permissions apply to anonymous users (Local Security Policy -> Local Policies -> Security Options) to the value of Enabled.
If there occurs similar error like this:
|E|> ERROR: ServerName caused COM/OPC error 80070005H on Advise(IID_IOPCDataCallback), Error string : E_ACCESSDENIED Access is denied.
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there is necessary to add a user in context of whose the communication runs. In "Component Services" on the computer with OPC client (KOM process) add this user to the list of users on the "COM Security" tab -> "Edit Limits", for both the parameters "Access Permissions" and "Launch and Activation Permissions" and enable "Remote Access" / "Remote Activation". It is problem connected with the establishing the call-back connection with OPC server. In this case, the roles are reversed and OPC client (i.e. KOM process) works as DCOM server. Adding this user and enabling the remote access enables establishing the call-back procedures between OPC client and OPC server. Call-back procedures are necessary for acquiring the values from OPC server in the asynchronous mode "Async I/O 2.0" and "Async I/O 3.0".
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If the OPC server is configured to run under "The interactive user" on the last tab Identity of the "Properties" dialog window, it may cause the OPC server to be available only when a user is logged on the computer. We recommend to change this setting to "The launching user", "This user", resp. "The system account". |
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When starting or during the course of communication, the following error reports could occur. For an easier identification of the problem, set the communication tracking level at least to the level Monitor, or temporarily to the level Monitor & disk in the configuration dialog box of particular communication line. If you select the level Monitor & disk, the file line_name.LOG containing all debug and error logs will be created in the subdirectory /TRACE of the application directory on the computer with running process D2000 KOM.
| Error: | WriteAsync - FAILED (transactionID) - Item : 'OPCItemID' |
| Description: | Attempt to write the value using the Write function call of the OPC interface IOPCAsyncIO2 failed. |
| Error: | ShutDown OPC Server : 'ServerProgID' ! |
| Description: | The OPC server was stopped, probably in a correct way even though it has active clients. |
| Error: | OPC Server 'ServerProgID' is unavailable ! |
| Description: | The remote DCOM OPC server is unavailable. Process D2000 KOM as a client is still attempting to connect the server. Check the PC with installed OPC server (if it is running and is correctly connected to the local network). |
| Error: | SetCallBack - FAILED, Group : 'OPCGroupName', Server : 'ServerProgID' ! |
| Description: | Fatal error - call-back procedures of the OPC interface OPCDataCallback could not have been initialized for the OPC group. Contact the Ipesoft's technical support. |
| Error: | SetGroupState - FAILED, Group : 'OPCGroupName', Server : 'ServerProgID' ! |
| Description: | Fatal error - SetStatefunction call of the OPC interface IOPCGroupStateMgt failed. Contact the Ipesoft's technical support. |
| Error: | EnableSubscribe - FAILED, Group : 'OPCGroupName',Server : 'ServerProgID' ! |
| Description: | Fatal error - SetEnable function call of the OPC interface IOPCAsyncIO2 failed. Contact the Ipesoft's technical support. |
| Error: | RefreshAllAsync - FAILED, Group : 'OPCGroupName', Server : 'ServerProgID' ! |
| Description: | Fatal error -Refresh2 function call of the OPC interface IOPCAsyncIO2 failed. Contact the Ipesoft's technical support. |
| Error: | OPCConnectToServer - FAILED, Server : 'ServerProgID' ! |
| Description: | Fatal error - it is not possible to connect to the OPC server. Check the OPC server parameters - the tab OPC in the configuration dialog box of the communication line and the tab Address in the configuration dialog box of the communication stations. |
| Error: | OPCAddGroup - FAILED, Group : 'OPCGroupName', Server : 'ServerProgID' ! |
| Description: | Fatal error - the OPC group did not managed to create by calling the AddGroup function of the OPC interface IOPCServer. Contact the Ipesoft's technical support. |
| Error: | ReadSync - FAILED, Item : 'OPCItemID' ! |
| Description: | Read call of the OPC interface IOPCSyncIO failed. |
| Error: | AddItems - FAILED (Group not connected), Item : 'OPCItemID' ! |
| Description: | The OPC item could not have been initialized, because creating the OPC group has failed. Contact the Ipesoft's technical support. |
| Error: | Write - FAILED (transactionID) , Item : 'OPCItemID' ! |
| Description: | Writing the value into the OPC server failed. Writing is performed by the Write function called by the interfaces IOPCSyncIO or IOPCAsyncIO2 according to the parameter Type (data access type) of the OPC group. |
| Error: | Write - FAILED, OPC Server is disconnected, Item :'OPCItemID' ! |
| Description: | The value could not have been written into the OPC server, because the OPC server is disconnected. |
| Error: | Group parameters error, Group: 'OPCGroupName', Server : 'ServerProgID' ! |
| Description: | OPC group configuration parameters are wrong. Check the OPC parameters - the tab Address in the configuration dialog box of particular communication station. |
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The error report described in the section Errors and problems are generated on a high level of OPC client. Most of the errors will also contain an error report on the COM/OPC level. Format of such error reports is as follows:
WARNING/ERROR: ServerProgID caused COM/OPC error ErrorCodeHexadecimal on CallDescription, Error string : ErrorDescription
For example:
WARNING: Matrikon.OPC.Simulation.1 caused COM/OPC error 80010108H on IOPCGroupStateMgt::GetState(), Error string : The object invoked has disconnected from its clients.
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