Can anyone help me with the syntax for referring to a tag on an OPC server which is configured in the root of an FTView application?
I'm trying to get familiar with setting up an OPC server on a test system before installing it on the live system.
My setup is as follows:
FTView SE Distributed Application v10
OPC server is the Matrikon Simulation server - example item name on that server is Random.Int4
In FactoryTalk Directory, I right click on my application root, selected the Add Server - OPC DA Server option. Named it GTK_OPC_TEST and selected the server which the Matrikon OPC server is installed on (GTK-LD-SRV in this case) as the "Computer that will run the server" and was able to browse the server ProgID's and selected the Simulation server.
With that config in place, if I view the server status in FTAdmin Console it shows as "Active"
Now I created a test display and tried using {/GTK_OPC_TEST::Random.Int4} as an address for a numeric display object, but no luck. I've tried a bunch of different combos like /GTK_OP_TEST[]::Random.Int4, etc. and no luck.
The Matrikon server does not show an Access Path when I browse the tags using Matrikon's browse tool. I tried browsing in FTView, but the server doesn't show up, I saw a thread post indicating if you had the server installed on the FT Directory node then browsing might work, but we don't want to do that on our system.
I'm hoping I'm just missing a \ or : or something like that here. I'm actually trying to get these into HMI tags, but I couldn't find a way to view the value of an HMI tag from the HMI tag editor, so figured would test the addressing syntax on a display first where it is quick to test, then create the HMI tags later.
Any tips appreciated,
-Greg
I'm trying to get familiar with setting up an OPC server on a test system before installing it on the live system.
My setup is as follows:
FTView SE Distributed Application v10
OPC server is the Matrikon Simulation server - example item name on that server is Random.Int4
In FactoryTalk Directory, I right click on my application root, selected the Add Server - OPC DA Server option. Named it GTK_OPC_TEST and selected the server which the Matrikon OPC server is installed on (GTK-LD-SRV in this case) as the "Computer that will run the server" and was able to browse the server ProgID's and selected the Simulation server.
With that config in place, if I view the server status in FTAdmin Console it shows as "Active"
Now I created a test display and tried using {/GTK_OPC_TEST::Random.Int4} as an address for a numeric display object, but no luck. I've tried a bunch of different combos like /GTK_OP_TEST[]::Random.Int4, etc. and no luck.
The Matrikon server does not show an Access Path when I browse the tags using Matrikon's browse tool. I tried browsing in FTView, but the server doesn't show up, I saw a thread post indicating if you had the server installed on the FT Directory node then browsing might work, but we don't want to do that on our system.
I'm hoping I'm just missing a \ or : or something like that here. I'm actually trying to get these into HMI tags, but I couldn't find a way to view the value of an HMI tag from the HMI tag editor, so figured would test the addressing syntax on a display first where it is quick to test, then create the HMI tags later.
Any tips appreciated,
-Greg