AlfredoQuintero
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Hello:
Question for SCADA/HMI experts.
One of our customers is responsible for planning and selection of key technologies for manufacturing engineering for one of the largest automotive makers here. He is an OT (operational technologies) kind-of-guy, as opposed to an IT kind-of-guy (and therefore not familiar with IT technologies and perhaps keen to not to have to be too involved with his huge IT department).
He would like to be able to take advantage of the OPCUA technology (which is becoming ubiquitous in his company) to be able to monitor things that the IT people would normally monitor with IT tools (SNMP and what not), such as hard drive performance, free space in the hard disk, CPU load, if possible CPU temperature, and so on, through his OPCUA client SCADA applications.
I have been looking around and I cannot find such an OPCUA server product for Windows 10. Does anybody know of such a product? Is this idea completely crazy and therefore should I politely advice my customer to contact his IT people and find a way to have them take care of this kind of monitoring of SCADA and HMI infrastructure? Or, does he have a point and such an OPCUA server would be of value for manufacturers who need to maintain large number of Windows 10 computers.
Question for SCADA/HMI experts.
One of our customers is responsible for planning and selection of key technologies for manufacturing engineering for one of the largest automotive makers here. He is an OT (operational technologies) kind-of-guy, as opposed to an IT kind-of-guy (and therefore not familiar with IT technologies and perhaps keen to not to have to be too involved with his huge IT department).
He would like to be able to take advantage of the OPCUA technology (which is becoming ubiquitous in his company) to be able to monitor things that the IT people would normally monitor with IT tools (SNMP and what not), such as hard drive performance, free space in the hard disk, CPU load, if possible CPU temperature, and so on, through his OPCUA client SCADA applications.
I have been looking around and I cannot find such an OPCUA server product for Windows 10. Does anybody know of such a product? Is this idea completely crazy and therefore should I politely advice my customer to contact his IT people and find a way to have them take care of this kind of monitoring of SCADA and HMI infrastructure? Or, does he have a point and such an OPCUA server would be of value for manufacturers who need to maintain large number of Windows 10 computers.