I'm still here..!! and I agree, I wish the OP would check back. I'm not technically in the "support" role, but it is one of the MAJOR issues with any tech support department... incomplete logs.
Oh well... bonnie, I recommended that version to the OP because he was using a rather OLD operating system. You may be able to take advantage of the newer DAServer (DASABCIP). Tell us about your problem.
Hi WW, thanks for the response. Here is the situation:
I'm quite familiar with AB FactoryTalk Historian, but am completely new to Wonderware. I'm using Wonderware Historian 10.0, and have the server and the client installed on the same PC (a VM) for testing. I am using RSLinx Gateway v2.59. The OS is Windows XP SP3. I'm trying to talk to some ControlLogix PLCs in the office (1756-L61 and 1756-L75).
Ultimately I will need to set up the historian to log analog data and discrete events, but am not there yet.
First of all, I'm confused about which IO Server to use. It seems the only IO Server on the CD listed under the "Allen Bradley" category that mentioned compatibility with ControlLogix was the ABCIP driver. I'm not sure which version it is. The documentation on the CD says the following:
"It can access data in PLC-5, SLC-500 and Logix-5000 Controller (emulating PLC-5 or SLC-500) from Ethernet connected to the ControlLogix Gateway"
The emulation method is the method i was attempting to read from the PLC, which involved mapping tags in RSLogix. When configuring the topic, there is a radio button for "Logix 5000", but it is always greyed out, and i am not sure why.
The topic i configured in this manner appeared to be working fine at first, as it seemed to connect and showed up in the active topics list in the IO server. But, When I used AdviseEx to attempt a read, the status would go to bad, with quality of 16#0018, which, if i'm understanding this right, comes out to a quality of 0 (bad), a substatus of 6 (comm failure), and a limit of 0 (not limited).
I was following this method:
http://fa.sammicomputer.co.kr/TECH/html/T000874.htm
It seems this is probably a dated method, so i thought there was an updated version of the IO server that could talk to CLX without emulation..
Eh... I guess that's it in a nutshell. Sorry for the disorganization!