Quickstart Guide
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Industrial Systems Connection ...
OPC UA

OPC UA Client

7min

Note: This driver will be deprecated in a future release. We recommend using OPC UA Client Advanced.

Review the following information for setting up and configuring the OPC UA Client.

Manufacturing Connect Edge Compatible Series

Compatibility parameter

Compatible items

Driver type

Ethernet

Validated devices/series

  • Used to subscribe data from OPC UA servers.
  • Only sends a message to the broker if the value changes at the server level.
  • Subscription interval is defined at the driver level and does not have a polling interval at the tag level.

Replaced with Gen 2 driver

Note: The OPC UA client does not connect to the server with the Basic256Sha256-SE security policy.

Supported Servers

OPC UA Client

  • It provides better performance compared to other OPC UA Clients.
  • OPC UA Client with new design supports both poll and subscription mode.

Set up the PLC Device in Manufacturing Connect Edge DeviceHub



Parameter

Value

Type

OPC UA

Driver

OPC UA Client

Network Address

The device IP address

Network Port

4840

Certificate

Auto-generated

Private Key

Auto-generated

Configure the List of Registers

Browse for tags to add to this FreeTag device. See Browse Tags to learn more.

Alternatively, when you Add Tags, for Register Name map the OPC server tags to the client using this format: ns=1;s=tagname.

Example: ns=2;s=Demo.Static.Scalar.Boolean

The following data types are supported:

  • int32
  • bool
  • sbyte
  • byte
  • int16
  • uint16
  • int32
  • uint32
  • int64
  • uint64
  • float32
  • float64
  • string
  • dump
  • desc

Refer to the following tag parameters.