Product specifications

Integrating OPC Servers into 800xA
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View the Control Connection aspect on the Pump object and select the Property
Info tab. Add a new property, Flow, with the type VT_R4. Click Apply.
6. Create a Property Signal Generator aspect on the Pump object and view the
aspect. Select the Flow property and select Sine Wave with default values.
7. To test the value, view the Control Connection Aspect and select the Property
View tab. Check Subscribe for live data, dynamic values should now appear in
the Value column.
8. You can now add other aspects to the object, e.g. a Trend Display or a Graphic
Display.
9. It is now possible to add more properties to the object by repeating step 6-7 or
to add more objects by repeating step 5-7.
Integrating OPC AE Servers
Configuring AE Connectivity
This section describes how to integrate third party OPC Alarms and Events servers
into 800xA. The integration of a third party OPC AE server requires some
knowledge about the server for the integration to be successful.
How to do this is described in the following steps:
• Creating an Event Collector Service Provider
• Creating a Collection Definition
• Performing a Category Upload
– Selecting Priority Mappings
– Selecting Category Mappings
• Source Object Interceptor (optional step)
• Adding Translations (optional step)
• Setting up a Redundant Server (optional step)
800xA supports integration of OPC AE Servers compliant to version 1.1 of the
specification. No interfaces marked as optional in the specification needs to be
supported.