To monitor the data points of a OPC UA Server device or entity, you must add them to
the device or entity in Security Center.
Procedure
To add a data point to an OPC Client device or entity:
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From the Config Tool home page,
open the Plugins task.
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Select an OPC device or entity.
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In the Data points section, click Add a data
point ().
The Add a data point dialog box opens.
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Beside the Node ID field, click Open OPC server
browser ().
The
Select OPC node dialog box opens.
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Select a data point from the browser and click
Select.
In the Add a data point dialog box, the protocol
information is filled.
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Enter the rest of the information.
- Value type
- The type of information reported by the input (data point).
- Access level
- Indicates whether the selected data point is read-only or
read-write. This field is automatically displayed by the plugin
role.
- Unit name
- (Optional) The measurement unit of the data point.
- Unit symbol
- (Optional) The symbol representing the measurement unit.
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Click Add to add another data point or click
Add and Close.
The data point is displayed in the Data points
section.
To add multiple data point at the same time:
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In the Data points section, instead of clicking
Add a data point (), click () instead.
The Add data points dialog box opens.
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Expand the nodes and select the data points you want to add, and click
Add.
All selected data points are added at the same time.
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(Optional) Select the data points one by one and configure the Unit
name and Unit symbol.
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Click Apply.