Configurations in Operation—Exercises
Required Data
Exercise Name
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you the
required data that is used in the exercises below.
- Basic OPC Client Configuration.
- Detailed OPC Client Configuration.
General exercise for Basic OPC Client Configuration and
Detailed OPC Client
Configuration.
Main Exercise
Purpose: The purpose of these exercises is to show you how
to initiate data acquisition, trigger an event and view the effects in the
IFS/OPC Client event log as well as in IFS/Applications.
Windows:
Server Properties
Group Properties
Measurements
- Click the File menu and click Open.
- Browse for and select the configuration XML file you saved after the
Detailing Configuration Levels exercise.
- Open the Demo OPC Server and restore the tag list with your OPC
Configuration.
- Right click on the server you created and click
Properties. (Alternatively you can right click on the OPC server and
click Connect)
- On the OPC Configuration tab, click
Connect.
- Click OK. Observe that the yellow server icon is now green.
- Double click on the tag on PM-312-PA-001 in the OPC server and change the
value to 125. Note that the value is updated in the tag list in the OPC-client.
Also note that no event is triggered since the value 125 is below the first
interval.
- Change the value to 251. Note that that the On Value Interval is triggered
within the OPC client, details of which can be viewed in the event log in
the pane at the bottom of the client.
- Also note that the event message 'Operational Time:251' which was
predefined in the VB script on the corresponding event is displayed in the
event log pane.
- Change the value on the OPC Server to 300. Note that no event is
triggered since this value is below the sum of the first interval and second
interval.
- Change the value to 351. Note that that the On Value Interval is triggered
again within the OPC client, details of which can be viewed in the event log
in the pane at the bottom of the client.
- Also note that the event message 'Operational Time:351' which was
predefined in the VB script on the corresponding event is displayed in the
event log pane.
- Open the
Measurements window,
- Query for the following object: PM-312-PA-001.
- Click OK. Note that the record details in this window match the
input record parameters defined on the group subscriber as in the OPC
client.