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Tech Note 377 - Configure FSGateway For OPC Client To Suitelink Server

This document provides instructions for configuring communication between an OPC client and a SuiteLink server using FactorySuite Gateway. It describes adding a SuiteLink object for the SuiteLink server, adding a topic object for the server's topic, configuring the OPC client to connect to FactorySuite Gateway, creating user-defined attributes mapped to registers on the SuiteLink topic, and deploying the configuration. The configuration enables the OPC client to access data from the SuiteLink server via FactorySuite Gateway.

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Tech Note 377 - Configure FSGateway For OPC Client To Suitelink Server

This document provides instructions for configuring communication between an OPC client and a SuiteLink server using FactorySuite Gateway. It describes adding a SuiteLink object for the SuiteLink server, adding a topic object for the server's topic, configuring the OPC client to connect to FactorySuite Gateway, creating user-defined attributes mapped to registers on the SuiteLink topic, and deploying the configuration. The configuration enables the OPC client to access data from the SuiteLink server via FactorySuite Gateway.

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Tech Note 377


Configuring FactorySuite® Gateway for Communication Between an
OPC Client and a SuiteLink™ Server

All Tech Notes and KBCD documents and software are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. See the Terms of Use
for more information.

Topic#: 002044
Created: October 2004

Introduction

This Technote can be used as a reference to configuring communication between any OPC Client
and any SuiteLink Server.

FactorySuite Gateway (FSGateway) is an application that acts as a protocol converter which can be
used to link clients and data sources that communicate using different data access protocols.

This technote explains the configuration required to enable OPC Client access to a SuiteLink IO
Server.

Assumptions

 Industrial Aplication Server's OPC Proxy Object is used as the OPCClient and Wonderware's
MBENET IO Server as the SuiteLink Server for this example.

 FSGateway is on the same node as the platform that contains the OPCClient object in IAS.

 The MBENET IO Server will be on a different node and will be configured with a topic named
"quantum" that will point to a PLC. Configuration of the MBENET IO Server is outside the
scope of this tech note.

 This Technote assumes a thorough knowledge of Industrial Application Server and


Wonderware IO Servers.

Configuration of FSGateway and Industrial Application Server's OPC Proxy object is explained in the
following section.

Configuring FSGateway

1. Launch the ArchestrA System Management Console (SMC).

2. Expand the DAServer Manager icon.

3. Expand the Local/ArchestrA.FSGateway.1 and highlight Configuration (under


ArchestrA.FSGateway.1).

4. Right-click Configuration and select Add SuiteLink Object from the sub-menu.

You can rename the SuiteLink Object at this point. For this example, we chose

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MBENET_OPC as the name of our SuiteLink Object.

• The Server Name is the name of your SuiteLink Server (mbenet).

• The Server Node is the name of the computer where the SuiteLink server is installed.

5. Save the configuration by clicking the disk icon in the upper right corner:

FIGURE 1: SAVE THE CONFIGURATION

6. Right-click the MBENET_OPC SuiteLink object and select Add Topic Object.

You can rename the topic object at this point. For this example, we chose quantum as the
name of our topic object because the MBENET IOServer has a topic named quantum that is
configured to communicate to the PLC.

Note: if the name of the topic object is different from the name of the topic configured in
the SuiteLink server, you will need to check the Change Topic Name box and enter the
topic name configured in the SuiteLink Server.

7. Save the configuration by clicking on the disk icon in the upper right corner.

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FIGURE 2: SAVE THE MBENET_OPC CONFIGURATION

The FactorySuite Gateway configuration is now complete.

Configuring Industrial Application Server

1. Launch the ArchestrA IDE and create a new galaxy or connect to an existing galaxy.

• If this is a new Galaxy, create a new instance of a Platform, Engine, Area, and OPCClient
Object.

• If this is an existing Galaxy that already contains a Platform, Engine, and Area, you will
need to create a new instance of an OPCClient Object.

The deployment view should now look like Figure 3 (below):

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FIGURE 3: OPCCLIENT DEPLOYMENT VIEW

2. Right-click the OPCClient object and select Open.

3. Select the General tab then select ArchestrA.FSGateway.1 from the Server Name
dropdown list.

Leave the default settings for the remaining General Tab configuration fields:

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FIGURE 4: GENERAL

4. Select the Scan Group tab.

5. Add a scan group by selecting the + at the top right.

6. Enter a Scan Group name and an update interval.

For this example we will use PLC as the scan group name with an update interval of 1000
ms.

7. Click the disk icon (upper right) to save and close the OPCClient object:

FIGURE 5: SAVE THE CONFIGURATION

8. Right-click the $UserDefined template from within the Template Toolbox.

9. Select New/Instance.

10. Rename the new instance to PLC_Registers and drag it under the Area.

The deployment view should now look like Figure 6 (below):

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FIGURE 6: DEPLOYMENT VIEW - PLC REGISTERS

11. Right-click the PLC_Registers object and select Open.

12. Select the UDAs tab and create a UDA named R400001 with a Data Type of Integer:

FIGURE 7: ADD UDA

13. Select the Extensions tab and select R400001 within the Extendable Attributes list.

14. Place a check in the Input/Output extension checkbox and enter

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OPCClient.PLC.mbenet_opc.quantum.400001 in the Source field.

Note: The source field is made up of the following: <OPCClient object name>.<OPCClient
object Scan Group>.<FSGateway SuiteLink object name>.<FSGateway Topic object
name>.<PLC Register>

15. Click the disk icon (upper right) to save and close the OPCClient object:

FIGURE 8: SAVE THE OPCCLIENT OBJECT CONFIGURATION

16. Perform a Cascade deploy of the Platform.

17. To view the value of the register in the PLC, right click PLC_Registers and select View in
Object Viewer.

18. When Object Viewer appears, right-click R400001 under the Attribute Name column then
select Add to Watch:

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FIGURE 9: OBJECT VIEWER WATCH PANE

G. Alldredge

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