OPC DA Client Driver - KEPServerEX OPC Servers

Overview

The OPC DA Client Driver and OPC Server KEPServerEX provide an easy and reliable way to connect disparate 3rd Party OPC DA Servers to your Client applications, including HMI, SCADA, Historian, MES, ERP, and countless custom applications.

With the OPC DA Client Driver and KEPServerEX you are now able to manage your operations through a single OPC Server. With our single server interface there is no need to learn the different nuances of other 3rd party servers, there is just the straight forward and easy to configure KEPServerEX.

OPC DA Client Driver Diagram

*Note: For Oracle MES and MOC users, this driver will not only allow you to bring Kepware OPC operations into your business applications but all other 3rd party OPC operations

Protocols

Supported Protocols

Device	Note
OPC Data Access (DA) 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0	Does not support 3.0 advanced operations

Features

Specific Driver Features

Specific

Provides a single, reliable connection point to access data from multiple OPC servers on local and remote machines.
Optimize performance of OPC servers through OPC groupings that may be different than those required or allowed by your clients.
Connection monitoring and reconnect behavior can be configured for each OPC Server.
Provides connectivity to remote OPC servers for clients that do not support DCOM.
Allow connectivity to multiple OPC servers from clients that do not support multiple connections or handle multiple connections well.
Allow connectivity to OPC servers using different interfaces that are supported by clients, such as DDE, Wonderware SuiteLink, GE Fanuc NIO etc.)
Supports update by exception (Watchdog)
Automatically import OPC Server Items

General

Multi-threaded design ensures optimum performance
Full Time On-line operation allows on the fly changes
Channel Diagnostics with protocol display
OPC Diagnostic feature provides a real-time and historical view of OPC events that occur between any OPC client and the server
Additional System Tags provided for monitoring and diagnostics
Free OPC Test Client provided
Modem support included on all Serial port drivers
CSV file import and export of Server tags for easy configuration on large projects
Auto Demotion of Devices
Supports running as a Windows service
Supports direct scaling of device data which allows raw device data to be converted to engineering units for OPC client applications
Automatically backup project file on save
Includes a built-in User Manager that allows complete control over what types of functionality each individual user can access
Allows the user to specifically select a NIC card for use with any Ethernet driver or serial driver running in Ethernet Encapsulation mode
Supports up to 16 concurrent serial ports and PC card configurations

Client

OPC DA 1.0
OPC DA 2.05a
OPC DA 3.0

DDE CF-Text
NetDDE
AdvancedDDE
FastDDE for Wonderware’s Intouch

3rd Party Client Support

To see a list of HMI's and Clients that we support go to our HMI / Client Support page.

Required

Required Software and Hardware

Supported Operating Systems

Windows 2000 (SP4 or greater) (32 bit and 64 bit)
Windows Server 2003 (SP2 or greater) (32 bit and 64 bit)
Windows XP (SP2 or greater)
Windows Vista Business/Ultimate (32 bit and 64 bit)
Windows Server 2008 (32 bit and 64 bit)

PC Hardware

Minimum

400 Mhz Pentium CPU
128 Megs of RAM
100 Megs of Free Hard Drive Space

Recommended

600 Mhz Pentium CPU
512 Megs of RAM
100 Megs of Free Hard Drive Space

VB

Visual Basic

KEPServerEX Visual Basic OPC Client
Complex and Simple Visual Basic OPC Client Examples
Using Modems and Visual Basic with KEPServerEX.
Download the Modem and VB Example with Source Code
Knowledge Base

Help

Help/Links

Revisions

OPC DA Client Driver Revisions

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.300.449.0 (08/29/08)

OPC DA Client (4.1.21.0)

- New Driver

OPC DA Client Driver OPC Server