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I'm working on a system with around 12 Channels and different PLCs with different KEPServerEX drivers.We converted a PLC program to run on a test 1756-L73 ControlLogix 5570 controller. I only had to update the Wonderware InTouch tags items/addresses in the database from something like (B3:7/3) to (B3[7].3) and everything seemed to work fine.Now we have the production PLC and its a 1769-L33ER CompactLogix 5370 Controller. Again, everything seemed to work until we tried to write to an address in the PLC. All addresses can be read but the only way to write to an address in this PLC is to create a tag in KEPServerEX and use the OPC quick client to change the value. I can then change the item in the InTouch DB to the new test KEPServerEX tag and that will work.None of the existing PLCs in the KEPServerEX configuration have tags configured. Just changing from a ControlLogix to CompactLogix requires tags to be added into KEPServerEX but only for writes?I hope I'm missing a setting or somethin

Hello all,   I tried to test KepwareEX 6.11 and find that TIA portal explorer hails that openness is not installed at the begining of explorer installation. I hope its only question of proper testing at this moment. Is there any workaround how to overcome that message and try it?   Thanks for answer.   MS

Hi everyone,   I have KEPServerEX6 and I need to change options in property editor. When I change option and click apply settings is confirmed but when I runtime connect the setings change to previous. Tell me why?

When attempting to activate my Kepserver Licence by loading a Request File to generate a Response File, I get the following error and no response file is generated.   Error: - callout failed with reason - Error processed during activation: 6011:Attribute Trusted Host Entity is required in the definition of {1}.   This is after repairing a Trusted Storage error by following CS313362 and CS293892. Installation is  now appearing as "new" with no activated license, and license key has been reset on MyKepware and is showing 1 activation available. No issues generating the request file. No Internet connection is available from the machine.

facing this error required solution   tried restarting TomCat and KepWare still of no use

Hi all, I am using Thingworx 8.4.3 and Kepware 6.6. I have established the connectiving between Thingworx and Kepware successfully. But somethime there is an error on Kepware "Device is not Responding", but I don't see any change in my signals. The quality of signals is good. I want to raise an alert/ alarms whenever this error occurs. Is there any way where I can store this error into some Tags on kepware and then fetch that tag to thingworx and then raise an alarm or from kepware itself an alram can be generated ?        Thank you!  

Hello, this is my first post, I search a solution to programmatically run an export 'xml' of all PLC from Kepware V5.21.   I search on porwershell via Get-Command without any result.   Someone already solve this please ?

There is an Major Disadvantage of the KepServerEX or OPC Aggregators is that, they can only connect to single Industrial Connection of Thingworx. Let's Say there are 3 environments (Dev, QA, PROD). As of now, using three VM's to Connect to each Single Env from KepServerEX.Isn't a way where all three KepServerEX can be run on the same VM such that VM cost can be Cut ?@paic @c_lowy @slangley @CarlesColl @VladimirN @AnnaAn ThanksShashi.

Hi,   I have issues with thing properties bound to remote Kepware tags. The Kepware tags are connected to OPC-UA endpoints and they all work and are updated as expected in the Quick OPC-UA client. The Industrial Connection status is connected and the bound properties display as healthy. But when the Kepware values change, the properties are not updated. Refreshing the thing properties does nothing, but when I save the thing, then the values are updated. The strange thing is this only happens on some bound tags and not all of them. The applicationkey is created with the admin user for testing purposes right now.   Does anyone have similar experiences? Regards JK

Hello, We are using MFA, and we've configured a connection to Kepserver with an asset and remotely bound properties to Kepserver tags. The connection pushes values every seconds (in monitoring section we view that we receive it every second), and we need to log those values even haven't changed.  Remoted bound properties Data Change Type property is set to Always, but QueryPropertyHistory service does't show a value for every second, only the changes. How can we get it? Thanks in advance

Hi Expert Community,I have an application that requires to read data using Modbus serial at a fix rate (for example every 5 minutes). The complete data read by Modbus should be published using IoT Gateway MQTT. However an additional requirement is that using the System tag for DemandPoll, the MQTT client should trigger a new Modbus acquisition and also get the new set of values published immediately.Can you suggest how the scan rate in Modbus and in IoTGateway should be configured?Regards,  

Is it possible to transfer a file using kepware to thingworx. we have a case where thingworx and file both are present in same network but thingworx is in cloud. There are csv files that are written after a set of interval on a local computer. we need to use the same data for visualizing in a mashup.

Hello Everyone,   We have applied a policy that has removed our administrator permissions.       Its possible to execute the application without admin rights?   Thanks a lot!      

Hello. I am trying to connect RF Receiver and Kepware. What's the best way to make this connection? Do I need to convert the signal to a protocol supported by Kepware?

Hello,       Is it possible to Read Json file and update Tag values in Kepware?. We have a legacy system which creates JSon files with the data and we would like to have this data in Kepware Tags.   Thanks & Best Regards, Gowtham K.    

Is there a way to get a demo license (more than 2 hours) so I can commission a new server with the latest kepware software? I don't want to have to take down production in order to do my commissioning. Other software has been able to provide a 30 day license or something.

Hello,           i am trying to connect ABB FLowx flow computer to Kepware OPC server- KEPServerEX V6.           Added it as OMNIFlow computer to KEPWARE OPC server with tags but with no success in collecting data from tags..           Can i get some info what to do or tutorial on this topic?

Hey all,    Hopefully someone might of had something similar happen to them. We have a number of mould machines, ranging from kraussmaffei, fanuc, engel etc....   We have a reoccurring issue where the kraussmaffei mould machine (Connected to Kepware via Euromap 63) gets shut down for batch changes or maintenance, After a couple hours, the whole of kepware will go down for all the other moulds.    We tested this by disabling kepware for the kraussmaffei machines, and not had any issues since. But we've been unable to narrow down, or really begin on what could be causing this. Any suggestions on where to begin? What to look out for in the event logs? What causes "bad data quality" to the point it breaks?

I'm new here and starting to work with Kepware. For this new site, in the Properties of the RTAC device, if we leave the Block Sizes, Internal Registers at the default setting of 32, the last 11 tags show "Unknown" Value in the Quick Client. If we change the setting to 16, there are 3 Unknown. At 8 there are 3 Unknown, but 9 there are 4. I've tried several other Register numbers and the Unknown tags varies up and down, with no discernible pattern.   We just can't determine the logic behind what is set in Internal Registers and how many tags show an Unknown value. We currently have the setting at 1 and it's showing all the tags.   Anyone know how to properly determine what the Internal Registers should be? I'm attaching 4 screenshots showing the Registers setting and the Tags that are Unknown.   Thanks! Mike    

  Error message is "Connection to ThingWorx failed. Platform = 168.131.31.193:80/Thingworx/WS, error = could not initialize a secure socket connection."   In thin situation, What can i do?     And, I want to know whether data is connected to kepware or not. When I see Channel1.Device1._System,  I think data is incoming to kepware but value don't change. And, when I see JNU_ENV_SVR.GW01, all value is 0. I don't know this is connecting to kepserver well.      

Hi, new here, and to Kepware, and I need to ask some questions.   I found a link to what should be a Kepware forum on this page, https://community.ptc.com/t5/All-PTC-Products/bd-p/allproducts, but the link actually goes to https://developer.vuforia.com/forum.   And that just doesn't look like it's the right place.   Thanks! Mike

Can anyone help solve the problem I'm having in using redundancy master?   when using Redundancy master, only the primary server can read data, when the primary server is down, the secondary server does not work. for the secondary server, it can only be read on the quick client as long as it fills in the prog id and remote machine name manually, whereas if you import tags via "device" in kepware, an error appears as shown in the picture. can anyone help solve this problem?

Hello,   I tried to connect with ThingWorx Kepware Server.However, it does not work. I connect to the composer locally by doing: http://127.0.0.1:8080/ThingworxHere is my configuration:   Does anyone have an idea of how to solve this issue?  

Hi, I am using Iot-gateway in Kepware, and I want to only send messages if they have quality set to true. I tried to use Advanced templates, but I could not find any guide anywhere on how to use the directives there. I tried this, but got an error.  {"timestamp": |SERVERTIMESTAMP|,"machine_ID": "m_id1","values": [|#each VALUES|{"id": "|TAG|", "v": |VALUE|, "q": |QUALITY|, "t": |TIMESTAMP| } |#unless @last|,|/unless| |#unless |QUALITY|="false"||/unless||/each|]}   Please help. 

H0w to solve the problem of import tags that appear notifications like this on kepware with OPC DA Client?