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Hi, Does anyone know the reason why redundancy master frequently failed as error reported in the log below We has redundant OPC client that pulling data from 2 redundancy master.    10/31/2019 2:37:29.902 PM Error AdvDsOPCConnector.exe (3356) Unable to retrieve status for server 'Kepware.KEPServerEX.V6' on primary machine '105.168.4.3'. Server communications has been lost.10/31/2019 2:37:29.902 PM Information AdvDsOPCConnector.exe (3356) Disconnected from 'Kepware.KEPServerEX.V6' on primary machine '105.168.4.3'.10/31/2019 2:37:32.454 PM Error AdvDsOPCConnector.exe (3356) Unable to retrieve status for server 'Kepware.KEPServerEX.V6' on secondary machine '105.168.4.7'. Server communications has been lost.10/31/2019 2:37:32.455 PM Information AdvDsOPCConnector.exe (3356) Disconnected from 'Kepware.KEPServerEX.V6' on secondary machine '105.168.4.7'.10/31/2019 2:38:14.623 PM Information AdvDsOPCConnector.exe (3356) Connected to 'Kepware.KEPServerEX.V6' on primary machine '105.168

Dear community,   from Thingworx I am binding to Kepware tags, reading and writing. This works fine in general but I encountered an issue with special characters. My current example is this string: "Mis.Lác.Cond". When setting this (manually or by code) Kepware receives "Mis.Lác.Cond". In Kepware as well as in Thingworx the tag/property is defined as String.   The only report about this I could find is this article  but this does not help me as Kepware and Thingworx are running on the same machine.   Any help is greatly appreciated. Benny

how to connect KepServerEx6 to mysql workbench database ? please suggest some documents or tutorial thanks

According to the latest sigma tile documentation, if I open an opc client for kepware using the SenseHat_v5 opf, I should see entries for ErrorCode and VibrationAlert.   For the opf file linked to from the LearnKepServerEXUsingSigmaTileGuide, these two tags do not appear. Any advice?

I’m trying to see if a KEPServerEX server can read some points from a Oracle database and then write them to a Wonderware Historian.   I found the Kepware client connectivity guide and it sounds like you can have a KEPServerEX write to a Wonderware Historian.   Can it write to more than one Wonderware Historian at the same time? Can it do store and forward for a Historian that is down for a time? Can it force write values that have not changes for a time? After a certain amount of time the Wonderware Historian will reply with a null value if the value has not changed or been undated with a new date time stamp.   https://www.kepware.com/getattachment/b024c169-24a5-4708-80e8-8ccb7c4d2106/kepserverex-wonderware-historian-guide.pdf

Hi, I am looking for some documentation on the data types that are available when using complex tags in Kepware. I need the enum value as well as the name.   <Item><Name>name</Name><Value DataType="5">2</Value><Quality>192</Quality><TimeStamp>1000</TimeStamp></Item   I would like to know all the options for <Value DataType="5"> and the data type they map to. Thanks, Brandon

I am having the Kepserver license but i am unable to install the licensed version of Kepware . Anyone please respond immediately.

Hi, Is it possible to update kepware store and forward data to a stream? In my usecase, all live data are logged into streams every 1 minute. When Thingworx and Kepware connection is broken and reestablished after a few hours, I need to update the streams with the lost data so that I can avoid data loss. Kepware store and forward works good for value streams. How could I get the lost data back in case of disconnection. With regards Yedukrishnan U

Hi, Is it possible to store kepware data in a database? I want to retrieve data from DB with SQL commands.    When connectivity with Thingworx and kepware are interrupted, I need to store data from kepware to database and retrieve the data to Thingworx when connection is reestablished.  Store and forward functionality in Kepware can automatically send data to Thingworx when connection is reestablished but it don't have any control as we need to calculate the KPIs based on the retrieved data and sync with the existing data.   With regards Yedukrishnan U

Hi Everyone,    We have two different kepware on separate place which is pointing to same PLC. In that one of the kepware having both Manufacturing Suite and Data logger license but second kepware having only one data logger license. Now for both of them We have implemented data logger concept and according to tag value change we are logging data into SQL database. It is working fine for first kepware but incase of second it start giving tag quality as bad after 2 hour and we need to restart runtime service of that kepware. and because of bad quality tag data logger is not working as expected even though it has data logger license.   So, Is there any way to without restarting runtime services we will get actual tag value and on change of that value we can log updated tag value on Database ?   Also, it is possible to connect second datalogger to first kepware(because first kepware having both license) so it will work fine ?   Could you please help me on this. &n

Pre-conditions: installed Manufacturing Apps   1. Monitor Kepware Server:1) In Controls Advisor of MFG Apps, add Gateway Server.2) Thingworx will create Industrial Thing with same name, with template of PTC.Factory.KepServerThingTemplate.3) Thingworx will also create Industrial Connection accordingly, with suffix of -GW for Thing Name, its template is IndustrialGateway.4) The property of isConnected of Industrial Thing or Industrial Connection can be used to identify status of Kepware Server.   2. Monitor Device(PLC):1) In Controls Advisor of MFG Apps, click "Discover Devices", when it's done, Thingworx will create a Thing for each Kepware device, device name = Gateway Name + "_" + Channel Name + "." + Device Name, with template of PTC.Factory.DeviceThingTemplate,and its IndustrialThing = Industrial Connection, and its OPCDAThingName = Gateway Server in MFG Apps(IndustrialThing can only bind with normal Tags, OPCDAThingName can bind with system tags)2) The property of Enabled

Hey ptc community,   for some testing I need to simulate some data. I was told that I can use the Keepserver for this. I found the options but I don´t know how I can connect the Keepserver to my local Thingworx and start to simulate data there. I found this to start a simulation: https://community.ptc.com/t5/ThingWorx-Developers/How-do-I-simulate-random-tag-values-against-a-device-in-kepware/td-p/545582And I created a simulator, but how can I make a connection?Maybe someone did it before and can help me with my problem?Thanks

Dear Community!   we have S7-PLC here connected to a KepServer transfering the data to ThingWorx. All the data connection, management and so on is working great but still an issue with Timestamp-Tags of type Date.  OPC-UA and I think also the KepServer define UTC as std. Timezone for all Timestamp data, they do not attach timezone information to the timestamp. So when Thingworx recieves the data from KepServer it takes the data as UTC and stores it to the bound properties. But our S7-PLCs clock is running at local time, not UTC. So all timestamps recieved by ThingWorx are based on the wrong timezone. I looked around if there is any possibility to "shift" or adjust this inside Kepware.   Our current only possible workaround seems to be: - Define two Date Properties for the Thing, one bound to the Kepserver Tag and a subscription to calculate the shift and write the correct value to the second one.   Any other ideas??    

Hello,   I have a problem when I try to connect Fanuc 30i-A PMC with Industrial Connectivity. The failure is the next:     I selected the appropiate channel and device, I downloaded Fanuc focas library I and II and I installed on Windows System32 folder, but the problem continue. Anyone knows about these libraries or how to connect with Fanuc PLC/CNC?   Thank you in advance BR,   Luis

Created a connection from Kepware to a 3rd party OPC server, and connection is normally running. Every evening the connection goes down, and Kepware returns the error: 'Channel Failed to connect | Status Description='Could not establish a network connection to remote server' Status Code=0x80AC0000' In the morning Kepware returns the error : ‘Socket error occurred connecting. | Error = 10061’ Details=’Impossibile stabilire la connessione. Rifiuto persistente del computer di destinazione’. --> Not possible to establish the connection, Destination computer deny And then, for each Tag, the following error: … Add item failed on device. | Tag address ….. Status description = ‘The node id refers to a node that does not exist in the server address space’ Status code = 0x80340000 In the Manufacturing Apps the device is in error and data are not good. Restarting the KepServerEX 6.6 Runtime service the connection is running again. Which is the right way to manage this case? Are there s

Hi all,   I am trying to communicate ThingWorx Foundation (Hosted Trial for 90 days) with the ThingWorx Industrial Connectivity.   I am using the guide: https://developer.thingworx.com/en/resources/guides/model-allen-bradley-plc In the step 3 the field "host" in the image below show me the link "pp-18011714014o.devportal.ptc.io" and my question is:   Where I find my link to fill this field?

Hey everyone,                     I am collecting data from a furnace Plc, the data's collected from the machine is sent to the thingworx platform through kepware, now the issue is when i continuously log the data from the machine, the data collected at the beginning vanishes after a particular period of time.       Regards, Deepak Rahul 

My scenario is that my kepserver is in local timezone and Thingworx instance is in UTC timezone. How can I get the difference between the timezone in Thingworx so that I can convert the date time in machine timezone itself.   With regards Yedukrishnan U

Hello Developers, We are facing some problems trying to connect the Siemens power monitoring device "PAC3200" with KEPserverEX 6.5, using the Modbus TCP/IP protocol, the basic configuration are done using its manuals (attached) but we still have a Bad Quality in the tags. This is basic configuration for the device:   Device Configuration For the tag: Tag Configuration Just a tag example from the PAC manual:PAC3200 Variable This is a variable that we can use the function code 0x03 and 0x04 (page 40). I tried to use the address 400001, 30001, 300001, disable the zero-based-addressing, modbus-byte-order and nothing works.  Note: I can ping the device with no issues.   Kind Regards.        

I am new to Kepware, I want to configure IoT Gateway to send all the data to external REST end point listening on Splunk to collect the data. However i have configured IoT gateway, hence i think i am missing some steps here,please help me with following queries,   Does IoT Gateway requires additional license ? How do we validate data started sending from IoTGateway? I have received the following in log, does it mean that its connected and sending data ? Date Time Level Source Event7/22/2019 12:02:15 PM Information KEPServerEX\IoT Gateway IoT Gateway using JRE at [C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_221].7/22/2019 12:02:16 PM Information KEPServerEX\IoT Gateway Running with Java 1.8.0_221 [Oracle Corporation Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM version 25.221-b11].7/22/2019 12:02:22 PM Information IoT Gateway Connection restored to server: '127.0.0.1:57212'. Reinitializing server configuration.7/22/2019 12:38:58 PM Warning Licensing Feature IoT Gateway is time limited and will expire at 7/2

Hello,   I am a starter with this software and trying to connect KepWare and Thingworx. We followed the manual but caný get connected. We get the following error-message:   "Error ThingWorx Native Interface  Connection to ThingWorx failed. | Platform localhost:443/Thingworx/WS, error: could not initialize a secure socket connection."   See picture   Is there anyone who can help us with this?

Running state has been configured depending from the property ‘State’ property read from Kepware, State=3 means Running. The property value is correct, and the asset is in Running status but the status week table is not correct. It shows ‘Not Configured’. (see attachment) Any idea? Many thanks! Martina      

Hi, I am using ThingWorx 8.2. I wanted to change the data type of the Kepware Thing in which I have binded the property.  I was able to change it when I was using 8.0Version but once I upgraded to 8.2 I am not able to change the data type of the tag in ThingWorx. The option is disabled.   Please help me to change the data type.   Thanks, Shalini V.

Hello All,   I have a set of data coming from industrial gateway to ThingWorx using Manufacturing Apps Suite and we are successfully polling machine data.  We are using kepware where machine data is pushed initially.    We have a tag called Diameter. The data type of the tag on Kepware side is Float type. On the ThingWorx side, the tag is bound to a thing property of data type Number.   The issue that I am facing is that, For example at Kepware we can see the value of the Diameter tag as 1.6. But when we receive this data in the ThingWorx property, the value is 1.600000023841858.   I would like to understand the reason behind this behavior and also how I can fix this issue and get correct values.   Appreciate all help.   Thanks & Regards, Madhumita

Hi KC,           Tell me where i can find the KepserverEx software to download for licensing and the procedures or installation document for the kepware (How to Download and Install).   Related to post