The Dialog of Server Parameters

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The Dialog of Server Parameters

The Dialog of Server Parameters

Server parameters are set in the editor:

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In the General settings section, the following parameters are set (see also Operations in Dialogs of Parameters ):

mbul   Comment – a comment to the server configuration

mbul   Open window from tray – if TRUE (the default value), opening the server window from the taskbar notification area is enabled, if FALSE, disabled (see Server Auto-Launch at Client Connection )

mbul Precision - the number of decimal places when presented to the OPC client.

mbul Driver thread timeout - with this period, it is checked whether it is necessary to poll devices in the node or if there are new write commands.

mbul   Password security – if FALSE (the default value), editing the configuration is not secured by a password. If TRUE, the Password parameter is available to set a password;

mbul   Password – if this parameter is selected, the button multi_img80 is displayed:

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Click that button to open the Set a password dialog:

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The tools of the dialog:

mbul   Password – the textbox to set a password

mbul   Confirm – the textbox to confirm the password that is set in the Password textbox

mbul   OK – the command of reversible prohibition of editing the configuration. If editing is disabled, the root group Server cannot be dropped down, and its properties are not displayed. Only commands New, Open and Make starting are available in the ‘Configuration File’ menu .

In order to enable editing such a configuration, execute the Enable editing command from the server context menu:

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Upon this command, the following dialog is displayed (in that dialog, type the password and click OK):

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A reversible prohibition of editing can be cancelled. To do this, assign FALSE to the Password security parameter.

mbul   Cancel – this command closes the Input password dialog

mbul   Prohibit editing – the command of nonreversible prohibition of editing the configuration (such a prohibition comes to effect after saving and reloading the configuration). Upon this command, the following warning is displayed:

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To cancel the procedure, click Cancel. To set the prohibition, click OK.

If the prohibition is set, the message about impossibility to edit a configuration is displayed after right-clicking the Server group:

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Nonreversible prohibition cannot be cancelled.

In the Log section, the following parameters of the server log are set:

mbul   Use – enable/disable writing to the log file (global permission/prohibition of the server log). If Use=TRUE, the next tools are available:

mbul   Maximal size, kB – a log size (100 kB by default; the limit size is 10 MB)

mbul   Information messages – enable/disable writing of messages displayed at the System messages tab (see Run-Time Interface )

mbul   Errors – enable/disable writing of error messages to the log (for example, about connection errors)

mbul   Command queries – enable/disable writing of messages displayed at the Trace IO tab (see Run-Time Interface )

mbul   Manual operations (WRITE) – enable/disable writing of messages about manual setting a value (directly in the server shell)

mbul   Script messages – enable/disable writing of messages displayed at the Messages from protocols tab (see Run-Time Interface )

In the OPCDA Server section, the following parameters are set:

mbul   Conversion of type Int64 (UInt64) string by default; conversion to int32 or int64 is available as well

mbul   Disabling polling when there are no active tags when this setting is enabled, if the OPC server no longer has active  OPC DA tags (all clients have unsubscribed from receiving the values of all tags), then the OPC server polling stops completely.

In the OPCUA Server section, the following parameters are set:

mbul   Connection – the default value is FALSE, that is, the built-in OPC UA Server is not connected. If Connection=TRUE, the built-in OPC UA Server is connected, and the following server configuration parameters are available:

mbul   Disable polling when no clients - when this setting is enabled, if the OPC server has no connected UA clients, polling in the OPC server is completely stopped.

Note. If uses simultaneous disabling of polling when there are no connections via UA and DA, then polling will go on if there are clients on one of these interfaces. If polling is disabled on only one interface (DA or UA), then the polling state is determined by the presence of clients on this interface. For example, if polling is disabled for the OPC DA server, and this setting is disabled for OPC UA, then polling will only occur if there are connections from OPC DA clients, and vice versa.

mbul   Port – a port of the built-in OPC UA Server

mbul   Connection Control - when enabled, the OPC UA server is monitored and reinitialized in case of failures. When the setting is turned on, the Сontrol timeout field appears - with this period attempts are made to connect to the TCP port, to monitoring of the work, in case of failure - the UA server is reinitialized.

mbul   Password access – if TRUE, login and password are required to access the server

mbul   User name – login

mbul   Password – password. Upon the command multi_img87 of that line, the following dialog is displayed:

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In that dialog, a password must be typed both in the Password textbox and in the Confirm textbox.

If the Show flag is off, asterisks are displayed instead of password letters. If the flag is on, the letters themselves are displayed:

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In the IEC104  Server section, the following parameters are set:

mbul   Connection – the default value is FALSE, that is, the built-in IEC104 Server is not connected. If Connection=TRUE, the built-in IEC104 Server is connected, and the following server configuration parameters are available:

mbul   IP port – a port of the server

mbul   Common address ASDU – station address

In the MQTT-Client section

mbul   MQTT Client - settings of the MQTT client.