Micromod MOD: ICN OPC Server Users Guide - Manual (Page 25)

ICN OPC Server
Application Tutorial
3.2.3 Part 3 – ABB ICN OPC Client
8. Launch the ICN OPC Server Application if it was not running already. It will be launched
with your last saved database (for example boiler.icns) as shown below:
Figure 3 .15.
OPC Server
database with tags
• Do you notice that the OPC database is populated with tags from the MIF file
automatically? Also notice that the tags are shown with alias names.
Figure 3 .16.
OPC Live Data
9. View Live data by starting the built-in OPC client application:
• Select View - Monitor from the menu bar at the top. This will start the built-in
OPC client and show live data from the instrument in the Value column of the
OPC Server application. Refer to the figure above.
• The live data is read-only as this OPC client application and is mainly used for
testing the function of the OPC Server and the communication between the
hardware devices and the OPC Server tag database. It does not allow writing of the
same.
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