OPC Server

[Gavageroast]

Hello All,

 Developing an application that uses an OPC Server.  Would like to get the status of the server, along with any errors or failures into my Labview GUI.  Not sure how to accomplish this.  Shared variables from server?  Application reference? Data Socket?  Please advise.  Thanks in Advance.

[rolfk]

What type of OPC server? You have basically two very different OPC standards. The first is OPC Classic and the latest is OPC UA. OPC Classic is pretty much legacy but there is still quite some hardware and software out there that uses it. OPC UA is the newest standard and NI sells an OPC UA Toolkit that lets you access such servers with its OPC UA Client functions.

I'm working on an alternative implementation of the OPC UA Toolkit but it is not yet finished.