OPC UA Historical Access (HA) Available from 2019.6 Standard OPC UA® HA enables the OPC UA® clients to access the historical data of the PLCnext Technology DataLogger. You can call selected variables from a database using OPC UA® HA. To use OPC UA® HA for the data of GDS variables, the variables must be present in at least one… Read More
OPC UA discovery/connection options Note: The OPC UA client and server use the OpenSSL library to validate X.509 certificates using the OpenSSL flag X509_V_FLAG_X509_STRICT. As firmware 2024.0 LTS is updated to OpenSSL 3.0, the X.509 certificate validation became more strict, especially for non self-signed certificates. This may cause the server to return… Read More
Global Data Space The GlobalDataSpace namespace All programs and variables from the IEC 61131 context are displayed in the http://phoenixcontact.com/OpcUA/PLCnext/GlobalDataSpace/ namespace. Via the namespace, the corresponding NamespaceIndex can be determined from the NamespaceArray. The NamespaceIndex is a numeric value for identification of the namespace. It is saved in the… Read More
Quickstart OPC UA server configuration Tutorial video Note: Tutorial videos are embedded from the Phoenix Contact Technical Support YouTube channel. With playing an embedded YouTube video in this platform, you accept the YouTube Terms & Conditions. Even showing the video previews on this page depends on your personal settings. To… Read More
Profile and facets The eUA Server implements the Embedded 2017 UA Server Profile and supports the following facets: Facets: Global Certificate Management Server Facet Historical Raw Data Server Facet A & C Alarm Server Facet File Access Server Facet DI BaseDevice… Read More
OPC UA Server On request, an OPC UA® server provides an OPC UA® client with process data and variable values from a running application. The PLCnext Control devices contain an embedded OPC UA® server (eUA). In addition to the runtime, it is integrated in the controller. It enables access to components, programs, function blocks, structures and… Read More
Adding External Information Models In this topic, we describe the features that allow the integration of external information models into the embedded OPC UA server of PLCnext: First, the storage of the required NodeSet.xml files is described Then the instance NodeSet.xml as a special form is explained. We show how… Read More
Introduction to information models The PLCnext Technology eUA server provides these IEC 62541-5 compliant information models: External information models Alarms and conditions Device information Historical data access File access Global Data Space Common OPC UA terminology This topic describes some common OPC UA… Read More
Connection configuration Note: The OPC UA client and server use the OpenSSL library to validate X.509 certificates using the OpenSSL flag X509_V_FLAG_X509_STRICT. As firmware 2024.0 LTS is updated to OpenSSL 3.0, the X.509 certificate validation became more strict, especially for non self-signed certificates. This may cause the server to return the… Read More
OPC UA alarms and conditions Alarms You can exchange alarm and status messages between a program and the eUA server. For all details, please refer to the Alarms via OPC UA section. • Published/reviewed: 2025-12-18 ☃ Revision 087 • … Read More
