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OPC UA alarms and conditions 

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: 2025-02-17  ☃  Revision 077 • … Read More

Profile and facets 

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

Overview to OPC UA® with PLCnext Technology

Overview to OPC UA® with PLCnext Technology OPC Unified Architecture (UA) is a standardized protocol for industrial IT and OT communication. The following areas of OPC UA are integrated in PLCnext Technology and can be used in your application. OPC UA Server On request, an OPC UA® server provides an OPC UA® client… Read More

eUA Client diagnostics

eUA Client diagnostics Available from firmware version 2024.6 Overview Diagnostic information of the eUA Client is accessible via the eUA Server. The eUA Client object can be found in the server address space by the following path: Root → Objects → DeviceSet → Controller type (for… Read More

Configuration of the OPC UA® server with PLCnext Engineer 

Configuration of the OPC UA® server with PLCnext Engineer  You can configure the OPC UA® server with the software PLCnext Engineer. For more information about the configuration options refer to the section OPC UA Server in the Online Help of PLCnext Engineer. You can find the PLCnext Engineer Online Help within the software at the Help →… Read More

Further information on OPC UA® in PLCnext Technology

Further information on OPC UA® in PLCnext Technology See these additional topics  for further reference: Profile and facets shows all currently implemented facets, linked to the respective specifications Feature roadmap OPC UA shows which OPC UA® feature was implemented with which PLCnext Technology firmware release. Device-specific OPC UA settings shows the differences in… Read More

Module configuration of the OPC UA client

Module configuration of the OPC UA client The OPC UA client can be configured in PLCnext Engineer from version 2023.3. We recommend to use PLCnext Engineer for the configuration (see also Tutorial – OPC UA setup for PLCnext Control). The configuration can also be performed using an additional… Read More

Connection configuration

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 device information 

OPC UA device information  The Device Integration (DI) namespace In compliance with the “OPC UA for Devices” OPC UA Companion Specification, the eUA server provides the following nodes: Node Meaning DeviceManual Path or URL to the user manual. DeviceRevision General revision status of… Read More

Quickstart OPC UA server configuration

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… Read More