How to Connect Third-Party Clients

In this tutorial we will show how to use third party OPC-UA clients when connecting to our OPC UA server.

We use the OPC URL opc.tcp://localhost:4841 in the following tutorial. This URL is the one exported by the Demo Server.

You may connect to the OPC-UA Demo Server with any OPC-UA client. We are using the following clients in this tutorial:

UAExpert

After starting UAExpert, click on the plus icon button.

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Double click on “Double click to Add Server” in the popup window.

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Enter endpoint URL ‘opc.tcp://localhost:4841’ and click OK.

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Expand the subtree under endpoint URL, select ‘None – None’ and click OK.

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The left pane shows the OPC-UA server name. Connect to the OPC-UA server by clicking on the connect icon as shown in the following screenshot.

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The address space is shown in the left pane after connecting. The right pane and the upper pane shows attributes of selected node.

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ProSys OPCUA

Start the ProSys OPCUA client application. Enter Endpoint URL and click on the arrow icon.

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The following screenshot show the popup that appears after clicking the arrow icon. Select security mode ‘None’ and security policy ‘None’. Click OK.

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The address space is shown in the left pane after connecting. The middle pane shows attributes of selected node and the right pane shows references of selected node.

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dataFEED OPCUA

Start the dataFEED OPCUA client

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Double click to add session. Add the following Endpoint URL in the popup window: ‘opc.tcp://localhost:4841’ and click OK.

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After connecting, the middle pane shows the Address Space tree and the left pane shows the attributes of the selected node.

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