# Best way to determine if OPC is on failover

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/best-way-to-determine-if-opc-is-on-failover/10290>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [July 29, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/best-way-to-determine-if-opc-is-on-failover/10290 "2015-07-29T16:59:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![bridress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/65b543/32.png) [@bridress](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bridress)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/best-way-to-determine-if-opc-is-on-failover/10290/1 "2015-07-29T16:59:22Z")

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I have two redundant servers running Kepware and configured on a single Ignition node with OPC-UA failover. Is there a good way in Ignition to determine which OPC server is providing data? I found that there is a tag I can read from Kepware which describes the data server provider but I’d like to be able to see this in the Ignition settings. The status OPC Connectios does not provide that level of detail.

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**Author:** ![Chris\_Taylor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/chris_taylor/32/3315_2.png) [@Chris\_Taylor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Chris_Taylor)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/best-way-to-determine-if-opc-is-on-failover/10290/2 "2015-07-30T18:52:04Z")

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HI Bridress

these type of tags are in the wish list and under review

[http://ideas.inductiveautomation.com/forums/255378-ignition-features-and-ideas/suggestions/6939421-add-gateway-tags-for-opc-servers](http://ideas.inductiveautomation.com/forums/255378-ignition-features-and-ideas/suggestions/6939421-add-gateway-tags-for-opc-servers)