# How do you simulate tags for testing?

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The simplest thing is to just use memory tags. You can even get fancy and write timer events to pretend to be PLC code and drive selected memory tags as if they were live.

If by chance you have an existing AB Logix example you want to play with, you could run my Ethernet/IP module in trial mode to pretend to have the same tags. See this:

> [@AB PLC tag import/export](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ab-plc-tag-import-export/33050/4):
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> Start in your gateway’s configuration section, under the OPC Server’s “Device Connections” and click on “Create new Device…”: Select the Ethernet/IP Class1 Host Device: Give it a name and serial number… … and a slot number and listening address (required for external access) then “Create”: Then, in the list of devices, pick the new device’s “More” button, and select “Co…

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