Is there a good way to make Ignition act as DNP3 server (outstation)?

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Is there a way to make Ignition act as DNP3 server (outstation)?

  1. As far as I can tell Ignition’s built-in DNP3 driver allows Ignition to act as a DNP3 client (master), however I am looking for a best/good way to make it act as a DNP3 server (outstation) in order to serve data to a third party system. Is there a way to do that?

  2. Right now it seems the only option is to implement an external device like an SEL-RTAC or Moxa Protocol gateway which the Ignition system can write to (e.g. Modbus) and the third party system can read from using DNP3. If this is the best way is there a particular device that you might recommend?

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There's no

No way to make Ignition act as outstation, you'll have to pursue other options.

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Has anyone used Automation Professionals' Modbus module to set up Modbus servers for other clients to poll from Ignition?

Not quite DNP3, but it could be a useful alternative to physical concentrators like RTACs in cases where OPC-UA is not possible or desired. I'm contemplating it for this same use case.

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Not exactly what you're asking, but how important to you is it that this Modbus Server functionality is a driver built in to Ignition vs. say, a stand-alone OPC UA server instance, perhaps running in a Docker container, that acts exactly the same way?