Keeping TestGateway in Synch with Production Gateway - TestbedPLC vs. Real PLC

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I have several dozen OPCUA devices … 95% of them are AllenBradley PLCs. When we are developing on the test Gateway … they all are pointed to the testbed PLC, which is mostly just registers, very little logic, so we can read/write to the tags when we test our applications.

We add a few devices every few weeks, so the list is growing.

I’d like to be able to export from Production and then edit the IP address field for the OPC UA Device connection … so that I can then add just the new devices to the Test Gateway.

Surely … this has been solved before? Kindling looks like it CAN save the device list, but nothing happened when I tried to do a SaveAs. I’d also need a merge the new OPCAUA Devices into the ProdGateway and/or TestGateway

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In 8.1, the clean solution is to set up local DNS names for your PLCs, and use those names in your gateways. Then the local /etc/hosts file (or equivalent infrastructure) would point to the correct IP addresses for that gateway's role. (And for DB connections and other peer systems.)

(Better options in v8.3 deployment modes.)