# OPC server faulted

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/opc-server-faulted/7800>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [January 8, 2014, 10:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/opc-server-faulted/7800 "2014-01-08T10:34:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cas\_Sena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Cas\_Sena](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Cas_Sena)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 10:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/opc-server-faulted/7800/1 "2014-01-08T10:34:21Z")

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Good Morning,  
My plant was down for about two weeks for scheduled shutdown. When we came back up my Ignition Software was also down. My OPC Server is faulted. The fault "Java.net.SicketTimeoutException: connect timed out

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/opc-server-faulted/7800/2 "2014-01-08T16:04:59Z")

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It sounds like maybe the machine that the server now has a new IP address… find out what the IP address is and make sure the OPC-UA settings page and connection settings are all correct.