I am new to both Ignition and Kepware. Right now there is a machine on our floor that is using ignition OPC UA Server to read tags from an AB PLC. I can see the tags in Ignition OPC Quick Client. I am hoping to be able to just read those tag values from Ignition into Kepware as I am not able to access the PLC since its on a segregated network. I can access PC that is running Ignition as it has two NICs one out to our plant network and one to the PLC network. I am wondering if there is a way to pull those tags direct form Ignition to Kepware?
You can, but why do you need them in Kepware? Ignition is an OPC server which by default only listens to connections on the same PC. You could have whatever device needs to talk to Kepware just talk to Ignition instead once you change the port binding for OPC-UA server to 0.0.0.0 but if that's not possible, you'll need to have Kepware use its own OPC client "driver" to connect to the Ignition OPC-UA server. Either way you'll need to change the binding address of the Ignition OPC-UA server.
They way it is set up we have Ignition running on an IPC on the plant floor on a segregated network. It has access to our plant network. We are trying to export data to a SQL database but it is an ODBC database. Previously we have use Kepware to collect data direct from the device but the routing path aspect of Kepware does not seem to work very well and was looking for other options. I see that the tags are in Ignition and wasn't sure if there was an easy way to pull directly from there
If you're using full Standard Ignition licensing, it can probably push the data you need to the database just fine by itself. If you're using Ignition Edge, then you'll need Kepware to do it. But yes, you can connect Kepware to it, but you need to get into the OPC Server Cofiguration and change the Binding Addresses from localhost to 0.0.0.0
