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RE: OPC UA Connector intermittent inactivity timeout

Posted By Ben M Aug 07, 2025 01:17:00 PM
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Ok, thank you for the response. I'll reach out to tech support also. I did find this Patch note BF31221 which describes "Patch: FactoryTalk Linx OPC UA Connector may return blank or random tag data from third-party OPC UA Servers, FactoryTalk Linx OPC UA Connector 6.30, 6.31, 6.40, 6.50". I know that ...

OPC UA Connector intermittent inactivity timeout

Posted By Ben M Aug 06, 2025 03:21:00 PM
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Every 10 - 15 minutes we are seeing the OPC UA connector drop due to what seems to be an inactivity issue. We are currently only using the OPC UA service to show data (read only). Is there a way to "keep alive" the connection to the OPC UA Server so that the client doesn't "drop the connection" (all ...

RE: Codemeter repeated corruption

Posted By Ben M Apr 25, 2025 11:27:00 AM
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I point both systems to a corporate Activation Server. The container on the original VM became corrupted and when I tried to repair it I would only get more errors. I had found a KB ID: QA59171 article here that I followed for installing a fresh CodeMeter install: https://support.rockwellautom ...

RE: Codemeter repeated corruption

Posted By Ben M Apr 25, 2025 09:57:00 AM
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I recently had this experience on a Win10 Enterprise 22H2 development VM that I run in VMWare 17.5.3. I had duplicated the VM and noticed the CodeMeter was corrupted in the original after several days of using both VMs. I had changed the MAC address for the duplicated VM, but I was on site and using ...

RE: FactoryTalk View SE - Locking graphics that are being edited on Network Distributed or Network Station?

Posted By Ben M Apr 21, 2025 03:40:00 PM
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Interesting! Ok. Well if Rockwell doesn't do it first maybe I can convince the dev team at Interstates to take a look. I appreciate the education. You seem to answer a lot of my questions 🙂 ------------------------------ Ben Merryman Control Systems Developer @ Interstates ...

RE: FactoryTalk View SE - Locking graphics that are being edited on Network Distributed or Network Station?

Posted By Ben M Apr 18, 2025 12:35:00 PM
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We started using Copia for PLC versioning and I have built some repo's in GitHub for certain features that we commonly add to systems. Packaging together the PLC + HMI + other apps + documentation in to one repo that I can point to has been helpful. It has worked pretty well as a better place to point ...

RE: FactoryTalk View SE - Locking graphics that are being edited on Network Distributed or Network Station?

Posted By Ben M Apr 16, 2025 11:04:00 AM
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@Philip Hamilton thanks for the fast response! We do a version of your suggestion sometimes with putting the date or the change being made. It can lead to cluttering the navigation tree and can be confusing about which of the graphics should be used or needs to be retained. I guess everything has to ...

FactoryTalk View SE - Locking graphics that are being edited on Network Distributed or Network Station?

Posted By Ben M Apr 15, 2025 04:29:00 PM
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Is there a way to "lock" graphics from being opened in edit mode on a Network Distributed or Network Station type application? We often have multiple engineers working on a system and it has happened several times where work is lost due to a miscommunication about which graphic is currently being ...

RE: FTViewSE v13 DataLog locking up at 2am on 28th and 29th of March

Posted By Ben M Apr 14, 2025 09:09:00 AM
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We found that an external IT provider for this site had installed some endpoint management software that they had not told us about. It had performed updates and restarted on 1 of the days. I'm still not sure on some of the other lock ups that I observed, but I'm currently leaning towards their software ...

RE: FTViewSE v13 DataLog locking up at 2am on 28th and 29th of March

Posted By Ben M Apr 10, 2025 10:01:00 AM
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You may be on to something. I am seeing a message in the event viewer that was only at the information level (I had filtered on Critical, Warning, Verbose, and Error level when I first investigated this) and it is reads as follows: The process LTSVC.exe has initiated the restart of computer XXX-HMI01 ...

FTViewSE v13 DataLog locking up at 2am on 28th and 29th of March

Posted By Ben M Apr 01, 2025 02:24:00 PM
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Background This may be related to the BF31918 | Patch: FactoryTalk Directory Client and Server losing communication due to high memory usage, FactoryTalk Services Platform 6.40/6.50 and FactoryTalk Alarms & Events 6.40/6.50 I have a site that is on FactoryTalk Services Platform 6.40 and on Patch ...

RE: FT Gateway - How to read / write tag description with a 3rd party tool i.e. Microsoft Excel?

Posted By Ben M Jan 07, 2025 04:10:00 PM
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Ok, it looks like the csv export /import can be done online with only changed descriptions without needing a download of the controller. I can use that when we are backing up descriptions and use the Excel DDE workbook for making bulk updates to the tags. Edit 2025-01-07: It would be nice to have ...

FT Gateway - How to read / write tag description with a 3rd party tool i.e. Microsoft Excel?

Posted By Ben M Jan 06, 2025 05:37:00 PM
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I would like to find a way to back up and update tag descriptions in a bulk way, preferably through Excel. I have a method for bulk updating tag values via the Device to Excel workbook that Rockwell has (see Rockwell Device to Excel Workbook) but from what I see online, the .@Description is an extended ...

RE: Thin Manager

Posted By Ben M Jan 03, 2025 09:29:00 AM
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I haven't worked with thin clients in awhile, but I looked into the manual for ThinManager 14 (ThinManager 14 User Manual) and it describes configuring Log In / Log Out options like "Inactivity Timeout" or "Maximum Session Length" that I think would fit what you are looking for. Are you saying ...

RE: Looking for Updated Excel Save/Restore Tool for FactoryTalk Gateway

Posted By Ben M Dec 16, 2024 09:00:00 AM
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@rbliss Thanks Ron. This looks like the most comprehensive coverage of the available drivers / sample code for mass configuration and backup using Excel. I'll mark this as the best answer since it seems to be the best starting point to build a replacement for the tool. ------------------------------ ...

RE: Looking for Updated Excel Save/Restore Tool for FactoryTalk Gateway

Posted By Ben M Dec 16, 2024 08:58:00 AM
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Thanks @AAN! I will look into this. We are looking for a drop in replacement for that Linx Classic Save-Restore sheet, but if we don't have that then I'll start thinking about rebuilding from these samples. ------------------------------ Ben Merryman Control System Developer @ Interstates -- ...

RE: Looking for Updated Excel Save/Restore Tool for FactoryTalk Gateway

Posted By Ben M Dec 16, 2024 08:57:00 AM
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Thanks, we have a few devs that are more familiar w/ python. I'll keep this one in mind for them! ------------------------------ Ben Merryman Control System Developer @ Interstates ------------------------------

Looking for Updated Excel Save/Restore Tool for FactoryTalk Gateway

Posted By Ben M Dec 13, 2024 10:05:00 AM
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I'm reaching out to see if anyone knows of an updated version of the Excel Save/Restore Tool for FactoryTalk Gateway. My company has been using an older tool that integrated with RS Linx (used OPCDAAuto.dll) for similar functionality, but as we've been transitioning to FactoryTalk Gateway we've had compatibility ...

RE: FactoryTalk Linx Gateway DA - How to silence known clients from generating diagnostics entries?

Posted By Ben M Nov 07, 2024 09:57:00 AM
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Thank you for the response! I use those filters in "Diagnostics Viewer" but that does not filter messages in the live feed "Diagnostics List" in Studio. From what I can find there is no way to filter these messages down: Is there a way to get the live feed / auto refresh in the diagnostics ...

FactoryTalk Linx Gateway DA - How to silence known clients from generating diagnostics entries?

Posted By Ben M Nov 05, 2024 11:23:00 AM
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Is it possible to selectively silence or filter out certain diagnostics messages? Specifically there are some services my company utilize that connect and pull data from the PLCs that generate a lot of connect / disconnect messages that aren't really needed unless there is an error, but we have other ...