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Entering Redundancy Settings ....................................................................................................................22

Entering Other Settings ...............................................................................................................................23

Setting Advanced System Configuration...........................................................................................................24

Configuring the Log File.............................................................................................................................24

Accessing OPC Server Configuration Panels..............................................................................................25

Stopping the OPC Data Manager.......................................................................................................................25

Chapter 4 – Configuring Groups, Shared Points, and Statistics......................................................27

Overview............................................................................................................................................................27

Variant Data Types ............................................................................................................................................27

Using OPC Data Manager Data Files ................................................................................................................28

Opening OPC Data Manager Files ..............................................................................................................28

Importing OPC Data Manager Files............................................................................................................28

Creating and Managing Groups .........................................................................................................................29

Creating and Modifying Groups..................................................................................................................29

Saving and Exporting Groups .....................................................................................................................30

Importing Groups ........................................................................................................................................30

Refreshing Group Information ....................................................................................................................31

Removing Groups........................................................................................................................................31

Adding and Modifying Shared Points................................................................................................................31

Master/Slave................................................................................................................................................31

Uni-directional Points..................................................................................................................................31

Bi-directional Points....................................................................................................................................32

Before You Begin........................................................................................................................................32

Adding Shared Points..................................................................................................................................32

Modifying Shared Points.............................................................................................................................34

Removing Shared Points .............................................................................................................................35

Adding and Removing Statistics........................................................................................................................35

Adding Statistics..........................................................................................................................................35

Removing Statistics.....................................................................................................................................36

Chapter 5 – Troubleshooting ............................................................................................................... 37

Error Messages...................................................................................................................................................37

Browsing Issues .................................................................................................................................................37

OPC Item Issues.................................................................................................................................................38

Redundancy Issues.............................................................................................................................................38

Appendix A – OPC Quality Flags.........................................................................................................39

Appendix B – Device Versus Cache Reads........................................................................................41