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The NETx Servers provide a standardized OPC UA (Unified Architecture) interface. OPC UA is one of the most important communication protocols for Industry and the IoT.

OPC UA installation

The OPC UA extension is available through the Extension Manager.  When the studio is stopped, the Extension Manager can be started from the studio menu Extensions / Manager / Start extension manager...

  1. Open the Extension Manager on the PC where you have the Internet  connection.


  2. Navigate to the "Not installed" tab. Select the "OPC UA". Afterwards, press the "Install" button,



  3. After a successful installation the following confirmation dialog appears.

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Finally, close the studio and reopen it again. This is required before the extension can be used.

OPC UA as Server

After having installed the OPC UA extension, the some basic settings have to done. To do so, start the studio and open the menu entry Modules/ OPC UA/ OPC UA server configuration...

First of all, the OPC UA driver has to be enabled (option "Enable OPC UA"). Then, a username / password for connecting to the OPC UA interface can be set. As an alternative, "Anonymous Access" can be enabled. After having changed the required settings, the server must be restarted.

After the server restart, the Server Items of the NETx Server will available through OPC UA. To connect from an OPC UA client, the OPC UA connection URL for the NETx Server has to be entered. These server URLs can be found within the System Log Messages after server startup. Open the system log file and search for the following entries:

Plugin.OPCUA The following Endpoint URLs are available:
Plugin.OPCUA opc.tcp://<host name>:48400/UA/NETxBMSPlatform Security: http://opcfoundation.org/UA/SecurityPolicy#None
Plugin.OPCUA opc.tcp://<host name>:48400/UA/NETxBMSPlatform Security: http://opcfoundation.org/UA/SecurityPolicy#Basic256Sha256
Plugin.OPCUA opc.tcp://<host name>:48400/UA/NETxBMSPlatform Security: http://opcfoundation.org/UA/SecurityPolicy#Basic256Sha256
Plugin.OPCUA https://<host name>:48401/UA/NETxBMSPlatform/ Security: http://opcfoundation.org/UA/SecurityPolicy#Basic256Sha256
Plugin.OPCUA OPC UA started

Using these URLs, you can connect from any OPC UA client to our NETx Server.

Article applies to the following products:

  • NETx BMS Platform
  • NETx Multi Protocol Server
  • NETx BMS Server 2.0


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