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Custom fields of events from OPC UA

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14 Aug 2018 08:11 - 14 Aug 2018 08:13 #6616 by support

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Namespace URIs should stay the same between sessions. That's what gives the nodes or browse names their semantics. But namespace indices are just an implementation detail, and the server is free to change them between the sessions.

The fact that so many OPC UA users hard-code the namespace indices in their client code is very bad, and we are fighting that bad custom at every possibility.

QuickOPC allows you to work with namespace URIs, and let the translation to namespace indices be done "invisibly" by the component. That way, the namespace indices are resolved again with new sessions.

Please read:
opclabs.doc-that.com/files/onlinedocs/QuickOpc/Latest/User%2...indices%20in%20Node%20Ids.html
and
opclabs.doc-that.com/files/onlinedocs/QuickOpc/Latest/User%2...%20in%20qualified%20names.html

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14 Aug 2018 06:29 #6615 by sergsedeln

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Quick Update:

The situation seems improved a bit. As I use Matrokon Tunneler to convert OPC AE to OPC UA and it works only via remote connection, I decided to try UAGateway v1.4.6 converter to do same convertion and then use my code to read custom fields.

And it works perfectly fine! Apparently this is Martikon Tunneler issue then. I contacted them to provide assistance too.

My guess is maybe (maybe!) for some fields they change namespace in run time for every session? as some fields are returned well and some are don't. I will wait for their answer but seems like no problems with Quick OPC then!

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14 Aug 2018 05:34 #6614 by support

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Hello,
you should not need anything special on the target machine.

For Wireshark hints, see kb.opclabs.com/Collecting_information_for_troubleshooting . If you go that way, it would be good so have two "sniffs" - one with UAExpert, and one with QuickOPC. They both should depict the same situation - i.e. QuickOPC and UAExpert from the same machine, and connect to the very same target server.

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13 Aug 2018 18:03 #6613 by sergsedeln

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Yes, I use there UAExpert 1.4.4 by Unified Automation. And I see them well there.

I will install Wireshark, should I sniff for specific packets, if you can point?

Also if I need to install any specific Microsoft Visual C++ environment on the target machine? On my laptop I have all versions of Microsoft Visual C++ from 2005 to 2017. Even though I use .NET C# I remember the case when I needed to have those installed for another projects.

On target machine I have it from 2008 to 2017. Looks fine actually.

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13 Aug 2018 17:51 #6612 by support

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Do you have some other OPC Client to try this with?

If everything else fails, we could put in Wireshark, and analyze the traffic between the server and the client.

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13 Aug 2018 17:21 #6611 by sergsedeln

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Yes, there is no any exceptions in the valueResult property. I will contact OPC UA Manufacturer for this issue.

I will post here the solution once I find one.

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13 Aug 2018 16:23 #6610 by support

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I do not know the reason currently, but since some of the fields are filled in and some not. it looks more like that this is how they have come from the OPC server.

Anyway, just to be sure, can you please check the valueResult.exception of each of the "field results"? (or, display the full valueResult, which would include the exception info if there is one).

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13 Aug 2018 13:40 - 13 Aug 2018 13:42 #6609 by sergsedeln

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Hello

I got one more issue when I deployed it to production machine. It somehow returns empty strings for the same fields I managed to fetch during development and debugging.

I have a Windows 10 machine (64 bits) and I am fetching this from OPC UA server for instance

  "BACKCOLOR": 8421376,
  "BIG COUNTER": "648966464760702,0422",
  "CLASSID": 8,
  "CLASSNAME": "Operational message class",
  "COUNTER": 453510,
  "CPUNR": 0,
  "DURATION": 0,
  "TEXT01": "531T5205M1/MOT",
  "TEXT02": "Vedlinje",
  "TEXT03": "FÖRDELNINGSTRANSPORTÖR TILL HUGG : Förreglad motor",

When I publish same code to the machine where OPC UA server is running (Windows SERVER 2012, Virtual Machine on vSphere) I see this

  "BACKCOLOR": 8421376,
  "BIG COUNTER": "648966464760702,0422",
  "CLASSID": 8,
  "CLASSNAME": "",
  "COUNTER": 453510,
  "CPUNR": 0,
  "DURATION": 0,
  "TEXT01": "",
  "TEXT02": "",
  "TEXT03": "",

Notice, that CLASSNAME, TEXT01, TEXT02, TEXT03 fields are missing, and they are returned as {null} from the OPC UA when I run it on the same machine.

this is my code to parse fields received in the message

foreach (KeyValuePair<UAAttributeField, ValueResult> pair in eventData)
            {
                UAAttributeField attributeField = pair.Key;
                ValueResult valueResult = pair.Value;
 
                var propertyName = String.Join("_", attributeField.Operand.QualifiedNames);
                if (valueResult.Value != null)
                    result[propertyName] = JToken.FromObject(valueResult.Value);
                else
                    result[propertyName] = JToken.FromObject(""); // mandatory to have all properties
            }

Can it be related to OS? I will run some tests without JToken but it seems like anyway the field may be not received correctly from production machine (same PC as OPC is running at) and my debug laptop (remote PC)

Do you have any tips?

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06 Aug 2018 09:55 #6593 by support

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That's great - I am glad that it works.
Thanks for your detailed reports.

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05 Aug 2018 17:44 #6590 by sergsedeln

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Hello!

Thanks a lot! It works as expected! See screenshot attached.

For your information, I managed to get the values by including the following filter clauses:

// ... some code omited
 
// add custom fields (TEXT01, etc.)
filterCollection.Add(UAFilterElements.SimpleAttribute(UAObjectTypeIds.BaseEventType, "/2:TEXT01"));
filterCollection.Add(UAFilterElements.SimpleAttribute(UAObjectTypeIds.BaseEventType, "/2:TEXT02"));
filterCollection.Add(UAFilterElements.SimpleAttribute(UAObjectTypeIds.BaseEventType, "/2:TEXT03"));
 
// subscribe
_opcClient.SubscribeEvent(
  _opcUaServerAddress,
  UAObjectIds.Server,
  samplingPeriod,
  filterCollection);