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TN IT250 Connecting to an InTouch application from the Wonderware Gateway OI Server

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Description

 

This article from InSource walks through the process for connecting to an InTouch application from within the Wonderware Gateway OI Server.

  • Author: Joseph Hefner
  • Published: 12/6/2016
  • Applies to: Gateway OI Server 1.0 or later

Details

 

Step 1) Right click the configuration and choose "Add InTouch Connection":

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Step 2) Enter a value for the fields below.  The Device Group Name will act as the topic name when trying to connect to the application at a later time. After entering the information and selecting the application click the "Tag Browser" button to select the tags you wish to make available over the Gateway server.

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Step 3) Select the tags you wish to make available and click the "OK" button.

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Step 4) Click the Device Items tag to ensure the tags were added.

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Step 5) Right click on the Gateway OI Server and select "Activate":

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Step 6) Test the connection.  This can be done using the Wonderware Client as below. First create the connection:

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Next enter the Gateway instance name as your application and Device Group Name from step 2 above:

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Finally, enter the tagname as your Item and click the "AdviseEx" button:

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If the tag has good quality you should see a value of 0x00c0 for the last value in the client.

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