Monitoring with edinn OPC Bridge consists in installing an application named edinn OPC Bridge in the server which has the OPC Server installed, and then it will automatically send data to the edinn servers.

For more information about the OPC standard, please see this page: https://opcfoundation.org/

To use this monitoring method together with the web configuration wizard, the steps are as follow:

    1. Create an organization in edinn and obtain its company identifier. The edinn OPC Bridge will require it from you later.
    2. Configure your company using the web configuration wizard. When you will arrive to the monitoring step, you will be required to introduce a monitoring password. Remember it as the edinn OPC Bridge will requiere it from you later. To use the edinn OPC Bridge, select edinnHIP as monitoring method.
    3. Next, in the computer which has the OPC Server software installed and that is capable of reading your data, also install the edinn OPC Bridge. To do so, download the software edinn OPC Bridge from here: http://edinn.com/en/downloads.html
    4. To install the edinn OPC Bridge, uncompress the package and execute setup.exe. Follow the installation steps.
    5. Once the installation is completed, the edinn OPC Bridge will require from you to introduce the company identifier that you obtained in the previous point 1 and the monitoring password that you provided in the previous step 2.

      NOTE: You can change the monitoring password at any time from the monitoring step at the web configuration wizard.
    6. Once the installation of the edinn OPC Bridge is finished, it will be already executing and automatically sending data to the edinn server. In the web configuration wizard, at the step of monitoring, now you will be able to select from the drop down HW-Ref, the name of the machine where you installed the edinn OPC Bridge. Next, you will be able to select from the DCOM drop down menu the list of the OPC Servers softwares available in the machine where you installed the edinn OPC Bridge.
    7. Once you have selected the HW-Ref and the DCOM, then you can type in the item column the name of the item that you want to monitor. Once the name of the item has been introduced, save the table, and reload it until the state, value and last update, shows you the monitored data.

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