CIMON Xpanels are capable of sharing tag values with CIMON-SCADA through an Ethernet connection.
To use an Xpanel as a data server, you will need to register it as an I/O device in the SCADA project. See the Additional Configuration section for more information.
For this feature, an Xpanel provides two memory areas:
Data Memory
String Memory
Each memory area is composed of 5,000 buffers, which are used exclusively to communicate with CIMON-SCADA.
Xpanel must be configured with a fixed IP address to use this function.
The General configuration page will appear once a new Ethernet Data Server device has been added successfully. An additional configuration is below the General configuration section and will differ based on the device protocol selected.
Device Specific Configuration
OPC UA Server
Item | Description |
Device Name | Allows the user to assign a name for the selected data server device. |
Device Protocol | Allows the user to select a protocol for a device. |
Use All Tags | Allows the user to upload all of the tags in the project file to the data server. This option is only available for OPC UA SERVER and MQTT JSON Publisher device protocols. |
Server Name | Enter the name of server. |
Application URI | Enter the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to locate the asset on a network. |
Application Name | Name of the URI application. |
Port | Assign a port number for the Data Sever. |
Modbus TCP
Item | Description |
Device Name | Allows the user to assign a name for the selected data server device. |
Device Protocol | Allows the user to select a protocol for a device. |
Host | Assign an IP Address for the Data Server |
Port | Assign a port number for the Data Sever. |
MQTT JSON Publisher
Item | Description |
Device Name | Allows the user to assign a name for the selected data server device. |
Device Protocol | Allows the user to select a protocol for a device. |
Use All Tags | Allows the user to upload all of the tags in the project file to the data server. This option is only available for OPC UA SERVER and MQTT JSON Publisher device protocols. |
Broker Address | Assign an IP Address for the Broker Device. |
Port | Assign a port number for the Data Sever. |
Client ID | The timeout feature periodically checks whether the connection is still valid. If a requested frame is not received in the assigned time, it will be processed as a communication failure. This option is not applied if the protocol is TCP/IP. Values represent multiples of 100ms. For example, a value of 10 represents 1000ms or 1 second. |
Use Clean Session | Enables connecting to the MQTT broker using a clean session, or a non-persistent connection. |
Keep Alive | Assign the number of communication retry attempts after a communication failure. |
Use SSL | Allows the user to upload all of the tags in the project file to the data server. This option is only available for [OPC UA SERVER] and [SPARKPLUG CLIENT] device protocols. |
Key Pair | The SSL box must be checked to access this feature. |
Trust Store | Password to the truststore file. |
Use MQTT Passwords | Enable/disabled MQTT passwords feature. |
MQTT Username | Create MQTT username. |
MQTT Password | Create MQTT password. |