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Required device properties.

Show Trace Settings

Runtime trace diagnostics properties.

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Advanced properties.

Important: These properties should not be changed unless they resolve a specific issue.

For assistance with changing the Advanced properties, contact GE Fanuc technical support.

Field

Description

Server Configuration

The Server Configuration button field is used to open the restricted Proficy Driver Server configuration. This is needed to configure the Device settings.

Device Enabled

Set to YES to enable this device when the project is started. Set to NO to disable this device when the project is started.

Normal Settings

Value

Description

PingInterval

5000 ms.

Default

Determines how often CIMPLICITY pings the Proficy Driver Server. Enter the Ping-Interval in milliseconds (ms).

PingTimeout

3000 ms.

Default

Determines how long Proficy Driver Server waits for a response from the Proficy Driver Server. Enter the Ping Timeout in milliseconds (ms). A communication error is declared if this timeout period passes with no response.

UseLocalReg

True

Enables CIMPLICITY to access the local registry information to find the Proficy Driver Server ID first. If CIMPLICITY fails to find the server information in the local registry, it logs a warning message and searches the information in the remote node. Setting this parameter to True resolves the multi-sessions issue.

False

CIMPLICITY does not access the local registry information to find the Proficy Driver Server ID first.

Default

DCOMTimeoutThreshold

10000 ms.

Default

Determines how long CIMPLICITY waits to abort the connection to the Proficy Driver Server after detecting that the server has not responded to a ping. Enter the DCOM timeout threshold in milliseconds (ms).

PingBeforePoll

True

Causes CIMPLICITY to ping the Proficy Driver Server before sending a poll request. Pinging the Proficy Driver Server immediately before the poll, eliminates most potential DCOM timeouts.

Default

False

Can cause all device communications to hang until the poll times out.

PingBeforeWrite

True

Causes CIMPLICITY to ping the Proficy Driver Server before sending a write request. Pinging the Proficy Driver Server immediately before the write eliminates most potential DCOM timeouts.

Default

False

Can cause all device communications to hang until the write request times out.

ReAddAsEmptyOnBadType

True

Enables CIMPLICITY to automatically re-add a point to the Proficy Driver Server that was rejected by the server based on the point's data type. CIMPLICITY changes the data type of the rejected point to VT_EMPTY. The Proficy Driver Server will not reject the point based on this type.

Default

False

Enables the Proficy Driver Server to reject points based on the configured data type. You will need to investigate and determine why the point type(s) are rejected by the Proficy Driver Server.

RestartDelay

10000 ms.

Default

Determines how long CIMPLICITY waits before attempting to re-establish a lost connection to the Proficy Driver Server. Enter the delay time in milliseconds (ms).

Proficy Driver Server attempts to reconnect until it succeeds.

ReconnectInterval

1000 ms.

Default

Determines the time between reconnection attempts (i.e. RestartDelay). Enter the interval time in milliseconds (ms).

This time does not include the time it takes Microsoft's COM (DCOM) engine to determine if it is able to launch the OPC server application.

RemoveItemsOnGroupRemove

True

Deletes items from a group before the group is removed.

False

Deletes items at the same time the group is removed.

ItemAccessPathEnable

True

Enables access paths for a given device.

False

Access paths are not enabled.

Default

DeviceReadAfterSet

True

Requests that the Proficy Driver Server read the data from the device.

Default

False

Forces the Proficy Driver Server to read from its cache.

Default (for DEFAULTUNSO)

Trace Settings

Value

Description

TraceSeparate

True

Trace records from this device are written to a separate log file. For a detailed description of the Trace Separate property, refer to Enable Tracing.

Default

False

Trace records from this device are written to the common log file.

TraceLevel

The Trace Level determines how much trace data is written to the log file.

Options are:

1

BIGERRORS

Default

2

ALLERRORS

3

BIGSUCCESSES

4

ALLSUCCESSES

5

ITEMDETAILS

6

DEVELOPER LEVEL 1

7

DEVELOPER LEVEL 2

Important: If the TraceLevel property is not set, nothing is written to the log file.  For detailed descriptions of trace levels, refer to Enable Tracing.

TraceAll

True

Traces all communications between CIMPLICITY and the Proficy Driver Server.

Default

False

All communications between CIMPLICITY and the Proficy Driver Server are not being traced, but setting TraceAll to False does not prevent any other tracing.

TraceConnection

True

Traces connections.

False

Connections are not traced.

Default

TraceGroupActivity

True

Traces group activity.

False

Group activity is not traced.

Default

TraceItemActivity

True

Traces item activity.

False

Item activity is not traced.

Default

TracePinging

True

Traces pinging activity.

False

Pinging activity is not traced.

Default

TracePolling

True

Traces polling activity.

False

Polling activity is not traced.

Default

TraceEvents

True

Traces event activity.

False

Event activity is not traced.

Default

TraceWriting

True

Traces writing activity.

False

Writing activity is not traced.

Default

TraceDequeue

True

Traces dequeuing activity, the removal of the item id updates from the Server.

False

Dequeuing activity is not traced.

Default

Advanced Settings

Value

Description

StartupDelay

0 ms.

Default

Provides the Proficy Driver Server extra time to start in order to process points being loaded by CIMPLICITY. Enter the startup delay time in milliseconds (ms).

This delay occurs after the Proficy Driver Server starts, but before any points are added by CIMPLICITY.

ReadDelay

0 ms.

Default

Provides the Proficy Driver Server extra time to get the initial values from the points added by the client. Enter the read delay time in milliseconds (ms).

This delay occurs after CIMPLICITY adds points to the Proficy Driver Server, but before performing the first poll. If a poll occurs too soon after the Proficy Driver Server starts, values of Bad Quality are provided.

AbortShutdown

True

Shuts down CIMPLICITY communications with the Proficy Driver Server when the CIMPLICITY project shuts down, without releasing any references to objects in the Proficy Driver Server.

It is not recommended that you set this property to True, as it is against the rules of OLE. If you set this property to True, the Proficy Driver Server does not shut down because it does not know that CIMPLICITY has disconnected.

False

Proficy Driver Server does not shut down when the project shuts down.

Default

ForceOPC1Server

NA

Data Access 1 specification is not supported.

False

The client establishes a connection using OPC DA 2.0 methods if the server supports it. OPC DA 1.0 methods are used if the server does not support OPC DA 2.0.

Default

HRBothActive

True

Both servers in a Host Redundant system are active. Setting this property to True results in both servers advising the client, causing more traffic and a slower transition time.

By default, in Host Redundancy environments, the acting master advises the points that are defined to be:

unsolicited.

unsolicited on change.

poll once.

poll once on change (i.e. the server polls the data and notifies the client only of those items that have changed).

Some servers may be slow in collecting the data, resulting in longer transition times for unsolicited data. However, all data is advised and refreshed (unless refresh is disabled) on host transition.

False

Any redundant servers are inactive. Some servers may be slow in collecting the data, resulting in longer transition times for unsolicited data. There will be less traffic and faster transition times with this property set to False.

Default

PingShutdown

0 ms.

Default

Determines how long it takes to shut down pinging. This property is useful if the Proficy Driver Server is slow or has heavy traffic. Enter the Ping shutdown value in milliseconds (ms).

If set to zero (0), the Ping shutdown rate is equal to twice the defined PingTimeout value.

DeviceShutdown

10000 ms

Default

Determines how long it takes to shut down the device. This property is useful if the Proficy Driver Server requires more time to clean up large configurations.

DetectPingHang

True

This prevents Proficy Driver Server from being "hung". The DetectPingHang parameter will log that the OPC Server is down and will begin trying to reconnect to the OPC Server.

False

If the Proficy Driver Server, pings the OPC server and the server has crashed or the connection is broken, then Proficy Driver Server will wait or "hang" for an unspecified time.

Default

ChangeGroupStateOnDeviceTransition

True

Changes the state of the group associated with the device to match the state (enabled/disabled) of the device when it changes.

Default

False

The state of the group does not change when the state of the device changes.

ChangeGroupStateOnHostTransition

True

Changes the state of the group associated with the device when the servers in a Host Redundancy system transition between primary and secondary.

False

Does not change the state of the group associated with the device when the servers in a Host Redundancy system transition between primary and secondary.

Default

ItemAccessPathDelimiter

semi-colon (;).

Default

Defines the token to use for the access path if the ItemAccesspathEnable property is set to True. A space cannot be assigned as a delimiter.

Configure a Proficy Driver Server device.

Configure the Proficy Driver Server.