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Can I use Dynamic Tag addresses with the TOP Server OPC UA Client Driver?

Can I pass dynamic tags to the OPC UA Client driver and have it in turn pass them to a remote TOP Server OPC UA server to in effect use the TOP Server UA interfaces as a tunneler to avoid DCOM?

Users that don't typically configure tags in their TOP Server drivers pass in device memory addresses (i.e. 40001, %R0001, N7:0, etc) from their client applications. 

If using the TOP Server OPC UA client driver in conjunction with the TOP Server UA server interface to create a tunnel between two systems to avoid using DCOM, you can pass in Dynamic Tags if you wish into the UA client driver.  You will just need to make sure that the Channel and Device at the UA Client side is mapped to the Channel and Device at the remote end. 

When the remote TOP Server receives the address from the client, it will look and see if it has a static tag that matches that memory address, and if not will attempt to use that memory address to read from the device.  If the address is formatted properly, the driver will read it and serve the data back up to the OPC UA server interface and on to the remote client.

This will work whether your client application is connected to the TOP Server via OPC DA, OPC UA, Suitelink, or the iFix PDB interface. The only place OPC UA is used is between the two TOP Servers to form the TCP/IP tunnel.