Allen-Bradley Bulletin 900 OPC Server - KEPServerEX OPC Servers

Overview

Kepware's 32 bit Allen-Bradley Bulletin 900 device driver works in conjunction with our OPC Server KEPServerEX, to provide data exchange between OPC Clients and Allen-Bradley Bulletin 900 controllers.

KEPServerEX automatically optimizes your data acquisition based on client demand. Data integrity is ensured with our extensive error handling.

Note: Does not require the use of RSLinx licenses.

The Allen-Bradley Bulletin 900 OPC Server provides data exchange between OPC Clients and Allen-Bradley Bulletin 900 controllers.

Devices

Supported Devices

Device	Note
A-B Bulletin 900-TC8	NA
A-B Bulletin 900-TC16	NA
A-B Bulletin 900-TC32	NA

Features

Specific Driver Features

Specific

Ethernet Encapsulation
Automatic Tag Database Generation
A-B Bulletin 900-TCx Protocol as detailed in Publication 900-UM004A-EN-E - September 2003
Process Value Scaling.

General

Multi-threaded design for optimum performance.
Application Connectivity
Device Connectivity for concurrent devices.
Supports running as a Windows NT Service.
Supports Direct Scaling of device data.
Full Time On-line operation.
CSV file import and exportof server tags.
User Management
Tag Management
Network Interface Selection
Channel Diagnostics provide real-time data.
OPC Diagnostics to view OPC events.
Modem support for all serial drivers.
OPC Quick Client application.
Visual Basic OPC Client with VB Examples.

OPC/DDE

OPC Data Access Version 1.0a
OPC Data Access Version 2.05a
OPC Data Access Version 3.0

Learn more about OPC - Open Process Control

HMI/Client

KEPServerEX has been enhanced to provide the widest range of connectivity of any server product available. KEPServerEX supports the following client server technologies:

FastDDE for Wonderware
SuiteLink for Wonderware
iFIX PDB for Intellution
DDE Format CF_Text
DDE Format AdvancedDDE

To see a list of HMI's and Clients that we support go to our HMI / Client Support page.

Required

Required Software and Hardware

Supported Operating Systems

Windows NT
Windows 2000
Windows Server 2003
Windows XP

PC Hardware

Minimum

400 Mhz Pentium CPU
128 Megs of RAM
100 Megs of Free Hard Drive Space

Recommended

600 Mhz Pentium CPU
512 Megs of RAM
100 Megs of Free Hard Drive Space

Hardware Requirements

For Device and Hardware Requirements see the Devices tab.
Hardware Accessories

Protocol

Communication Protocol

A-B Bulletin 900-TCx Protocol as detailed in Publication 900-UM004A-EN-E - September 2003

VB

Visual Basic

KEPServerEX Visual Basic OPC Client
Complex and Simple Visual Basic OPC Client Examples
Using Modems and Visual Basic with KEPServerEX.
Download the Modem and VB Example with Source Code
Knowledge Base

Help

Help/Links

Revisions

Allen Bradley Bulletin 900 OPC Driver Revisions

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.270.416.0 (09/27/07)

All Drivers

- Fixed issue where server menu buttons like 'New', 'Open', 'Exit' would become permanently disabled when attempting to perform auto tag generation on a driver that had missing runtime dependencies.
- Fixed issue that could occur when multiple items with the same scan rate are read by exception and another item is added/asynchronously read/removed at that same rate. This issue resulted in stale data for those tags read by exception.

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.264.401 (06/01/07)

All Drivers

- Fixed issue in the driver library where it was possible to delete a tag prior to stopping it. This would result in the accessing of invalid memory which could eventually result in an exception that would prevent a channel from processing any tags.

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.210.367 (11/17/06)

All Drivers

- Fixed issue where a rapid sequence of item add, sync read, and item remove requests could result in bad OPC quality for some items included in a block sync read and/or sync read timeouts.
- Fixed issue with Unsolicited UDP Mode Ethernet Encapsulation mode, where driver would stop receiving unsolicited messages after sending a message.

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.190.341 (11/23/05)

Allen-Bradley Bulletin 900 (V4.10.12)

- Added support for 2 new models: TC8 and TC16 with enhanced features
- Added support for DWord and Long data types to addresses that originally only supported the float data type.

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.141.293 (7/22/04)

Allen-Bradley Bulletin 900 (V4.00.05)

- New Driver