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Rockwell Automation 9301 Series RSView32 Users Guide User Manual

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Using networks

17–11

driver name is RSLinx Remote OPC Server. You
don’t need to specify a vendor or version number.

Access Path:

PLC_HVAC1

The access path is the DDE/OPC topic name in
RSLinx.

The figure below shows how the node looks in the Node editor.

Once you have created the node, assign it to a tag in the Tag Database
editor. The address tells RSView32 where in the node to get the data.

Address:

N7:12

The PLC-5

®

programmable controller called

PLC_HVAC1 has been previously set up as a DDE/
OPC topic in RSLinx; N7:12 is the address in the
PLC.

If you don’t include the access path when configuring
the node, you can enter the tag’s address as

[PLC_HVAC1]N7:12

.