Table of Contents

Fundamentals

• Benefits
• Conventions
• Non-guarantees
• QuickOPC-UA Timeout Settings

1. Complex Data
   • Comparison of OPC UA complex data models
2. Security
   • OPC Classic Security
     • COM management
     • COM settings in OPC Classic client components
   • OPC UA Client-Server Security
     • A primer on OPC UA certificate stores
   • OPC UA PubSub Security
   • Security Bulletins
3. Application Administration
   • OPC UA Application URI Derivation
4. OPC UA PubSub Transport Profiles

Development Models

1. Imperative Programming Model
   • Event Pull Mechanism
   • OPC A&E Notification Handler Pseudo-Code
2. Live Binding Model
   • Extracting array element in Live Binding
   • Implementing a data converter component

Features

1. Dialog: Administer OPC UA Application
2. OPC UA File Transfer
   • OPC UA File Transfer concepts
   • OPC UA File Transfer internals
3. OPC UA PubSub Automatic Message Mapping Recognition
4. OPC UA PubSub Sniffing
   • OPC UA PubSub Sniffing concepts

Library Packages

1. Communication packages
   • Using communication packages
   • MQTT communication packages
     • OpcLabs.Mqtt communication package
     • OpcLabs.MqttNet communication package
     • File-based MQTT emulation
   • OpcLabs.Pcap communication package
2. Plugins
   • Certificate security plugin

Configuration and Instrumentation

1. Low-Level Configuration
   • Diagnostics Configuration
   • How to disable prerequisites boxing
   • How to force usage of built-in OPC proxies and stubs
   • OPC UA .NET SDK Configuration
   • Assemblies.config files
2. High-Level Configuration
   • High-Level Intrinsic Configuration
   • Intrinsic Component Configuration
   • OPC XML Configuration
3. Tracing (Instrumentation)
   • QuickOPC: How to enable extended tracing
4. Logging (Instrumentation)

Tools and Online Services

1. Tool Downloads
2. Connectivity Explorer
   • Connectivity Explorer Overview
3. OpcCmd Utility
   • OpcCmd Utility Tips and Tricks
   • Using OpcCmd Utility as OPC DA Client (also OPC XML-DA)
   • Using OpcCmd Utility as OPC A&E Client
   • Using OpcCmd Utility for Static OPC UA Operations
   • Using OpcCmd Utility as OPC UA Client
     • OPC UA Client Application Operations in OpcCmd
     • Using OpcCmd Utility for OPC UA File Transfer
     • Using OpcCmd Utility to access OPC UA PubSub Information Model
       • Using OpcCmd Utility to work with OPC UA Security Key Service (SKS)
   • Using OpcCmd Utility as OPC UA PubSub Subscriber
     • How to publish or subscribe to secure OPC UA PubSub messages
   • Using OpcCmd Utility as OPC UA PubSub Sniffer
   • Using OpcCmd Utility for OPC UA Administration
4. UA Configuration Tool
   • UA Configuration Tool Overview
5. Demo Servers and Publishers
   • OPC Classic Demo Servers
     • Kit Server: Alarms and Events test nodes in Data Access
     • Kit Server: Items for volume testing
   • OPC XML Demo Servers
   • OPC UA Demo Servers
   • OPC UA Demo Publishers
     • UADemoPublisher Basics
     • How to publish or subscribe to secure OPC UA PubSub messages
6. OPC UA PubSub Formatter
   • OPC UA PubSub Formatter Overview

Examples

1. Examples - OPC Data Access
   • How to read an OPC UA node value in FSharp
   • How to read an OPC item value in PowerShell
   • How to subscribe to OPC data changes in PowerShell
2. Examples - OPC Unified Architecture
   • How to specify a deadband (VBA, OPC UA)
   • How to subscribe to OPC UA data changes in FSharp
   • Using QuickOPC with Trill

Troubleshooting

1. Troubleshooting General
   • Collecting information for troubleshooting
   • QuickOPC: How to enable extended tracing
   • Obtaining .NET call stacks in a COM application
   • Troubleshooting program hangs
2. OPC Classic Troubleshooting
   • How to use OPC Analyzer
3. OPC UA Client-Server Troubleshooting
   • How to recreate an OPC UA application instance certificate
   • Error "The specified network password is not correct." or "The requested key container was not found."
4. OPC UA PubSub Troubleshooting
   • OPC UA PubSub Common Traps And Pitfalls

Interoperability

1. Interoperability Testing
   • Compatibility Test Lists - Concepts
   • QuickOPC Compatibility Test List
   • QuickOPC Compatibility Test List for PubSub
   • OPC UA Interoperability Testing with OpcCmd

Unsorted

1. Bonus Material
2. Telemetry Privacy Policy