Using OpcCmd Utility as OPC DA Client
From OPC Labs Knowledge Base
For general information about the OpcCmd tool, see Category:OpcCmd Utility.
Commands, Arguments and Options
Command: daClient subscribeItem
OpcCmd -i daClient subscribeItem OPCLabs.KitServer.2 Demo.Ramp 200
Using OPC NET API implementation
If you want to use the OPC NET API implementation instead of the native implementation(in OpcCmd for .NET Framework OpcCmd), you can do it interactively as in the following example:
OpcCmd -i daClient --!property Target.InstanceParameters.EnableNativeClient=[Boolean]false subscribeItem OPCLabs.KitServer.2 Demo.Ramp 200