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RE: S7-1500 OPC UA connection refused from the office subnet, works from the plant

TcpTestSucceeded False from the office host. True from the plant laptop. Port 102 from the office host, True. So the rule IT wrote must be for 102 onl...

3 weeks ago
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RE: New PanelView Plus 7 shows //// in every numeric display, fine in Test Application

Copied Design to Runtime, rebuilt the MER on V11, loaded it this morning before first shift. Numbers came back straight away, bar graphs move, operato...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Ignition to KEPServerEX OPC UA, BadCertificateHostNameInvalid from the server room only

Right. The client checks the hostname it connected with against the certificate's SAN, and kep01.plant.local isn't there. Your laptop uses the short n...

3 weeks ago
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RE: 1756-EN2T off the network after IT enabled port security, switch port err-disabled

Two things, in order. 1. That secure MAC is the dead module, so the port's locked to something sitting on a shelf. Sticky learns whatever is live, and...

3 weeks ago
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RE: All four OPC DA links to the historian died the same morning after Windows updates

That's the DCOM hardening, KB5004442. Once the server side enforces it, a DA client coming in below Packet Integrity gets refused. Something in Sunday...

3 weeks ago
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RE: KEPServerEX reads S7-1200 tags as Bad quality, channel shows connected

1000 ms scan, 30 tags, nothing heavy. Firewall off for the test, no luck either way. KEPServer log line exact: "Device 'Line2.Filler' block request fa...

3 weeks ago
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RE: FactoryTalk View SE v12 client can't find the HMI server after a PC rebuild

That's the cause. A distributed SE application lives in the Network Directory on your server box. A fresh V12 client defaults to the Local Directory, ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: KEPServerEX 6 S7-1500 items on DB5 return address out of range, DB1 reads fine

Opened their project on the engineering laptop. DB1 has an Offset column, 0.0, 2.0, 4.0 straight down the list. DB5 has no Offset column at all, just ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: S7-1500 OPC UA connection refused from the office subnet, works from the plant

Both certs sit in Trusted on the CPU, checked twice. And with policy None there's no cert exchange at all and it still refuses. Server log line from t...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Logix UDT member added, Kepware tags and the MSG on the other PLC read shifted values

Both care about the layout. Inserting a member moves the byte offset of everything after it. The MSG hands the L33ER a block of raw data and your COP ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: 1756-EN2T faulted, 16#0204 connection request error after weekend power outage

Switches are 999, photo attached. No BOOTP server that I know of, nobody has touched this rack since 2019. And no rookie_ray, I don't know either.

3 weeks ago
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RE: FactoryTalk View Studio v12 opens in demo mode after a server reboot

Nobody ever admits to hardening a server. Glad it was free.

3 weeks ago
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RE: EtherNet/IP I/O drops 16#0204 about five minutes after every switch reboot

Kepware is TCP, class 3, it doesn't care. Your I/O is multicast. Two things: is there an IGMP querier on that VLAN, and what's the snooping group time...

3 weeks ago
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