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suel
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RE: Excel logger lives on one engineer's PC and that PC is on the rebuild list

Fine, as long as the push target is somewhere that actually gets backed up and something shouts when it stops pushing. A logger nobody notices has sto...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Excel logger lives on one engineer's PC and that PC is on the rebuild list

And who backs that box up. That is exactly how you ended up here, one machine, one person, nobody else knowing what is on it. Put the collector on a ...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Downtime reasons and OEE on a CompactLogix, or let the historian work it out

Historian doesn't decide anything, it stores what you send it. That's the whole argument in one line. Before the design though, what is it actually? ...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Excel sheet off a CompactLogix stopped updating, RSLinx topic still shows good

Then fix his copy, not yours. Open it, set Automatic, save, and get it out of the root of the share into somewhere nobody opens by accident. Worth kno...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Daily part count out of the PLC into Excel every morning, no SCADA here

Second NIC is the right shape. Leave the office one on 10.44.x with the default gateway and put the panel one on 192.168.1.50 with the gateway box emp...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Daily part count out of the PLC into Excel every morning, no SCADA here

Right, so that's all on the PC and nothing on the controller. KEPServerEX with the Allen-Bradley ControlLogix Ethernet driver reads the L24 over 44818...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Excel sheet off a CompactLogix stopped updating, RSLinx topic still shows good

Which machine is the sheet actually open on, and is that workbook the original or a copy somebody dragged onto the share. Before anything else, open i...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Node-RED OPC UA client to S7-1500 fails with BadSecurityChecksFailed, None policy works

Nine times in ten it's the trust list. The tenth, the application URI.

3 weeks ago
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RE: Remote view of a PanelView Plus 7 line HMI from home, IT refuses any port forward

Any of the three she named, and I think you pick the one your distributor stocks. Ask for the MFA option and the audit log in writing. And the termina...

3 weeks ago
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RE: FactoryTalk Transaction Manager stopped writing to SQL Server, cache file at 2 GB

Is the new login actually mapped to the database? Reset password, fine, but if IT recreated the account instead it lost its db_datawriter role. Check ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: S7-1200 ET 200SP "Not reachable" after renaming the device in TIA V17

The controller does not find the device by IP, it finds it by name. Your CPU is calling for cell2-io over DCP, the IM answers to et200sp-bench, so nob...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Remote view of a PanelView Plus 7 line HMI from home, IT refuses any port forward

Yes, it's that bad. A forwarded VNC port on a terminal is on Shodan inside a week, and the terminal has no lockout. IT were right and short with you, ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: FactoryTalk Transaction Manager stopped writing to SQL Server, cache file at 2 GB

Don't reinstall. What's the exact error in the FTTM log for the database connector, and in the SQL Server log at 18:40 Friday? One line each. Not the...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Node-RED OPC UA client to S7-1500 fails with BadSecurityChecksFailed, None policy works

It is. With None the CPU never looks at your certificate. With Sign and Encrypt it checks the client certificate against its trusted list, and yours i...

3 weeks ago
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RE: EtherNet/IP MSGs cross the firewall fine, 1794-AENT I/O in the other zone gets 16#0204

There's your answer, in two log lines. Explicit messaging, your MSGs and RSLinx, is TCP 44818. Implicit I/O is UDP 2222, and some devices use UDP 4481...

3 weeks ago
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