Aveva Plant Scada 2023 R2 read tag with symbolic address from GE 90-30 PLC using GETCP driver

[job517]

Hi everyone, I m working on a project that includes General electric plc and aveva plant scada . The versions are as follow:

Aveva Plant Scada 2023 R2 v8.50

General Electric PACSystems RX3i / CPU type IC695CPU310 / using Ethernet module IC695ETM001

Protocol is TCP using GETCP driver

I downloaded the GETCP driver since it was not included in the plant scada installation.

When I open the "Driver reference help" I can see the address format for reading various variable on the PLC(see attachedd image)

Since there is no mention of Symbolic addressing I doubt plant scada can read symbolic addresses from the GE plc. I have no means of testing this. In the meantime I just use the tagname /variable name  in the address colomn in plant scada . not sure if it will work.

Has anyone tried using symbolic address between Aveva plant scada and GE Fanuc PLC using the GETCP driver?

Thank you for your assistance 

[sinced]

Use an OPC Server if you want to use symbolic addresses.

[olivier_vallee · Accepted solution]

Hi @job517 

The GETCP driver does not support symbolic addressing.

As @sinced mentioned, the best approach would be to use a 3rd Party OPC Server (DA or UA) then use the Plant SCADA OPC (DA or UA) driver.

Kind regards

Olivier

[job517]

Thank You @sinced  I ended up with more than a 1000 errors when writing tag names under the address colomn .

Clearly the Driver does not support symbolic Addressing. OPC is the way to go