Release Notes > KEPServerEX 6.3.273.0
KEPServerEX 6.3.273.0
Version 6.3.273.0
September 27, 2017
Server Runtime
Fixes / Tag Generation / Serialize Socket Connections
Fixed an issue where the server could not find property tags used within advanced plug-ins.
Introduced settings to allow enabling or disabling implicit tag generation for drivers that support it. This allows users to prevent a driver from performing tag generation due to a property change.
Introduced a manual trigger for tag generation in cases where the driver previously could only trigger it implicitly.
Fixed an issue where channels configured for Communication Serialization and Ethernet Encapsulation with the same IP and port did not serialize socket connections.
Removed the AutoCreateDatabase system tag from the System Monitor, OPC DA Client, OPC XML-DA Client, and OPC UA Client drivers.
Administration
Certificates
Added Certificate Store tab to manage public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates for the ThingWorx Native Interface.
Configuration API
New Triggers / Services / Hierarchies
Added a service to programmatically trigger automatic tag generation (ATG).
Added a service to programmatically trigger project load.
Added a service to programmatically trigger project save.
Added support for creating objects and their children in a single transaction.
Added support for the Accept-Language header.
Added support for multiple error messages within a single response.
Added an error message if properties aren’t set to the user-provided values.
Added support for adding object hierarchies in a single transaction.
Fixed an issue where a valid event log query could result in a returned status of 400 Bad Request.
Licensing
Activation Client
Fixed an issue where the Activation Client would generate SideBySide errors in Windows Event Viewer.
Localization
Fanuc Focus HSSB / Keyence KV Ethernet
The Fanuc Focus HSSB driver has been localized for Japanese, German, and Chinese cultures (simplified Chinese).
The new Keyence KV Ethernet driver has been localized for Japanese cultures.
OPC Quick Client
Arrays
Added support for displaying arrays using the appropriate list delimiter based on locale.
OPC UA Interface
NULL PolicyId
Fixed an issue where clients that set AnonymousIdentityToken with a NULL PolicyId were rejected with a status of Status_BadIdentityTokenInvalid.
ThingWorx Native Interface
Certificates
Added support for user-supplied certificates. This is configurable through the Certificate Store tab in the Administrative settings.
ABB Totalflow
Updates
Added additional options for time synchronization:
Only allow time synchronization when the difference between device and system time exceeds a certain threshold.
Perform a time synchronization on an EFM poll.
AutomationDirect Productivity Series Ethernet
Maximum Slot Index
Increased the maximum slot index from 11 to 15.
Beckhoff TwinCAT
Nested Structure
Fixed an issue when writing to a tag within a nested structure would update all tags within the nested structure when writing to a BC/BX device.
DataLogger
Updates
Fixed an issue where initial logging would occur when no trigger conditions were set.
Fixed an issue where logging an item using a DataChange trigger resulted in using the server timestamp.
Enhanced store and forward storage directory validation.
Enron Modbus
Updates
Added additional options for time synchronization:
Only allow time synchronization when the difference between device and system time exceeds a certain threshold.
Perform a time synchronization on an EFM poll.
Fixed an issue where an incompatible parameter was used in an error message.
Added meter name to IDS_DATETIME_DECODE_FAILED_HISTORY error message.
Fanuc Focas HSSB
Updates
Localized for Japanese, German, and Simplified Chinese cultures (simplified Chinese).
Fisher ROC Ethernet
Updates
Added additional options for time synchronization:
Only allow time synchronization when the difference between device and system time exceeds a certain threshold.
Perform a time synchronization on an EFM poll.
Fisher ROC Plus Ethernet
Updates
Added additional options for time synchronization:
Only allow time synchronization when the difference between device and system time exceeds a certain threshold.
Perform a time synchronization on an EFM poll.
Fisher ROC Plus Serial
Updates
Added additional options for time synchronization:
Only allow time synchronization when the difference between device and system time exceeds a certain threshold.
Perform a time synchronization on an EFM poll.
Fisher ROC Serial
Updates
Added additional options for time synchronization:
Only allow time synchronization when the difference between device and system time exceeds a certain threshold.
Perform a time synchronization on an EFM poll.
GE Ethernet
Discrete UDT
Fixed an issue where writes to strings in a discrete UDT failed.
IEC 60870-5-104 Client
Updates
Corrected the representation of overflow bit in the QUALITYDESC tag.
Modified to correctly set the SU (summertime) bit when issuing time synchronization commands.
IoT Gateway
Communication
Resolved an issue where MQTT agents would not reconnect after a communication interruption.
Keyence Ethernet
New Driver
Introduced a driver to support Keyence KV Ethernet devices using the Host Link communications protocol, TCP/IP, and UDP/IP. At release, the driver includes support for the following features:
Connection to KV Series devices (KV-7500, KV-7300, KV-5500, KV-5000, KV- 3000, KV-1000, KV-700, KV-Nano).
Support for datatypes: Boolean, Word, Short, BCD, DWord, Long, LBCD, Float, QWord, LongLong, Double, String, and Array (for all types except Boolean and String).
Support for device types: Relay, Timer, Counter, Register, Digital Trimmer, and Data Memory Blocked read requests.
Auto-demotion feature.
Media-level redundancy capability.
Device diagnostics.
Localized for Japanese culture.
OMNI Flow Computer
Updates
Added additional options for time synchronization:
Only allow time synchronization when the difference between device and system time exceeds a certain threshold.
Perform a time synchronization on an EFM poll.
OPC DA Client
Updates
Improved performance when collapsing/expanding/importing items using the Browse Import Items dialog.
Fixed an issue where consecutive writes of the same value could result in bad tag quality.
OPC UA Client
Updates
Fixed an issue where consecutive writes of the same value could result in bad tag quality in the OPC client drivers.
Fixed an issue where clients that set AnonymousIdentityToken with a NULL PolicyId were rejected with a status of Status_BadIdentityTokenInvalid.
Increased the maximum channel limit from 128 to 256.
Siemens TCP/IP Ethernet
Atomic Data Types
Fixed an issue where atomic data types inside an array of structs were not generated when doing automatic tag generation (ATG).
Simulator
Updates
Increased the maximum channel limit from 100 to 1024.
String arrays can now be created properly with 1000 elements.
SNMP
Extended ASCII
Added in a new option to display traps as extended ASCII.
Torque Tool Ethernet
Maximum Channels
Increased the maximum channel limit from 100 to 256.
Toyopuc PC3/PC2 Ethernet
Updates
Added single precision float support.
Fixed an issue introduced in the KEPServerEX V6.1 release that caused a delay (equal to request timeout) between tag updates.
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