

19:21, EEST

November 11, 2020

Hello,
To my great distress I found in the documentation (section Limitations) of the latest version (1.5.10) of the UA Gateway a blown up version of the earlier:
No Remote DCOM Connections
Apparently I wasn’t the first to have missed the old two-liner version of this section (or why would blow it up with a hure picture and more warning texts)
To my knowledge this quite severe limitation is nowhere else mentioned. It is also quite odd, as the whole idea of DCOM (D for Distributed) is to have remote connections.
The text however is less definitive than the old one. Actually the new text doesn’t say it cannot be done, just that it isn’t supported.
Which means that someone knows, at least to some extend, how it can be done.
My problem is that I cannot place the UAGateway at the same server as the OPC server. There is a categorical NO there.
So if no remote connection is possible, UAGateway is useless to me and I have wasted quite a lot of money on it.
So my question is whether anyone can help me with or give me a hint or a direction to search on how to accomplish a remote DCOM connection.
16:02, EEST

Moderators
February 1, 2019

Hello,
Remote DCOM is not tested on UaGateway and is out of the scope for warranty or our technical support. Additionally, Microsoft is hardening DCOM connections in Windows due to security concerns, which makes DCOM connections even more troublesome. See https://opcfoundation.org/forum/classic-opc-da-ae-hda-xml-da-etc/microsoft-dcom-update/ for more details. Therefore, the generic recommendation is to always install UaGateway in the same computer with the OPC DA server.
However, with proper configuration, DCOM technically works on UaGateway. You can find some instruction on how to create a connection between a remote OPC COM DA server and UaGateway at https://documentation.unified-automation.com/uagateway/1.5.10/html/dcom_sec.html. Please note that this instruction is only intended to provide hints for the “out-of-support” use case and does not guarantee a successful DCOM connection.
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