Activating/Deactivating the Gateway

When you activate the OI Gateway, it starts communicating and accepting requests from client applications. If a OI Server is configured as an automatic service, the OI Server is started and activated when the computer starts up. Also, a OI Server can be activated by the an OPC client connection request, but only out-of-proc..

To activate the OI Gateway

1. In the Operations Integration Server Manager, navigate to the OI Gateway.

   1. Expand Operations Integration Server Manager, expand Default Group, and then expand Local or the remote computer name.

   2. Expand Wonderware - Gateway.

2. Right-click OI.Gateway.1 and then click Activate Server.

Deactivating your OI Gateway stops it from communicating with client applications.

A OI Server with active OPC clients does not stop until the last OPC client shuts down.

To deactivate the OI Gateway

3. In the Operations Integration Server Manager, navigate to the OI Gateway.

   1. Expand Operations Integration Server Manager, expand Default Group, and then expand Local or the remote computer name.

   2. Expand Wonderware - Gateway.

4. Right-click OI.Gateway.1 and then click Deactivate Server.

5. Read the warning message and click Yes.