Introduction to the CODESYS OI Server

The Operations Integration CODESYS OI Server (referred to as the OI Server through the remainder of this user’s guide) is a Microsoft® Windows® application program that acts as a communications protocol server. This OI Server is hosted by the OI Server Manager, a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in, which is part of the ArchestrA System Management Console (SMC) suite of utilities.

This OI Server allows other Windows application programs access to data in PLCs (also referred to as devices) attached to an Ethernet network. The server can operate in either stand-alone mode or connect with any OPC, DDE, or SuiteLink compliant client application.

This OI Server documentation covers only the information you need to configure and run the OI Server component. See the documentation that comes with the related components for details on their operation. You can find installation instructions in a help file on the distribution CD. Many high-level functions and user-interface elements of the OI Server Manager are universal to all OI Servers, and only the documentation for the OI Server Manager contains descriptions of those universal functions/UI elements. Therefore, reading the documentation for both the MMC and the OI Server Manager is critical to understanding this user’s guide. To read the documentation about the MMC and OI Server Manager, click the Help Topics on the SMC Help menu. An Adobe Acrobat version of the OI Server Manager documentation (OI ServerManager.pdf) is provided.

Note: The shortcut menu items described in this document typically represent only a subset of any actual shortcut menu. Most items in each shortcut menu are standard Windows commands. See the MMC Help for more information about those commands.