Kepware is a privately held company established in 1995 that is located in Portland, Maine. It is the largest OPC server company in the world, delivering 100,000 units annually with over 50 employees. Kepware's SNMP OPC Server software allows automation engineers to easily integrate and monitor Ethernet network devices from their OPC client programs. It supports features like auto discovery, MIB importing, and generating tags to monitor both managed and unmanaged devices. The document provides information on the server's configuration process and contact details for Transcend Automation to address any questions.

1. Kepware Technologies
From Transcend Automation

2.  Kepware Overview
 Why Kepware
 Where and When
 Terminology
 Kepware’s SNMP OPC Server
 Features
 Configuration
 Contact

3.  Established in 1995
 Privately Held
 50+ Employees and Growing
 Located in Portland, Maine
 Delivering 100,000 units annually
 Largest OPC Server company in the world

4. Fact:
Today, Kepware is the most widely OEM’d software product in the
Automation Marketplace…
(Other than Microsoft)
Why?
Quality, Driver Quantity, Product Architecture, Pricing, and Business
Model
Opportunity:
Kepware can deliver SNMP to a vast array of OEMs, Sales Channels and
End Customers. Proven Connectivity between your products and all
major software vendors can be taken for granted…

6.  OPC = OPen Connectivity through Open Standards
 SNMP = Simple Network Management Protocol
 NMS = Network Management System
 Agent = Software module residing on a managed device.
 MIB = Management Information Base
 Public MIB = Conforms to IETF Standards
 Private MIB = Unique to Device Manufacturer
 OID = Object Identifiers
 Managed & Unmanaged = Device with or without support
for SNMP
 IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force

7. Switches Routers Hubs
UPS Bridges Device Servers
IP Telephones PC/Servers Printers

8. Automation Ethernet
Components Components

9. Using the Kepware SNMP
OPC Server software product,
automation engineers can
easily integrate the
monitoring and management
of their Ethernet network
devices into their OPC client-
enabled HMI, Historian, or
Alarm package.

10. Not all Ethernet network devices
are SNMP managed. The Ping
driver works along side the SNMP
driver to help monitor those
unmanaged devices. The Ping
driver automatically generates
OPC tags for each Unmanaged
device defined. These quot;heartbeatquot;
and quot;response timequot; tags provide a
standardized and reliable way to
monitor all devices in the Ethernet
network.

11.  Auto Discovery – Save time by using the Auto-Discovery
tool to search your Ethernet network for managed network
devices
 MIB Import – Import MIB files from manageable devices and
easily map network device MIB addresses to iSNMP tag
names
 Network Analyst – Network Analyst gathers raw SNMP data
from network devices and continually performs calculations
to generate data that can be used, such as bandwidth
utilization and network error rate statistics

12.  SNMP Traps Support - Many SNMP-manageable devices
can be configured to send unsolicited data to network
management software systems such as SNMP. By
configuring an SNMP device to send data without being
quot;polledquot; such as when a critical system tag goes into an
unfavorable state, you can reduce the need for quot;pollingquot; the
network device. SNMP supports receiving SNMP Trap data
via Events tags as well as through defined Trap OIDs.
 Historical Data Attributes –Historical values are generated
by the SNMP driver (not the remote Agent/device) when an
OID has valid historical modifiers appended to it.

13.  Events Tags – A FIFO-based queue to receive
Traps/Notifications from previously configured Agents.
 Table Offsets – Table access is accomplished by enumerating
columns of a table. The SNMP Device driver uses an array-
like notation for Table access.
 Scan Floor property – SNMP devices are typically scanned
at much slower rates than other controls equipment.
Scanning an SNMP device too quickly may result in
degraded device performance. The Scan Rate Floor has been
added to prevent users from inadvertently overloading
Agent/devices with read requests in the order of
milliseconds.

14. A Quick demonstration on how to configure the
Kepware SNMP OPC Server.
Finish

15. 1st you must
create a Channel
Once you have
created a Channel
you will then need
to create a Device

16. If you know the
Ethernet devices IP
address you can
manually enter it
into the Wizard
to begin your
communications.

17. The Auto Discovery
feature allows the user
to set a range of IP
addresses and then the
SNMP Server will scan
the network for
available devices.

18. You can select
between a few
predefined MIB
templates to
import.

19. From the
selected device
type you will
then have the
option to select
from predefined
MIB Modules

20. Imported MIBS and OIDs

21. Once the MIBs
have been
imported, any
supported Client
application can
begin monitoring
the Network.

22. If you have questions regarding Kepware’s SNMP
OPC Server please contact Transcend Automation
Baiju.P.S Transcend Automation
Business Manager #776,1st Floor, 7th ‘A’ Main, HRBR Layout
Transcend Automation 1st Block, Kalyan Nagar,
Email: baiju.ps@transcenda.in Bangalore – 560 043
Mobile: +919986182625 www.transcenda.in