MII 12.1 and PCo 2.1.5.1

Hi guys,
Hopefully this will be easy points for someone. I am trying, for the first time, to connect our MII 12.1 to a newly install PCo 2.1.5.1.
I also have a Phoenix Contact OPC DA server installed on the PCo server and (I think) I have PCo configured to see the Phoenix server.
All I am trying to do now is configure MII to be able to do a TAG query through PCo. I tried creating a UDC Data Server (no PCo option was available). I used the PCo server's IP address and, at this point, I have tried a variety of ports (not sure how to tell which is correct).
Can someone please point me in the right direction or point me toward some documentation that might be helpful?
Note that we have successfully been using MII 11.5 talking to UDS and a Phoenix OPC server. We are trying to get the same kind of thing working with MII 12.1 and PCo.
Thank you!
-Mike

Using the same 11.5 UDC data server configuration in your 12.1 system should also work (12.1 tag query pointing to the already running UDS).
Swapping the data server port and IP address (or just port if they are on the same server) should allow you to toggle your 12.1 application tests between the UDS serviing up the OPC data as compared to PCO.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
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<s:element maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="0" name="PLANT" type="s:string" />
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<s:element maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="0" name="LoginPassword" type="s:string" />
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Little surprise for you, I got the solution ;o)
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<s:complexType name="InputParams">
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<definitions targetNamespace="http://www.sap.com/xMII" xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/" xmlns:mime="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/" xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:s0="http://www.sap.com/xMII" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
    
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If you want a demo, you can come to my desk ;o)
Edited by: Olivier Thiry on Mar 12, 2009 1:02 PM
Damned, the bold tag seems not to work... So all my changes are between star (..)

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c. I then configured PCo OPC DA agent to look at the Matricon IP21 OPC server and got the subscriptions to work, and PCo can browse the MAtricon IP21 OPC server tags that I configured , so the browsing seems to work via this OPC server
d. Then I tried to fire up the OPC DA agent in PCo that I previously configured to look at the Aspentech IP21 OPC server, and the configuration now started to work (still can't browse the tags)
e. I uninstalled the Matricon IP21 OPC server and the configuration in step d. still worked.
So the conclusion is that the Matricon IP21 OPC server did some sort of a configuration that made the orginal configuration functional, this however now leaves me the question of what did this driver do to get things working.
Now I sit with a new challenge I have PCo installed on a seperate server and in a different domain as the IP21 OPC server.
What I have so far
1. The Same local user on both the PCo box and the IP21 OPC server with Admin rights
2. I can see the IP21 OPC server from the PCo box and access it
But the issue is as soon as I fire up the Agent to run it fails to start with the following error:
ConnectivityAgentProxy|"The requested Performance Counter is not a custom counter, it has to be initialized as ReadOnly.
Below is the PCo Log file:
Date Time| Machine| Thread ID| Process ID| Process Name| Event Type| Source| Message| Stack Trace
2012/02/24 04:12:01 PM|.|8|7888|IP21_OPC_DA|Information|AgentBase|Start ignored. Agent state = Faulted|""
2012/02/24 04:12:01 PM|.|6|7888|IP21_OPC_DA|Information|Host|WCF service is started.|""
2012/02/24 04:12:01 PM|.|6|7888|IP21_OPC_DA|Error|Host|failed to create ConnectivityAgentProxy|"The requested Performance Counter is not a custom counter, it has to be initialized as ReadOnly. Server stack trace: at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.HandleReply(ProxyOperationRuntime operation, ProxyRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.Call(String action, Boolean oneway, ProxyOperationRuntime operation, Object[] ins, Object[] outs, TimeSpan timeout) at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.Call(String action, Boolean oneway, ProxyOperationRuntime operation, Object[] ins, Object[] outs) at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.InvokeService(IMethodCallMessage methodCall, ProxyOperationRuntime operation) at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.Invoke(IMessage message) Exception rethrown at [0]: at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg) at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type) at SAP.Manufacturing.Connectivity.IPCoAgentControl.Start() at SAP.Manufacturing.Connectivity.ConnectivityAgentProxy.Start() at SAP.Manufacturing.Connectivity.WcfHost.Start()"
2012/02/24 04:12:01 PM|.|8|7888|IP21_OPC_DA|Error|ServiceFaultManager|Manufacturing Fault: REASON = The requested Performance Counter is not a custom counter, it has to be initialized as ReadOnly. ; SEVERITY = Fatal|""
2012/02/24 04:12:01 PM|.|8|7888|IP21_OPC_DA|Verbose|AgentBase|beginning PublishSubscribe CommunicationMode initialization...|""
2012/02/24 04:12:00 PM|.|8|7888|IP21_OPC_DA|Verbose|AgentBase|starting...|""
2012/02/24 04:12:00 PM|.|6|7888|IP21_OPC_DA|Information|Host|implicitly calling start on the hosted IConnectivityAgent service contract|""
2012/02/24 04:11:59 PM|.|6|7888|IP21_OPC_DA|Information|Host|using default NetTcpBinding endpoint for internal IConnectivityAgent proxy|""
2012/02/24 04:11:59 PM|.|6|7888|IP21_OPC_DA|Verbose|Host|Service endpoints:|""
2012/02/24 04:11:59 PM|.|6|7888|IP21_OPC_DA|Verbose|Host|SAP.Manufacturing.Connectivity.Agents.Opc.Da.OpcDaAgent is running with the following endpoints:|""
2012/02/24 04:11:58 PM|.|6|7888|IP21_OPC_DA|Information|Host|WCF service is starting.|""
2012/02/24 04:11:58 PM|.|1|7888|IP21_OPC_DA|Verbose|OpcDaAgent|Creating the OPC DA agent.|""
2012/02/24 04:11:58 PM|.|1|7888|IP21_OPC_DA|Verbose|BrowserSessionManager|Created browse manager.|""
2012/02/24 04:11:58 PM|.|1|7888|IP21_OPC_DA|Verbose|OpcDaAgent|Creating the OPC DA agent.|""
2012/02/24 04:11:58 PM|.|1|7888|IP21_OPC_DA|Verbose|BrowserSessionManager|Created browse manager.|""
2012/02/24 04:11:58 PM|.|1|7888|IP21_OPC_DA|Verbose|Host|Running [IP21_OPC_DA] as a windows service...|""

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