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OPC UA Client

Overview

The opcua plugin retrieves data from OPC UA client devices.

Configuration

[[inputs.opcua]]
## Device name
# name = "localhost"
#
## OPC UA Endpoint URL
# endpoint = "opc.tcp://localhost:4840"
#
## Maximum time allowed to establish a connect to the endpoint.
# connect_timeout = "10s"
#
## Maximum time allowed for a request over the estabilished connection.
# request_timeout = "5s"
#
## Security policy, one of "None", "Basic128Rsa15", "Basic256",
## "Basic256Sha256", or "auto"
# security_policy = "auto"
#
## Security mode, one of "None", "Sign", "SignAndEncrypt", or "auto"
# security_mode = "auto"
#
## Path to cert.pem. Required when security mode or policy isn't "None".
## If cert path is not supplied, self-signed cert and key will be generated.
# certificate = "/etc/circonus-unified-agent/cert.pem"
#
## Path to private key.pem. Required when security mode or policy isn't "None".
## If key path is not supplied, self-signed cert and key will be generated.
# private_key = "/etc/circonus-unified-agent/key.pem"
#
## Authentication Method, one of "Certificate", "UserName", or "Anonymous". To
## authenticate using a specific ID, select 'Certificate' or 'UserName'
# auth_method = "Anonymous"
#
## Username. Required for auth_method = "UserName"
# username = ""
#
## Password. Required for auth_method = "UserName"
# password = ""
#
## Node ID configuration
## name - the variable name
## namespace - integer value 0 thru 3
## identifier_type - s=string, i=numeric, g=guid, b=opaque
## identifier - tag as shown in opcua browser
## data_type - boolean, byte, short, int, uint, uint16, int16,
## uint32, int32, float, double, string, datetime, number
## Example:
## {name="ProductUri", namespace="0", identifier_type="i", identifier="2262", data_type="string", description="http://open62541.org"}
nodes = [
{name="", namespace="", identifier_type="", identifier="", data_type="", description=""},
{name="", namespace="", identifier_type="", identifier="", data_type="", description=""},
]

Example Node Configuration

An OPC UA node ID may resemble: "n=3,s=Temperature". In this example:

  • n=3 is indicating the namespace is 3
  • s=Temperature is indicting that the identifier_type is a string and identifier value is 'Temperature'
  • This example temperature node has a value of 79.0, which makes the data_type a 'float'.

To gather data from this node enter the following line into the 'nodes' property above:

{name="LabelName", namespace="3", identifier_type="s", identifier="Temperature", data_type="float", description="Description of node"},