System requirements for the OPC Router

Installation/Update

The OPC Router Setup installs the OPC Router (configuration environment, Windows services) with all Plug-ins in demo mode (2 hours runtime). Only after entering the license key the licensed Plug-ins can be run indefinitely. Setup installs neither database system nor OPC server for productive use – these environment components must be installed separately. They are connected to each other via the OPC Router configuration.

Computer performance

We recommend running server applications on appropriately equipped hardware (multi-core processor, at least 8 GB RAM and SSD storage).

Operating system

We recommend Microsoft Windows Server operating systems. Client operating systems (64 bit) can also be used for test purposes. The following Windows versions are supported:

Docker systems

To run OPC Router in a Docker container on, for example, an Edge device or Windows device, you need the following minimum system requirements:

SingleCore 600MHz 64 bit CPU with AVX support
512 MB Ram
3 GB free hard disk space

.NET 8

(will be installed if necessary). In production environments, we recommend that you manually download and install .NET 8 from Microsoft before updating. The reason for this is that .NET requires Windows updates, which are not always offered automatically, and sometimes take a long time and may require several reboots. This is not within the sphere of influence of inray. The downtime is kept as low as possible if you uninstall the old versions only after successful installation of .NET 8.

Installed and accessible OPC server

For the connection of controllers, OPC specification DA 4.0, UA, XML

Installed and accessible database server

MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL, SAP HANA, OLE DB and all systems accessible via ODBC are supported. Connection of MS Access, SQLite, dBase, InfluxDB, MongoDB or XML files is also possible.

Connection of Oracle database

Installed Oracle Instant Client (ODAC)

SAP-Plug-in

SAP Plug-in supports SAP systems 4.0b or higher. Requirement is the log-on pad or librfc32.dll on the computer with OPC Router. To use Netweaver, SAP® NetWeaver RFC SDK must be installed.