IEC 62769-3:2021
(Main)Field Device Integration (FDI) - Part 3: Server
Field Device Integration (FDI) - Part 3: Server
IEC 62769-3:2021 specifies the FDI Server. The overall FDI architecture is illustrated in Figure 1. The architectural components that are within the scope of this document have been highlighted in this figure.
Intégration des appareils de terrain (FDI) - Partie 3: Serveur
L'IEC 62769-3:2021 spécifie le Serveur FDI. L'architecture FDI complète est représentée à la Figure 1. Les composants architecturaux qui relèvent du domaine d'application du présent document ont été mis en évidence dans cette figure.
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 5
INTRODUCTION . 2
1 Scope . 9
2 Normative references . 9
3 Terms, definitions, abbreviated terms and acronyms conventions . 10
3.1 Terms and definitions . 10
3.2 Abbreviated terms and acronyms . 11
3.3 Conventions . 11
4 Overview . 11
5 Information Model . 12
5.1 General . 12
5.2 Online/Offline . 12
5.2.1 Overview . 12
5.2.2 Transfer to device . 13
5.2.3 Transfer from device . 13
5.3 Access privileges . 13
5.4 Private Parameters . 13
5.5 Locking . 14
5.6 EditContext . 15
5.6.1 Concept and usage model . 15
5.6.2 Services . 16
5.6.3 NodeIds . 16
5.6.4 Reading . 17
5.6.5 Writing . 17
5.6.6 Writing dominant and dependent Variables . 17
5.6.7 Actions (EDD METHODS) . 17
5.6.8 UIDs . 20
5.6.9 Synchronization . 20
5.7 Reading . 20
5.7.1 General . 20
5.7.2 Reading offline variables . 21
5.7.3 Reading online variables . 21
5.8 Writing . 22
5.8.1 General . 22
5.8.2 Write offline variables . 23
5.8.3 Writing online variables . 24
5.8.4 Writing to an EditContext . 26
5.9 Subscription . 27
5.9.1 General . 27
5.9.2 Subscription of offline variables . 27
5.9.3 Subscription of online variables . 28
5.10 Device topology . 30
5.10.1 General . 30
5.10.2 Connection Points . 30
5.10.3 Topology management . 31
5.10.4 Topology scanning . 34
5.10.5 Use of SCAN function . 35
5.10.6 Validation of defined topology . 35
5.11 User Interface Elements . 36
5.11.1 User Interface Descriptions. 36
5.11.2 User Interface Plug-ins . 37
5.12 Actions . 37
5.12.1 FDI Server – FDI Client interaction . 37
5.12.2 Action state machine . 40
5.12.3 Actions Proxies . 42
5.12.4 Actions, EDD Actions and Actions Proxies . 42
6 OPC UA services . 44
6.1 OPC UA profiles . 44
6.2 Service error information . 44
6.2.1 Overview . 44
6.2.2 OPC UA services and their response . 44
6.2.3 Mappings of EDDL response codes to OPC UA service response . 44
6.3 Parameter value update during write service request . 45
6.4 Localization . 46
6.5 Audit events . 46
7 Communication . 46
7.1 Notation . 46
7.2 General . 46
7.2.1 Concepts . 46
7.2.2 Terms . 49
7.3 Communication Service processing . 50
7.3.1 Communication Service invocation . 50
7.3.2 Analyze communication path . 50
7.3.3 Manage communication relations . 51
7.3.4 Communication service request mapping . 51
7.3.5 Communication service request propagation . 52
7.3.6 Communication error handling . 53
7.4 FDI Communication Server specific handling . 53
7.4.1 Discovery . 53
7.4.2 Information Model synchronization . 54
8 Parallel Execution within the FDI Server . 54
8.1 Motivation . 54
8.2 Internal structure of the EDD interpreter. 54
8.3 Rules for running an EDD entity . 55
Annex A (informative) FDI Server functional structure . 56
A.1 FDI functional elements . 56
A.2 FDI Server extension . 57
Annex B (informative) Access privileges and user roles . 59
B.1 User roles and usage case . 59
B.2 Private data usage . 60
Annex C (informative) Parallel execution within the FDI Server – Examples . 61
C.1 Simple example for a synchronous execution . 61
C.2 Example for a concurrent execution . 61
C.3 Deadlock detection in concurrent execution . 63
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Figure 1 – FDI architecture diagram .
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Intégration des appareils de terrain (FDI) –
Partie 3: Serveur
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ELECTROTECHNIQUE
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ICS 25.040.40; 35.100.05 ISBN 978-2-8322-9310-2
– 2 – IEC 62769-3:2021 © IEC 2021
CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 5
INTRODUCTION . 7
1 Scope . 8
2 Normative references . 8
3 Terms, definitions, abbreviated terms and conventions . 9
3.1 Terms and definitions . 9
3.2 Abbreviated terms . 9
3.3 Conventions . 9
4 Overview . 9
5 Information Model . 10
5.1 General . 10
5.2 Online/Offline . 11
5.2.1 Overview . 11
5.2.2 Transfer to device . 11
5.2.3 Transfer from device . 11
5.3 Access privileges . 12
5.4 Private Parameters . 12
5.5 Locking . 12
5.6 EditContext . 13
5.6.1 Concept and usage model . 13
5.6.2 Services . 14
5.6.3 NodeIds . 15
5.6.4 Reading . 15
5.6.5 Writing . 15
5.6.6 Writing dominant and dependent Variables . 15
5.6.7 Actions (EDD METHODS) . 17
5.6.8 UIDs . 18
5.6.9 Synchronization . 18
5.7 Reading . 18
5.7.1 General . 18
5.7.2 Reading offline variables . 19
5.7.3 Reading online variables . 19
5.8 Writing . 20
5.8.1 General . 20
5.8.2 Write offline variables . 21
5.8.3 Writing online variables . 22
5.8.4 Writing to an EditContext . 24
5.9 Subscription . 25
5.9.1 General . 25
5.9.2 Subscription of offline variables . 25
5.9.3 Subscription of online variables . 26
5.10 Device topology . 28
5.10.1 General . 28
5.10.2 Connection Points . 28
5.10.3 Topology management . 29
5.10.4 Topology scanning . 32
5.10.5 Use of SCAN function . 33
5.10.6 Validation of defined topology . 34
5.11 User Interface Elements . 34
5.11.1 User Interface Descriptions. 34
5.11.2 User Interface Plug-ins . 35
5.12 Actions . 35
5.12.1 FDI Server – FDI Client interaction . 35
5.12.2 Action state machine . 38
5.12.3 Actions Proxies . 40
5.12.4 Actions, EDD Actions and Actions Proxies . 40
6 OPC UA services . 42
6.1 OPC UA profiles . 42
6.2 Service error information . 42
6.2.1 Overview . 42
6.2.2 OPC UA services and their response . 42
6.2.3 Mappings of EDDL response codes to OPC UA service response . 42
6.3 Parameter value update during write service request . 43
6.4 Localization . 44
6.5 Audit events . 44
7 Communication . 44
7.1 Notation . 44
7.2 General . 44
7.2.1 Concepts . 44
7.2.2 Terms . 47
7.3 Communication Service processing . 48
7.3.1 Communication Service invocation . 48
7.3.2 Analyze communication path . 48
7.3.3 Manage communication relations .
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