Working at a cement plant give a unique set of challenges. Recently I was asked if Solarwinds can communicate with a system like Rockwell and aid us in monitoring Plant Processes. Does Solarwinds Orion offer any type of OPC connectors or do you have any MIBS for Siemens, Allen Bradley, and other PLC components?
We are going to setup a DMZ between our plant process control network and the enterprise network, with the desire to rather than spend a ton of money with a separate product just to send us text alerts, I suggested we try Solarwinds.
Challenges, need to report on Plant processes in real time and have accurate readings of when items are down and restarted. - Should be no problem for SolarWinds. Currently We run Rockwell Automation with mostly Allen Bradley PLC's and they use an OPC connector to its communication over IP networks.
Has anyone done this?
Can it be done?
Is there a developer at SolarWinds that knows what an OPC is?
