From your PC, use the Niagara Workbench 3.n.nn installed with the “installation tool” option (checkbox “This instance of Workbench will be used as an installation tool”). This option installs the needed distribution files (.dist files) for commissioning various models of remote JACE platforms. The dist files are located in various revision-named subfolders under the “sw” folder.

Apart from installing the 3.n.nn version of the Niagara distribution file in the JACE-NXS or -NX, make sure to install the opc module too (if not already present, or upgrade if an older revision). For more details, see “About the Commissioning Wizard” in the JACE‐NXS NiagaraAX Install and Startup Guide.

Additional DCOM configuration may be necessary on both the OPC client (Niagara) side and the OPC application server side, as described in the next two sections. See Client DCOM Configuration and Server DCOM Configuration.

Following this, the station is ready for OPC software integration, as described in other main sections of this document. Procedures for using the Opc driver, including online discovery of OPC folders and data items (and their addition to your Niagara station), is in the next main section. See Opc Quick Start.